Declaration of Responsibility and Sustainability Principles. Gold Industry Commits.
The gold industry has come together, convened by LBMA (LBMA is the world’s independent authority for precious metals and sets standards that uphold trust in the precious metals markets) and and World Gold Council, to sign a Declaration of Responsibility and Sustainability Principles which formally…Read More
Gold Jewellery.
Throughout history, gold has been treasured for its natural beauty and radiance. For this reason, many cultures have imagined gold to represent the sun. Colour. Yellow gold jewellery is still the most popular colour, but today gold is available in a diverse palette. The process…Read More
Empire Metals in new Eclipse-Gindalbie gold project.
Empire Metals Ltd said a recently completed drilling programme at the Eclipse-Gindalbie gold project in Western Australia returned multiple significant intercepts. The drilling programme of 26 holes focused mainly on extending the known mineralised trends, along strike and at depth, around some of the historical…Read More
The classical standard of gold.
The Gold Standard was a system under which nearly all countries fixed the value of their currencies in terms of a specified amount of gold, or linked their currency to that of a country which did so. Domestic currencies were freely convertible into gold at…Read More
Interesting facts about gold.
If all of the existing gold in the world was pulled into a 5 micron thick wire, it could wrap around the world 11.2 million times. The boiling point of gold is 2808 degrees centigrade. There are just over 31 grams in a troy ounce…Read More