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 ==old comments== 
 Las Medulas is not in Galicia, it is in Leon.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by     

 ==Request Edit== 

 ((editsemiprotected)) Could someone put ""Toxicity"" under ""characteristics""? I'm a new user and cannot edit semiprotected articles.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by   •    

 ==Please Dumb It Down!== 

 It's fantastic that all this info is here, but it's total gibberish. I don't know how many non-experts look at this, but lots of it is of that caliber. Maybe it should have sub-articles for the specifics of things like economics and chemistry. There should at least be better organized paragraphs and sections that follow the mechanics of writing, unlike that neat etymology of ""acid test"" in the introduction. Lots of the hard science needs explaining, too. These improvements would make wikipedia much more enjoyable for casual users. 

 p.s. I was just trying to find out why gold doesn't easily corrode/ tarnish. Can anyone explain? 

 == Amount of Gold == 

 This article states that all the gold ever produced would fit into a cube, with a volume of 8000 m3. At a density of 19,300 kg/m3, this gives a total gold supply of 1500 tonnes, approximately. Later in the article the world supply of gold is said to be over 3000 tonnes. Why the discrepancy?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by     

 :Could be that one thing is ""all the gold ever produced"" (1500 tonnes) and another is the total amount of gold on Earth that can be reasonably extracted? Just guessing.    

 with 8000 m3 the total production would be close to 150,000 tonnes. this is the figure that the world gold council gives as its estimate for total production up to 2001.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by     

 == Value vs. wealth == 
 Article talks about gold being a ""store of value"".  I suggest that it be modified to read a ""store of wealth"".  —Preceding unsigned comment added by     

  
 == New format == 

 Article changed over to new Wikipedia:WikiProject Elements format by . Elementbox converted by  (previous revision was that of 23:36, 12 July 2005). 

 Just wanted to add a Gold Blog -   

 Gold global perspective 

 == Information Sources == 

 Some of the text in this entry was rewritten from Los Alamos National Laboratory - Gold.  
 Additional text was taken directly from USGS Gold Statistics and Information, from the Elements database 20001107 (via dict.org), Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (via dict.org) and WordNet (r) 1.7 (via dict.org).  
 Data for the table were obtained from the sources listed on the subject page and Wikipedia:WikiProject Elements but were reformatted and converted into SI units. 

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 ==[Green Gold] Error == 

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