 Discovery Information |
| Who: Known to the ancients. |
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| Name Origin |
| Gold from old English word geolo (yellow); Au from Latin: aurum (gold). |
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| Sources |
| Found in veins in the crust, with copper ore and natively. |
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| Uses |
| Very malleable. Used in electronics, jewellery dental crowns and coins. |
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| Notes |
| Supposedly around half of the world's supply of gold is stored in the United States Treasury Department's gold depository in Fort Knox Kentucky, which is considered to be one of the most secure buildings in the world. |
| Because gold is traded like currencies, it has it's own ISO currenty code, XAU (USD = US dollars, GBP = GB Pounds sterling etc.). |
