Precious Metals

Giles Evans

A chapter in ICCH Commodities Yearbook 1990, 1990, pp 109-142 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Gold is very heavy, the most malleable and easily worked of metals and also one of the softest. It is a good conductor of heat and electricity and does not tarnish. It has been much prized since it was first discovered in about 4000 BC and its most important element is as a store of value and it is universally recognised as such. It has a mystique all of its own.

Keywords: Precious Metal; Platinum Group Metal; Future Contract; Investment Demand; Gold Jewellery (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1990
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-11268-5_10

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