A DAZZLING HISTORY

Gold is a fascination that has inspired legends, expeditions and much more since the earliest of times. It has tickled the imagination and charged the passion of women and men for ages. Its exquisite beauty has earned it the pride of place as the jeweler's favorite metal, for nearly all kinds of jewelry. Gold has even captivated the imagination of poets and novelists for centuries. Man's obsession with gold is so acute that there was even a branch of chemistry devoted to ways of making gold from other substances.

Gold has timeless beauty, cherished value and interesting properties that have made it incredibly precious in more ways than one. Over the centuries, it has evolved into such a respected monetary standard that it has greatly influenced economies across the globe. The gold reserves in any government's treasury is very reliable measure of the nation's economic strength.

Apart from being used for jewelry, gold finds application in many other fields. Being a noble metal that cannot be easily corroded even by strong acids, it is used extensively in specialized industries, space travel, medicine, dentistry, research, timekeeping and much more.