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		<title>6 Bizarre Objects Made from Real Gold</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Previously, we wrote a blog post about the Incan empire.  Gold was a big part of Inca culture, and they had enough of it going around.  Masks, rattles, cups and sandals made of pure gold were practically commonplace &#8211; some people even dressed from head to toe in plates of gold.  But while the Incas certainly were creative in their use of gold, things have gotten a lot more bizarre since then.  We at Postal Gold have dug up some of the more bizarre modern-day items crafted from gold. 1. Gold Pram Sometimes it’s not enough to be born with a silver spoon in your mouth.  If you really want to spoil your baby, why not buy a gold-plated pram for the little one? The pram is a converted version of the Silver Cross Silver Shadow pram.  These prams are usually quite expensive &#8211; the non-blingin&#8217; versions sell for up to £2,500.  This pram however, was bought from Harrods for £6000 by an un-named South African businessman.  The luxurious pram is covered with 24-carat gold, lined with blue satin, and boasts a fitted sound system for baby&#8217;s comfort. 2. Gold bra Most women are content with a beautiful gold necklace [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Easter Holidays!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 16:22:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Postal Gold wishes you a fantastic Easter holiday! &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>Postalgold – Time for the Academy Awards!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2012 14:42:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This Sunday, the 26 February, the 84th Academy Awards ceremony will be held in Los Angeles.  We at Postal Gold are looking forward to seeing who wins in the different categories! To whet your appetite, we have hunted for some interesting facts and trivia about the Academy Awards.  Did you know: &#160; All winners have to sign a ‘Winners Agreement’ stipulating that they are not allowed to sell their Oscar unless they first offer to sell it back to the Academy for the modest sum of one dollar.  This is to prevent winners and their heirs from selling their award to private collectors.  If you refuse to sign the agreement, you will not receive an Oscar statuette (although you will still have the honour of winning the award). &#160; The name ‘Oscar’ is actually not the official name for the award but a nickname.  No-one knows where it originated, but the theory seems to be that Margaret Herrick, a librarian at the Academy, exclaimed that the statuette looked just like her uncle Oscar, and since then the name has stuck. &#160; An Oscar is not made of pure gold – it consists of mostly tin mixed with other metals. It [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Postal Gold &#8211; Urban Gold Mining</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 16:21:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is urban gold mining, and why is it so important?  Japan is very well-known for its electronics industries, but the country has few natural resources to support the high production and consumption of their goods.  More than 85% of Japan’s 128 million inhabitants use mobile phones, and mobile phone recycling has become more popular in recent years. &#160; According to a study by the recycling firm Yokohama Metal Co Ltd, a tonne of mobile phones can yield 150 grams of gold – whereas traditional gold mines yield only around 5 grams of gold per tonne of ore.  Old electronic devices also contain small amounts of silver, iridium and copper, which makes urban gold mining a very lucrative business. &#160; However, only about 13 percent of electronic items are recycled when disposed of.  The Japanese government is trying to encourage consumers to recycle more of their old electronic devices.  They are also looking at ways to excavate landfills in order to mine gold and other metals from them. &#160; When electronic devices are recycled, gold and the other metals are extracted, melted down into gold bars, and then sold to jewellers, investors and even back to the companies that produce [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cash for Gold &#8211; The Postal Gold Way</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 11:49:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Postal Gold offers their services to anyone who has scrap gold that they would like to sell in a quick and convenient manner.  Your scrap gold may consist of broken jewellery, an old wedding or engagement ring, dental gold, or gold coins – all of it goes, as long as it contains gold.  You can send in your gold to Postal Gold, and it will then be melted down into gold bullions to be sold on the gold market. &#160; To order a gold kit, visit the Postal Gold website and enter your details, including your home address.  A gold kit will then be sent to you immediately.  The kit contains an envelope for you to put your gold in.  The service is free, as well as insured for up to 500 GBP.  Postal Gold takes security seriously, and the gold kit is addressed to an anonymous sender. &#160; When you send your gold to the Postal Gold laboratory, it will be analysed to find out how exactly much gold it contains, and a payment for your gold will be worked out according to the quality and the grade of the gold.  The money will then be sent to you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gold Engagement Rings &#8211; A History</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:53:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gold engagement rings have a long and rich history.  The first use of rings to signify the bond of marriage between a man and a woman was first recorded in Ancient Egypt.  The ring was a symbol of eternity and divinity, because of its circular shape.  The first engagement rings were probably not made of gold, however – it is thought that they were fashioned out of natural materials like leather and wood, to symbolise a connection to the earth. &#160; The people of Ancient Egypt were also the first to wear the engagement ring on the third finger of the left hand, whereas other ancient cultures wore the ring on the fourth finger on the left hand – this finger supposedly contained the vena amoris, the “vein of love”.  It was thought that the finger contained a vein leading straight to the heart.  Ancient Greeks and Romans also wore engagement rings. &#160; &#160; In the ninth century, Pope Nicholas I declared that the gold engagement ring should be a symbol of a husband’s ability to care for and provide for his wife.  Pope Innocent III made another declaration in 1215 saying the same, except with an added clause that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gold in Industry</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 10:53:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gold is one of the most useful minerals mined today because of its unique properties.  It is durable, highly malleable and can withstand many extreme conditions. &#160; Here are a few interesting facts about the use of gold in industry: &#160; Of all the gold that gets mined yearly, 10% is used for industrial purposes – about 400 tonnes of gold.  Most of this gold is used in Japan, followed closely by the USA. &#160; Gold is a good electrical and thermal conductor.  Because of this, it is found in almost all electronic devices, including mobile phones, washing machines and even pocket calculators.  The gold used in electronic devices is refined until it is nearly 100% pure, and it is then stretched into a thin wire that is one hundredth of a millimetre in diameter (gold is extremely malleable when pure).  The wire is then used to connect semi-conductors and circuits. &#160; Gold is crucial in the telecommunications industry.  The diaphragms of telephone mouthpieces contain gold, and it is also used to plate the contacts of phone jacks and connecting cords. &#160; Gold is also used extensively in aeronautics.  It is an excellent reflector and offers protection against light and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gold to Go in Dubai</title>
		<link>http://www.postalgold.biz/2012/01/gold-to-go-in-dubai/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:18:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; About fifty years ago, the first ATM appeared on the streets.  It&#8217;s now hard to imagine a time when it wasn’t quick and convenient to withdraw money from your bank account no matter what time of the day.  But while we may view trips to the ATM as a common part of our lives, people in Dubai do it a little bit differently&#8230; Everyone knows that Dubai is synonymous with &#8216;luxury shopping&#8217;, but at Galeries Lafayette in Dubai Mall they have taken it a step further, boasting an impressive gold ATM, or ‘Gold to Go Machine’, as they call it. &#160; The concept is simple: If you have money on hand, simply pop it into the machine and about twenty seconds later you can be the proud owner of a package containing a 24-carat gold nugget manufactured at a Swiss bank.  The smallest nugget that can be bought weighs 2.5 grams, but purchases of up to 30 grams are common.  The gold prices are updated every ten minutes via the internet, and the Gold to Go machine is well guarded by security cameras. &#160; Although this may sound like a one-of-a-kind machine, there are in fact around fifty others like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Postal Gold &#8211; Golden Seawater</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 11:47:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Image by Wendy Harman &#160; Up until now, around 150,000 tonnes of gold have been excavated from the earth.  It is estimated that we have 50,000 tonnes left available for mining.  However, it has also long been known that the world’s oceans contain about 6 million tonnes of gold dissolved in sea water. &#160; Naturally, many entrepreneurs and scientists have tried to find ways to extract this gold, dreaming of fortunes untold.  One of the most notable of these was the German chemist Fritz Haber, who received a Nobel Prize in 1918 for developing a way to synthesise ammonia.  After the First World War, Germany was forced to pay an astronomical sum of money in reparations.  Haber decided to investigate the viability of extracting gold from sea water, hoping that it could be a way to help his country pay off these debts. &#160; However, as Haber soon found out, one tonne of sea water contains only a minuscule amount of gold.  The amount varies in different locations, but it can be approximated that a litre of seawater contains 13 billionths of a gram of gold.  Extracting the gold from seawater would produce an amount of gold that would, if you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Golden Inca Empire</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 16:56:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gold was enormously important in the Inca Empire.  It was not used as currency and had no monetary value.  Instead, gold was sought after for its religious value.  In Inca mythology, gold represented the sun, while silver represented the moon and copper represented the earth, all of which were worshipped as deities.  The Incas made an alloy of gold, copper and silver, which resulted in a metal that they called ‘tumbanga’. &#160; Tumbanga melted at a lower temperature than that of gold or silver, was harder than copper and nearly as malleable as pure gold.  For that reason, tumbanga was the ideal metal for manufacturing all gold objects in the Inca Empire. &#160; Objects made of tumbanga were used for funerals and other religious ceremonies.  At funerals, the deceased were decorated with masks, breastplates and headdresses made of gold.  Ceremonies often required sacrifices to the gods, and gold instruments were used for killing the  sacrificial animals.  Rattles, cups and sculptures made from tumbanga were also used in the ceremonies.  Inca craftsmen were highly creative and talented and made necklaces, bracelets, sandals and many other ornaments with tumbanga.  There were almost no limits to what the Inca craftsmen could produce with [...]]]></description>
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