Funny Facts » gold http://funnyfact.com Welcome To A World Of Oddities Funny Facts And Insane Trivia Sat, 31 Jul 2010 01:07:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 One of The Most Expensive Gold Items in the World http://funnyfact.com/one-of-the-most-expensive-gold-items-in-the-world/ http://funnyfact.com/one-of-the-most-expensive-gold-items-in-the-world/#comments Fri, 22 Jan 2010 16:43:35 +0000 admin http://funnyfact.com/?p=2675 goldeagle

One of the most expensive and rarest items in the world is the 1933 Gold Eagle coin which sold at Sotheby’s auction house in New York in 2002 for a record sum of $7.59 million dollars.

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Iron Disulfide (Pyrite) is fool’s gold. Iron Pyrite looks very similar to gold.

]]> http://funnyfact.com/iron-disulfide-is-what/feed/ 0 How much gold is used in Wedding rings http://funnyfact.com/how-much-gold-is-used-in-wedding-rings/ http://funnyfact.com/how-much-gold-is-used-in-wedding-rings/#comments Fri, 11 Sep 2009 16:50:31 +0000 admin http://funnyfact.com/?p=2325 rings

17 tons of gold are used to make wedding rings in the United States each year.

]]> http://funnyfact.com/how-much-gold-is-used-in-wedding-rings/feed/ 2 What did ancient prospectors use to get the gold from streams http://funnyfact.com/what-did-ancient-prospectors-use-to-get-the-gold-from-streams/ http://funnyfact.com/what-did-ancient-prospectors-use-to-get-the-gold-from-streams/#comments Wed, 30 Jan 2008 17:05:18 +0000 admin http://rem.homelinux.org/?p=1416

Ancient prospectors used the fleece of sheep to get the gold form streams. Unlike prospectors later on that panned to get the gold.

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