Gold

Gold is a chemical element with symbol Au (from Latin: aurum) and atomic number 79. In its purest form, it is a bright, slightly reddish yellow, dense, soft, malleable and ductile metal. Chemically, gold is a transition metal and a group 11 element. It is one of the least reactive chemical elements, and is solid under standard conditions. The metal therefore occurs often in free elemental (native) form, as nuggets or grains, in rocks, in veins and in alluvial deposits. It occurs in a solid solution series with the native element silver (as electrum) and also naturally alloyed with copper and palladium. Less commonly, it occurs in minerals as gold compounds, often with tellurium (gold tellurides).

Gold's atomic number of 79 makes it one of the higher atomic number elements that occur naturally in the universe. It is thought to have been produced in supernova nucleosynthesis from the collision of two neutron stars and to have been present in the dust from which the Solar System formed. Because the Earth was molten when it was just formed, almost all of the gold present in the early Earth probably sank into the planetary core. Therefore, most of the gold that is present today in the Earth's crust and mantle is thought to have been delivered to Earth later, by asteroid impacts during the late heavy bombardment, about 4 billion years ago.

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Gold rally just got what traders said it needed: A new catalyst

The Times of India 25 Aug 2019

Just when it looked like gold’s rally was starting to founder, the Federal Reserve and an escalation in the U.S.-China trade fracas have given the metal new life ... interest-rate cuts crimped demand for the metal earlier in the week ... and Kinross Gold Corp., while an index of global base-metals companies touched an eight-month low....

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Experienced thieves steal $300K worth of precious metal

The Times & Democrat 25 Aug 2019

Within an hour, they'd found four 100-pound drums, filled with a silvery-white substance almost as valuable as gold ... they had returned to the waterway and retreated back into the darkness with the illicit haul — containing around $300,000-worth of the precious metal ... The metal's ability to absorb hydrogen makes it a useful tool in this effort....

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Customs seizes gold worth Rs 56 lakh at Cochin International Airport

The Times of India 25 Aug 2019

Customs officials at Cochin International Airport Ltd (Cial) on Saturday arrested a Kozhikode native for smuggling 909g of gold in paste form from Sharjah ... The yellow metal was ......

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Gold ETFs attract steady inflow of investments in April-July

Business Line 25 Aug 2019

Assets managed by gold exchange-traded funds rose to Rs 5,079.22 crore in the first four months of the current fiscal, a period during which stock market dropped 3 per cent as investors turned to the yellow metal amid economic headwinds ... As gold price surges, MFs hope for revival of investor interest in ETFs....

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Assets under gold ETFs jump to Rs 5,000 cr in first 4 months of FY20

The Times of India 25 Aug 2019

New Delhi, Aug 25 () Assets managed by gold exchange traded funds rose to Rs 5,079.22 crore in the first four months of the current fiscal, a period during which stock market dropped 3 per cent as investors turned to the yellow metal amid economic headwinds ... In April, gold ETFs AUM stood at Rs 4,594.06 crore and rose to Rs 4,606.69 crore in May....

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Powell, trade row breathe life into gold

Taipei Times 24 Aug 2019

Just when it looked like gold’s rally was starting to founder, the US Federal Reserve and an escalation in the US-China trade fracas have given the metal new life ... Yamana Gold Inc and Kinross Gold Corp, while an index of global base-metals companies touched an eight-month low....

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Stack ‘em up

The Times of India 24 Aug 2019

Singh swears by keeping your metals unified and is biased towards gold as she thinks it looks great against the Indian skin tone ... She also suggests layering silver and gold together or chains of different lengths ... You can mix metals but not more than two. Mix materials like wood with metal as long as it is balanced ... Mix metals, a la Sonakshi Sinha....

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At Rs39k a tola, gold is not glittering in Bhopal

The Times of India 24 Aug 2019

Skyrocketing gold price, which is inching towards the Rs 40,000 mark per 10gram is leading to drastic decline in the sale of the yellow metal. Sources said that the gold market has been sluggish after almost a 30% price rise in the last one year. On Saturday, the gold price stood at an all-time high of Rs 39,000 in the state capital....

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Experienced thieves steal $300,000 worth of precious metal

The Times & Democrat 24 Aug 2019

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Bitcoin is Behaving like Gold did in the 1970s, Says Bitwise Head of Research

The Bitcoin News 24 Aug 2019

Matt Hougan, the head of the global research company Bitwise, sees similarities between the remarkable surge of the Bitcoin price and the trajectory that the Gold price took during the 1970s. He believes the current Bitcoin price volatility is the modern-day equivalent of the Gold run in the 70s ... “In 1971, America abandoned the gold standard....

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Gold surges as trade tensions boost safe-haven appeal

China.dot.org 24 Aug 2019

Gold futures on the COMEX division of the New York Mercantile Exchange climbed nearly 2 percent on Friday, as rising trade tensions boosted demand for safe-haven assets. The most active gold contract for December went up 29.10 U.S ... As for other precious metals, September silver went up 37.3 cents, or 2.19 percent to close at 17.413 dollars per ounce....

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Gold prices in the UAE hit new peak

Gulf News 24 Aug 2019

Just when it looked like gold's rally was starting to founder, the Federal Reserve and an escalation in the U.S.-China trade fracas have given the metal new life ... As of Saturday, buying 22K gold will put you back by Dh173.75 a gram in the UAE ... Bookmark our Gold and Forex page to get latest rates in the UAE....

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Instagram Model Pamela Alexandra Holds Nothing Back In Curve-Exposing Barely-There Bikini

Inquisitr 24 Aug 2019

With one hip cocked to the side, she flaunts her curvy thighs, tiny waist, and voluptuous chest in a metallic gold bikini ... She accessorized with two gold pendant necklaces ... ....