Gold (37 photos)

Gold, from the very beginning of the history is very much appreciated.
The recent rise in gold prices was actually a slight 8% less than in 2001.
In the history of mankind produced about 161,000 tons of gold, more than half in just the last 50 years.
Users gold mined since time immemorial.
With gold mankind has faced in the V th. BC. e. in Neolithic due to its spread in the native state.
Gold is almost lost in the process of historical cataclysms, but only accumulated and refiner. Currently, the world bank gold reserves are estimated at 32 thousand. Tonnes (if all this gold fuse together, get a cube with sides just 12 m).

Visitors to the Museum of gold As for the world's largest gold ingot weighing 220 kg (more than $ 7, 8 mln. US dollars at the prices of today)





Egyptian coin 1095 BC



Statue of a bird of prey of gold and silver on display in Tokyo.



Craftsman making gold jewelry. Jewelry Factory, Calcutta, India.



Spoon full of golden leaves, ready for use, along with sushi.



Children from the Turkana district of Kanukurdio, screened rock, earning his family to eat.



Buddha statue made of pure gold. Tokyo, Ginza Tanaka.



Trays with gold ingots, room for weighing and packaging. Krasnoyarsk plant Krastsvetmet.



Lombard pricing.



Showcase store in Hong Kong, gold figurines for sale.



Colombian miners, mine precious metals on the river Dagan, province of Saragossa.
8000 miners work illegally to support their families.



And this is what they bring buyers-up.



The same David Booth with his treasure.



Chris Johnson «Tennessee Titans» sitting on the bench in a game against San Francisco.



Miners with trolley rock mined in the mine near San Jose artisanal.
About 600 miners informally dig a small amount of gold in an abandoned mine on a daily basis.



The illegal mine in Brazil in the forest of the national park.



Creation titled «Relief Eponge», put up for auction.
Approximate price of 5, 7 to 8 million. Euro.



Models Disney animated film "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" at the Tokyo show.
An estimated 30 million. Yen (300,000 US dollars).



Dumper, gold mines Victor, Colorado sata.



Melting of gold, Colorado.



Set to absorb carbon from the gold and processing it into sodium cyanide.
Ltd. AngloGold Ashinati Ltd, Colorado.



Berlin International Film Festival.
Gold-plated bears - awards.



Rocks containing copper and gold.



Woman collecting mud from the bottom, under the overhanging bank, for further washing.
An employee with a good scenario for the day can wash about 1, 5-2 grams of gold and earn 275,000 rupees (28 $).
Indonesia.



A resident of the village of the district Pide, Indonesia, washes gold dust and sand.



Bulgarian archaeologist Veselin Ignatov from the ancient Greek silver plated cup, depicting the Greek god of love Eros.



Illegal gold mining on Mount Tumpang Pete, Indonesia.



Search gold grains.
Ibid.



Gold model village at an exhibition in Tokyo.
Vycotoy 30 cm, 15 kg of pure gold, the price - 130 million yen (1, 3 million $)



And remove impurities from the gold in the melting furnace.



Production of ingots, mint Mold & Stoler, New York.



Gold bullion Ginza Tanaka, Tokyo.



Drawing ornament on the gold ornament.
India, Chandigarh.



Hu Jintao, Jiang Zemin, Deng Xiaoping and Mao Zedong.
The exhibition of gold in Beijing.



Devices for moving gold ore from the Irrawaddy River, Myanmar.



General view of the pit gold-copper mine. Australia.



Grains of refined gold, which come to the mint in New York to be melted into ingots.

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