Gold and It’s Role In Gold Heart Jewelry

There was a time when there was no Indian Rupee,  or United States Dollar, or British Pound.  What was the currency of choice in the world way back then?  For many ancient civilizations and societies, the currency of choice was gold.  Long before gold heart jewelry became a fashion trend, gold was being used as a vehicle to determine wealth.  What makes this material called “gold” so special?  If you are interested in this please read on…For starters, gold is one of the world’s most valuable and precious metals.  It can usually be found in small deposits around the world. In fact, it is all around us.  It is in the rivers and seas, in the crust of the earth we find beneath our feet, and in our plants as well.  It’s very rare and very difficult to extract, and this is why it is so expensive.  It takes us approximately 2.5 to 3 tons of gold ore to extract one single ounce of pure gold.  It’s not something that you can just go dig up in your back yard…at least not in any large quantity.Gold is also an extremely soft and very malleable metal.  If you take one ounce of gold, and stretch it, it will produce a wire that is 5 miles long.  If you were to take this same ounce and pound it very thin, it would create a sheet of metal that would cover 100 square feet.  It will not rust or corrode, so it will last almost indefinitely.  With properties and attributes such as these, it is a shame that it is so expensive…