March 17th, 2008
About Gold - Some Delightful Discoveries
Our obsession with the yellow beauty of gold has led us to want to decorate our bodies with things made from it and we imagine ourselves made more beautiful and desirable with the wearing of a dangling earring or a gold medallion pendant. Gold has helped us build up a very viable trade in wearable gold jewelry because of its properties and the fact that it mixes readily with other metals, like copper, which render soft gold harder and more durable. Gold is a great mineral metal for making jewelry as it never tarnishes, has the properties of ductility, (can be beaten flat - one ounce can be beaten out to 300 square feet), sectility, (can be cut into thin slices), malleability, (can be stretched into a thin wire) and has a high density.