Did you know that you can eat gold? This is one of the facts about gold that can really enliven any dinner party discussion. Or confuse the hell out of your colleagues. Eat your fill in the form of sheets, flakes or sprinkles, which you can buy from certain shops that sell gold.

Gold is not, however, nutritious, which means that it isn’t edible in the strictest sense of the word. But it is non-toxic if ingested. This has opened up a world of opportunities for bars and restaurants who sell gold to their customers – who can afford these things – as a variety of gold infused products.

Gold has been around since the earliest times and it is something that most societies have prized as being valuable. Pliny the Elder wrote about its many uses back in the first century already. And it’s no wonder, too – gold has such a high reputation for a good reason. This is the metal that doesn’t tarnish, conducts electricity well, is a pleasure to work with, and alloys well with a diverse range of materials. This has made it easy to sell gold to people who want to work with it.

One of the number one uses for gold is of course in jewellery. This has always been the case, though perhaps we should draw a broader line and mention that gold has chiefly been a staple of decoration purposes. The other chief use was to support the ‘gold standard’, though this is no longer the case in any of the sovereign nations.

Gold in the pharmaceutical industry

The most unusual use for gold has got to be in the pharmaceutical industry. This is an ongoing practice – it’s at least 5000 years old and surprise! It’s still happening today. Scientists use nanocages, which are hollow, porous gold nanoparticles, to kill cancerous cells. Scientists have been successful in killing malignant cells in mice, according to an article in one scientific journal.

Gold in the electronics industry

Another unique use of gold is in the electronics industry. This is something that only a few outsiders know about. Gold is the best material to use in cellphones, global positioning system units, and television sets. The biggest problem with this is not that these items use gold; the big problem is that most of these items end up in landfills, which means that the gold inside is lost to our society.

Gold in the beauty industry

The ancient Chinese used gold massage rollers on their face – they thought these implements would help their skin to glow, and would reduce wrinkles. Cleopatra supposedly slept in 24K gold masks. Cleopatra may have been slightly ahead of her time: spas around the world are now using gold leaf masks to treat facial skin. It supposedly accelerates the rate at which cells in the skin’s basal layer regenerate. Perhaps this is the Golden Grail of the beauty industry

We live in a world of scarce resources and an ever increasing population, thus the push for sustainability and recycling technology. Gold is one of the scarcest of resources and is heavily demanded. Luckily gold is also very easily recycled.

Refined gold is exactly the same whether it is refined from a gold mining operation or from recycled scrap. The Gold Company believes in the sustainability and conservation of our most valuable resources. Given that most gold ever mined is still around today, it makes sense to reuse gold that is no longer used or wanted. Reduce, Reuse, And Recycle!

In this spirit The Gold Company has launched a sustainability programme called GoldWise. GoldWise is a gold Recycling campaign, which enables old unused gold lying in the bottom of your drawers to be recycled. The broken gold chain you still have or that old dental filling. Something from a previous relationship, or out of fashion jewellery that the kids don’t want.  These can all be recycled and refined and then used to make beautiful new pieces of jewellery.

The growing awareness of our environment and preserving it for future generations has everyone these days talking “eco friendly” and “going green”.

Traditional gold mining can be extremely damaging to the environment. Cyanide and mercury used in gold mining can pollute water resources.

Responsible Gold mining companies have over the years become more eco friendly, reducing environmental damage with improved standards, however no mining is more eco friendly than “urban Mining”, mining the drawers and jewellery boxes in the suburbs for unwanted gold. Recycled gold has all the attributes of a truly green process.

Through the GoldWise campaign, The Gold Company recycles your old gold by refining it to pure fine clean gold. Green gold is clean gold.

 The Gold Company compliments the gold supply from traditional gold mining and Increases the supply of gold in the market. And you make money in the process.

The next new wave in green is gold: so recycle your gold with the Gold Company

There is No Greener Gold than Recycled Gold

The country’s leading recycler of gold, The Gold Company, today revealed the answer to reducing the environmental impact of gold mining, recycling gold. The switch to ‘greener’ gold comes amid reports* in some countries a gold mine can process 20 tons of mine waste in order to produce a single gold ring.

With 80% of all gold produced in the world used to make jewellery, Australians have a great opportunity to make a major impact and not only reduce the carbon footprint that mining so much rock and ore creates but also reach into this untapped source of using the gold we already have.

“Although Australian miners have the highest standards of mining in the world, it is quite shocking when you realise 20 tons of mine waste is produced to make a single gold ring in some gold mines,” commented Roy Cohen, co-founder of The Gold Company. “What’s even more alarming is that in some third world countries this waste includes cyanide and other deadly toxic chemicals used to separate gold from waste rock. I urge all Australians to join the ‘green-gold’ movement and recycle the scrap gold lying around their house so we’re less dependent on using newly mined gold. We like to call this way of thinking as ‘urban mining’; it’s a much better option for our environment.”

“When you consider the amount of fossil fuels needed to move 20 tonnes of earth to produce one gold ring, it’s no wonder our environment is hurting. While some gold mines have become more eco friendly recently, no mining is more eco friendly than urban mining,” added Cohen.

Once you have sold your gold to The Gold Company, it gets melted down and refined into ingots, which are used to produce jewellery. Refining your unwanted or broken jewellery omits the environmental damages and impact of mining new gold.

“I believe there is enough gold above the ground and in our jewellery boxes to satisfy Australia’s demand for gold for countless years. Our records show the average customer has a massive $544.80 of unwanted gold items in their possession. Many cash strapped Australia’s could be sitting on a gold mine and they probably don’t even realise it.”

The Gold Company offers a safe convenient method of selling unwanted gold jewellery, watches, dental gold, nuggets, coins and any anything else gold, silver or platinum. The Gold Company recycles your old gold, silver and platinum. By refining your broken or unwanted gold back to pure fine gold, The Gold Company compliments the gold supply from traditional gold mining and increases the supply of gold in the market. And you make money in the process.

* Figures sourced from No Dirty Gold website: http://www.nodirtygold.org/

Broken or damaged Gold that you will never repair or ware again can be recycled. For every six grams of gold produced in normal gold production, there is twenty tons of waste created. GoldConverters recycles old or damaged Gold of any kind. recycle your gold by sending it to GoldConverters.

We need Gold, So go dig for some. Gold Converters