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Gold Ore:

Gold Ore.

The chemical symbol for gold is Au, which is the first two letters of the Latin word aurum, which means 'shining dawn'.

Gold gets its name from the Old English word for yellow, 'geolu'.

Of the 193,000 metric tons of gold discovered to date, 62% has been found in just four countries on earth.

Through the ages, men and women have cherished gold, and many have had a compelling desire to amass great quantities of it -- so compelling a desire, in fact, that the frantic need to seek and hoard gold has been aptly named "gold fever." Gold was among the first metals to be mined because it commonly occurs in its native form -- that is, not combined with other elements -- because it is beautiful and imperishable, and because exquisite objects can be made from it.

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