Got Gold Fever? Interesting Fact About Gold

"Got Gold Fever? Interesting Fact About Gold"," The unique gleam of gold attracts the eye, enabling the seeker to detect the smallest of grains in an aggregate of many other materials.


Anthropological excavations of Stone Age burial sites indicate that gold was the first element collected and prized by man.
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 Gold carried little value for prehistoric man except to be admired and treasured for its rare, intrinsic beauty.


The earliest record of gold exploration dates to Egypt around 2000 B.
 Ancient records tell of an enormous alluvial gold deposit in Nubia, between the Nile River and the Red Sea in southeastern Egypt.
 Using the most primitive of tools and working to an average depth of less than six feet, these first ""miners"" pried an estimated one thousand tons of gold from this rich discovery.


Throughout the history of man's involvement with gold, the precious metal has been prized not only for its beauty but for gold's ability to withstand the rigors of time.
 Unaffected by air, moisture, heat or cold, this noble metal will not tarnish, corrode, rust or tarnish.
5 Billion years of cataclysmic geologic and climate changes; volcanic eruption, earthquakes, upheavals and deposition.


A relatively rare native metallic element, gold ranks fifty-eighth in abundance amongst the ninety two natural elements that make up the earth's crust.
 Gold has been found on 90 per cent of the earth's surface and is mined in high mountain ranges, in the deeply weathered soil of the tropics, harsh deserts and in the permanently frozen tundra of the Arctic.
 The richest gold producing area of the world is the Witwatersrand District of South Africa.
 Additional notable gold bearing areas around the world are Siberia in the former USSR, the Porcupine District in Ontario, Canada and in the United States the Yukon District of Alaska and the famous Mother Lode District in California.
 Thirty-two states have recorded significant commercial gold production.
 Other abundant locations for prospecting include Georgia, Arkansas, Idaho, Utah, Montana, Washington, New Mexico, Wyoming, North and South Carolina, Tennessee, Michigan, Vermont and New Hampshire.


Gold is an exceptional media for craftsmen.
 Gold, in its pure form is the most malleable or workable of all metals.
 Gold is easily carved, readily buffs to a gleaming polish, can be heated repeatedly without discoloration and joins to itself or other metals by soldering without the need for a bonding flux.
 In 1350 B.
 the Egyptian boy king, Tutankhem, was interred in a coffin elaborately cast from 242 pounds of solid gold.
 The ancient custom of exchanging gold during marriage ceremonies continues today.
 Today gold is still often used in food and has the E Number 175.
Primitive man believed gold contained a hidden, internal fire, a gift from the Gods with mysterious healing and magical powers.
 In modern day Japan believers seek gold's medicinal magic by immersion in a bathtub designed in the form of a phoenix crafted from 400 pounds of pure gold.


Today modern esotericists and forms of alternative medicine embrace the healing properties of gold.
 However, only salts and radioisotopes of gold are of pharmacological value, as elemental or metallic gold is inert to all chemicals it encounters within the body.
 In modern times gold has served as a hedge against the threat of inflation and as a secure and safe way to secret away assets.
 Gold has often defeated the attempts of governments to inflate the currency of their country as well as circumventing the aims of those holding political power to direct the economy of other nations.
 Gold is the only currency that isn't someone else's responsibility or liability; it is more that just a paper promise to pay upon demand.
 Gold has value in and of itself.
 The price is based on pure or ""fine"" gold, therefore the value of gold gleaned in its natural state may vary depending on the impurities it contains.
 Gold nuggets are as distinctively different as snowflakes, although similar, no two nuggets are alike.


Do you have broken or discarded gold jewelry you not longer wear? Now may be the time to cash in on the current gold rush.


To receive the best price for gold you may wish to sell, know the karat count.
 Alloys with lower karatage, typically 22k, 18k, 14k or 10k, contain higher percentages of silver, copper or other base metals in the alloy.


If you only have a piece or two to sell, try a local jeweler or take a vintage piece to an antique jeweler.


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