Gold

Author : Matthew Hart
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781451650112

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Gold by Matthew Hart Pdf

From the award-winning author of Diamond: A blazing exploration of the human love affair with gold that “combines the engaging style of a travel narrative with sharp-eyed journalistic exposé” (Publishers Weekly, starred review). In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, the price of gold skyrocketed—in three years more than doubling from $800 an ounce to $1900. This massive spike drove an unprecedented global gold-mining and exploration boom, much bigger than the gold rush of the 1800s. In Gold, acclaimed author Matthew Hart takes you on an unforgettable journey around the world and through history to tell the extraordinary story of how gold became the world’s most precious commodity. Beginning with a page-turning report from the crime-ridden inferno of the world’s deepest mine, Hart traveled around the world to the sites of the hottest action in gold today, from the biggest new mine in China, to the highly secretive London gold exchange, and the lair of the world’s most powerful gold trader in Geneva, Switzerland. He profiles the leaders of the gold market today, the nature of the current boom, and the likely prospects for the future. From the earliest civilizations, when gold was an icon of sacred and kingly power, Hart tracks its evolution, through conquest, murder, and international mayhem, into the speculative casino-chip that the metal has become. He ends by telling the story of the massive flows of gold that have occurred in the wake of the financial crisis and what the world’s leading experts are saying about the profound changes underway in the gold market and the prospects for the future. “Compelling, stylish, and impressively researched” (The Boston Globe), Gold is a wonderful historical odyssey with important implications for today’s global economy.

Author : Pierre Lassonde
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Gold
ISBN : 0140133976

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The Gold Book by Pierre Lassonde Pdf

Author : Arne Wittstock,Jürgen Biener,Jonah Erlebacher,Marcus Bäumer
Publisher : Royal Society of Chemistry
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-28
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781849735285

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Nanoporous Gold by Arne Wittstock,Jürgen Biener,Jonah Erlebacher,Marcus Bäumer Pdf

High-surface-area materials have recently attracted significant interest due to potential applications in various fields such as electrochemistry and catalysis, gas-phase catalysis, optics, sensors and actuators, energy harvesting and storage. In contrast to classical materials the properties of high-surface-area materials are no longer determined by their bulk, but by their nanoscale architecture. Nanoporous gold (np-Au) represents the fascinating class of mesoporous metals that have been intensively investigated in recent years. The current interest and the increasing number of scientific publications show that np-Au by itself is an outstanding nano-material that justifies a book devoted to all aspects of its properties and applications. The resulting publication is a discussion of this unique nano-material and is an accessible and comprehensive introduction to the field. The book provides a broad, multi-disciplinary platform to learn more about the properties of nanoporous gold from an inter-disciplinary perspective. It starts with an introduction and overview of state-of-the-art applications and techniques characterizing this material and its applications. It then covers the progress in research within the last years. The chapters are in-depth overviews written by the world's leading scientists in the particular field. Each chapter covers one technique or application so that the reader can easily target their favoured topic and will get the latest and state-of-the-art information in the field.

Author : Marc Flandreau
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2004-03-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780191531552

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The Glitter of Gold by Marc Flandreau Pdf

This book studies the so far unexplored operation of the international monetary system that prevailed before the emergence of the international gold standard in 1873. Conventional wisdom has it that the emergence of gold as a global anchor was both an inescapable and desirable evolution, given the exchange rate stability it provided and Britain's economic predominance. This study draws on a wealth of archival sources and abundant new statistical evidence (fully detailed in the appendix) to demonstrate that global exchange rate stability always prevailed before the making of the gold standard. This was despite the heterogeneity among national monetary regimes, based on gold, silver, or both. The reason for the stability before the establishment of the gold standard is France's bimetallic system. France, by being in a position to trade gold for silver, and vice versa, effectively pegged the exchange rate between gold and silver at its legal ratio of 15.5. Part I of the book studies exactly how this mechanism worked. Part II focuses on the respective behaviour of private concerns and arbitrageurs on the one hand, and authorities such as the Bank of France on the other hand, in order to underline the constraints and opportunities that were associated with bimetallism as an international regime. Finally, Part III provides a new view on the collapse of bimetallism and its replacement by a gold standard. It is argued that bimetallism might well have survived, and that the emergence of the gold standard was by no means inescapable. Rather, it resulted from a massive coordination failure at both national and international levels - a failure that was a preview of the interwar collapse of the gold standard.

Author : Simon James Bytheway,Mark Metzler
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501706509

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Central Banks and Gold by Simon James Bytheway,Mark Metzler Pdf

In recent decades, Tokyo, London, and New York have been the sites of credit bubbles of historically unprecedented magnitude. Central bankers have enjoyed almost unparalleled power and autonomy. They have cooperated to construct and preserve towering structures of debt, reshaping relations of power and ownership around the world. In Central Banks and Gold, Simon James Bytheway and Mark Metzler explore how this financialized form of globalism took shape a century ago, when Tokyo joined London and New York as a major financial center.As revealed here for the first time, close cooperation between central banks began along an unexpected axis, between London and Tokyo, around the year 1900, with the Bank of England's secret use of large Bank of Japan funds to intervene in the London markets. Central-bank cooperation became multilateral during World War I—the moment when Japan first emerged as a creditor country. In 1919 and 1920, as Japan, Great Britain, and the United States adopted deflation policies, the results of cooperation were realized in the world's first globally coordinated program of monetary policy. It was also in 1920 that Wall Street bankers moved to establish closer ties with Tokyo. Bytheway and Metzler tell the story of how the first age of central-bank power and pride ended in the disaster of the Great Depression, when a rush for gold brought the system crashing down. In all of this, we see also the quiet but surprisingly central place of Japan. We see it again today, in the way that Japan has unwillingly led the world into a new age of post-bubble economics.

Author : Rodolphe Antoine
Publisher : MDPI
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783039285501

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Supramolecular Gold Chemistry by Rodolphe Antoine Pdf

This book is about supramolecular gold chemistry. This book provides a unique international forum aimed at covering a broad description of results involving the supramolecular chemistry of gold with a special focus on the gold–sulfur interface leading to hybrid materials ranging from gold–thiolate complexes to thiolate-protected gold nanoclusters and gold–thiolate supramolecular assemblies or nanoparticles. The role of thiolates on the structure and optical features of gold nanohybrid systems (ranging from plasmonic gold nanoparticles and fluorescent gold nanoclusters to self-assembled Au-containing thiolated coordination polymers) is highlighted in the 12 papers presented in this book.

Author : Prashant Kesharwani
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 573 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-15
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780443190629

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Gold Nanoparticles for Drug Delivery by Prashant Kesharwani Pdf

Gold Nanoparticles for Drug Delivery discusses the synthesis and characterization of gold nanoparticles (AuNPs), presenting an historical introduction to the developments in the area, discussing methods and characterization parameters, covering targeted delivery strategies, treatment of cancer, CNS conditions, infectious diseases, HIV/AIDS infection, wound healing and tissue regeneration, dentistry, gene delivery, and its photo properties used in diagnostic and therapies, and finally presenting regulatory aspects such as theranostic applications, vaccine development, toxicity, and the translation of research to marketable products. This book is a complete reference for researchers in nanotechnology drug delivery and pharmaceutical disciplines. Researchers in pharmaceutical industries, especially those involved in the use of gold nanoparticles in the field of drug delivery, diagnosis, targeted and early therapies will also benefit from this book. Covers gold nanoparticles' characterization and synthesis techniques related to drug delivery Focuses on targeting strategies using gold nanoparticles for efficient drug delivery Provides a consolidated overview of applications of gold nanoparticles for drug delivery to several systems and conditions

Author : Clovis McCallister
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781973622819

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Gold from Seven Cities by Clovis McCallister Pdf

Seven ships filled with gold, silver, and treasures of the Church sail from Hispania to escape invading Moors in the seventh century, going westward where the wind carries them under divine guidance. The foreigners and natives settle in an area now called Chaco Canyon to establish a religious center and build seven cities of gold and silver that historians and treasure hunters still talk about and seek. The people, and their cities of gold, disappear without a trace centuries before fortune hunters come seeking the cities and the wealth they contain. Only a select few people remain to oversee the secrets of the ancient people, their treasure, and the plan for using that treasure.

Author : Dean Heskin,Jerome R. Corsi, Ph.D.
Publisher : Post Hill Press
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2023-05-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9798888450260

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How the Coming Global Crash Will Create a Historic Gold Rush by Dean Heskin,Jerome R. Corsi, Ph.D. Pdf

How the Coming Global Crash Will Create a Historic Gold Rush demonstrates the causal relationship between a deep economic crisis and a historical increase in the price of gold. Through the last years of his presidency, Jimmy Carter struggled with the legacy of the OPEC oil embargo causing large lines at the gas pump to pay surging gasoline costs. After the 1973 embargo, the price of oil quadrupled, forcing the United States into a deep recession that lasted into 1975. Gold surged during this period of stagflation, the unusual economic condition in which stagnant economic growth and high inflation coincide. In 1980, when Ronald Reagan was elected president, gold hit a high of $843/ounce. In 2008–2009, the collapse of the subprime mortgage market and the bursting of the real estate bubble caused a Great Recession in which prestigious financial institutions failed across the globe and serious investors poured their money into gold to maintain their total asset value. In 2010, gold’s price hit a high of $1,426/ounce. In the wake of the economic collapse caused by the COVID-19 lockdown, gold hit a yearly high of $2,058.40 in 2020, on the way to an all-time high of $2,074.60 on March 8, 2022. The global economy faces an economic meltdown in 2023, the magnitude of which we have not seen since the Great Depression in the 1930s. When the bubble in hedge funds and derivative contracts bursts, financial institutions worldwide will have to absorb billions and possibly even trillions of dollars in losses, an amount of money almost inconceivable in any other era of global financial history. In this book, Dean Heskin and Jerome R. Corsi explain the reality of 2022–2023: the dollar may collapse, and mounting unemployment and plummeting property values may accelerate the near disappearance of the middle class. In the dystopian world we are entering, gold and silver may be the only “money” that will hold its value.

Author : Royal School of Mines (Great Britain)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1853
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0021948596

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Lectures on Gold for the instruction of emigrants about to proceed to Australia. By J. Beete Jukes and others ... Delivered at the Museum of Practical Geology by Royal School of Mines (Great Britain) Pdf

Author : Penny,Jeffrey,Gillian Garbus
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781546205876

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Mining New Gold—Managing Your Business Data by Penny,Jeffrey,Gillian Garbus Pdf

Data 1. What is the data? 2. Can data be validated? Is it accurate? 3. How do we store the data? 4. Is there a way to make money on the data? 5. How does changing expectations of data change your companys future? In this book, we will be reviewing these issues to help business leaders create a path to protecting, using, and storing data that makes sense and to save money, time, and effort.

Author : William Roger Miller,W. R. Miller,Geological Survey (U.S.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Gold ores
ISBN : ERDC:35925000908464

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Investigation of the Rois Malk Epithermal Gold System, Republic of Palau by William Roger Miller,W. R. Miller,Geological Survey (U.S.) Pdf

Detailed geological and geochemical investigations of the Rois Malk area, Republic of Palau, resulted in the identification of an epithermal gold system in a 1.5 x 1 km area.

Author : John James
Publisher : Gateway
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780575105812

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Not For All The Gold In Ireland by John James Pdf

The hard years on the Amber Road had changed Photinus the Greek. He had won a fortune and lost an eye and married various wives and become a God. His cousin Philebus had played the game of the pea and the three cups; now, reluctantly, Photinus - Votan - set off to retrieve the Deed of Monopoly to all the Gold of Ireland. Sequel to the remarkable VOTAN, NOT FOR ALL THE GOLD IN IRELAND continues the adventures of John James' reluctant hero Photinus. One of the forgotten classics of fantasy, the duology is ripe for rediscovery. Fans include Neil Gaiman, who has provided a new introduction to the Fantasy Masterwork collection.

Author : Douglas Lowell Jack
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781525594298

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Rattlesnakes, Airplanes and Gold by Douglas Lowell Jack Pdf

This book begins with the story of how one American family found their own way into being part of the national pre-occupation with Soviet aggression during the 1950s. They acquired their own bomb-shelter in the form of a 1500-foot long underground tunnel. This tunnel was bored into a mountainside in central Nevada USA for the purpose of mining radio-active Uranium ore. The general idea was that everyone went underground before a nuclear attack. After some time went by, they would then all emerge out into the bright sunshine; start everything back up again; put the coffee on and life would be good...minus the evil Soviet Union! There were so many deadly rattlesnakes in the area, they even considered sending a few of them in to the authorities along with the Uranium orders, just to liven things up a bit! Maybe just the threat of dropping a whole bomb-load of angry rattlesnakes on the Russians would have been enough! Who knows! Before this Nevada adventure they had been gold mining in the snow-filled, rugged mountains of Idaho State. This saga also included, at one point, having to be rescued by the US Airforce! Even before all of that occurred, the head of the family had spent 10 years in Alaska as a mining man and a bush pilot. The whole chapter of his Alaskan arctic adventures reads almost like something out of an Errol Flynn movie! The family then moved to the isolated and remote interior of British Columbia, Canada, where a whole new endeavour in placer- gold mining and pioneer living, was begun. Airplanes and bush pilots became a big part of those stories, as well! This book was written by the oldest son of the family and contains first-hand, exciting, informative and entertaining glimpses into a way of life in North America that is rapidly disappearing. Hopefully, for the older readers, these stories will surely bring back vibrant memories of their own past adventures and for the younger readers, this book will be a call to action to find and live their own dreams. Through it all, this family definitely had their share of: Rattlesnakes, Airplanes and Gold

Author : Mrs. S. A. Southworth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OSU:32435018587626

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Gold and Dross, Or, The False Life and the True by Mrs. S. A. Southworth Pdf