Olympic Gold Medals are not gold
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Olympic Gold Medals Are Made Up Mostly of Silver
Next week in London, athletes from around the world will go for the gold. But as it turns out, the Olympic gold medal is mostly made of silver.
Weighing in at 412 grams -- or roughly the weight of a can of green beans -- the gold medal is made up of only 1.34%, or about 6 grams of gold.
The rest is comprised of 93% silver and 6% copper.
The 2012 Olympic medals were made from nearly nine tons of metal from Rio Tinto's Kennecott Utah Copper mine in Salt Lake City and its Oyu Tolgoi mine in Mongolia.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/olympic-gold-medals-made-mostly-111600613.html
Next week in London, athletes from around the world will go for the gold. But as it turns out, the Olympic gold medal is mostly made of silver.
Weighing in at 412 grams -- or roughly the weight of a can of green beans -- the gold medal is made up of only 1.34%, or about 6 grams of gold.
The rest is comprised of 93% silver and 6% copper.
The 2012 Olympic medals were made from nearly nine tons of metal from Rio Tinto's Kennecott Utah Copper mine in Salt Lake City and its Oyu Tolgoi mine in Mongolia.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/olympic-gold-medals-made-mostly-111600613.html
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Looked it up and Wiki says: "The last series of Olympic medals to be made of solid gold were awarded at the 1912 Olympic games in Sweden. Olympic Gold medals are required to be made from at least 92.5% silver, and must be plated with a minimum of 6 grams of gold.[5] All Olympic medals must be at least 60mm in diameter and 3mm thick."