What do you know about GOLD?

[Clodfobble]

Ours are both platinum, and while they haven't bent we've both managed to scratch them up pretty badly. I'm still happier than if they were gold though.

[novice]

If I remember correctly from my days as a goldminer, when I sent gold to the mint for assay and sale they would return a cheque along with an assessment of the purity. My gold was always 98.5%pure with the impurity being silver hence this was called queensland gold. Italian, french etc is designated by the level and type of impurity of the original gold before it's strengthened with alloys to achieve 18k, 9k etc.
Basically, gold is gold is gold and all thie fancy names they give it is just a marketing ploy to make you enamoured of an inferior purity of gold.
Like 'white gold', sheesh.

[dar512]

Red or rose gold is very cool, by the way. It's made with extra copper.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Black Hills Gold uses the alloys to make different colors of gold.

The process of making Black Hills Gold jewelry begins with pure 24 Karat gold. It is alloyed with exact percentages of other metals to achieve a more durable karat quality of 10K, 12K or 14K. The traditional pink and green color gold used for leaves and other details is made when copper or silver is combined with the pure gold.

The original design was gold vines with green gold leaves and pink gold fruit or flowers.