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Originally posted by Grey Magic
Just drop it on a concrete floor and you will hear the difference.
Originally posted by Edrick
Telling the difference between a gold bar, and a gold plated tungsten bar is quite easy using several different methods using current technology, without using deformation.
Paramagnetism:
Using the gold bar inside a coil of wire with a constant number of turns, at a constant voltage change (AC) it should be possible to tell the specific paramagnetic properties of the metal itself by the following formula:
L = a4(pi)N^2µA / l
LONDON, April 14, 2004 (Reuters) -- NM Rothschild & Sons Ltd., the London-based unit of investment bank Rothschild [ROT.UL], will withdraw from trading commodities, including gold, in London as it reviews its operations, it said on Wednesday.
Originally posted by Sparky63
I am a natural cynic. I think this story is trotted out in the media every time the money changers desire a spike in the price of gold.
This is just my opinion though. I have been watching the gold stocks for several years now and I seem to see a correlation between news reports and fluctuations in stocks. I think theses stories serve a useful purpose to a select few.
Follow-up from Australia’s Nick Laird…
Hi Bill
This from the producers of the video.
Cheers Nick
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ANSWER: COUNTERFEITING OF GOLDBARS
vielen Dank für Ihre Anfrage.
MANY THANKS FOR YOUR ENQUIRY
Das Video ist tatsächlich bei Argor in der Schweiz aufgenommenworden, allerdings in einem ganz anderen Zusammenhang.THE VIDEO WAS EFFECTIVELY TAKEN AT ARGOR IN SWITZERLAND, ALTHOUGH INA COMPLETELY DIFFERENT CONTEXT
Unten eine englischsprachige Erklärung hierzu, die Ihnen einigeweitere Hintergrundinformationen gibt. Der Barren wurde übrigensschon vor über 10 Jahren bei Argor zum Einschmelzen abgegeben;sofort entdeckt und aus dem Verkehr gezogen. Gefälschte Barrenkommen extrem selten vor, unsere Kollegen in den Schmelzen können
sich an keinen Fall in den letzten Jahren erinnern, in denen ein solcher bei Heraeus zur Aufarbeitung eingeliefert wurde.
BELOW AN EXPLANATION IN ENGLISH TO THIS ISSUE, THAT WILL GIVE YOU SOME FURTHER BACKGROUND INFORMATION. THE BARS, BY THE WAY, WERE DELIVERED TO ARGOR ALREADY MORE THAN TEN YEARS AGO FOR SMELTING; WERE IMMEDIATELY DISCOVERED AND WITHDRAWN FROM CIRCULATION. COUNTERFEIT BARS ARE EXTREMELY RARE, OUR COLLEAGUES FROM THE FOUNDRY CANNOT RECALL A SINGLE INSTANCE IN THE LAST YEARS IN WHICH SUCH A BAR WAS DELIVERED TO HERAEUS FOR PROCESSING.
Statement:
The video shown on www.youtube.com is an extract from the weekly German television broadcast Galileo that discusses scientific topics. This particular broadcast covered the topic of gold including testing the purity of gold bars.
The presentation of the scene of (gold) production at the Argor Heraeus refinery – that was put on youtube.com in another context – when seen together with the text could therefore give an incorrect impression.
The false bar shown in the broadcast was a bar not produced by Heraeus; it was sent to the company for refining and detected already at the time of delivery. Compliance Management at Argor-Heraeus is very important and plays an important role at the company. Among others, it has very stringent rules for handling and dealing with precious metals.
Therefore, and combined also with strong and effective quality controls, Argor-Heraeus is able to assure the authenticity of gold bars produced by the company itself at all times.
Internet: www.heraeus-edelmetallhandel.de
Heraeus Metallhandelsgesellschaft mbH
Heraeusstr. 12-14
63450 Hanau, Germany
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