Interesting Details About Italian Gold

The Italians have a long history of working with gold

. The Romans developed new methods for extracting gold on a large scale using hydraulic mining procedures, most commonly in Spain from 25 BC onwards and in Romania from 150 AD onwards. One of their largest mines was at Las Medulas in Len (Spain), where seven long aqueducts enabled them to sluice most of a large alluvial deposit.

The Italian economy largely relies on the country's gold sector. The country harvests and utilizes about 500 tons of pure gold. Italy also produces and uses silver and copper and the number of people who find employment in the country's mining sector surpasses forty thousand.

Ten thousand corporations form the Italian gold industry and most of them run their operations in five main Italian regions. These regions are Lombardy, Campania, Piedmont, Tuscany and Veneto. Plenty people around the globe know these areas as gold refining areas.

Italians sustain their traditional designs and ways of producing gold products because they value their gold traditions considerably. They also keep up with modern demands and styles and this is why Italy has many Goldsmith design institutions. These schools enable Italians to teach the current population of young people.

The price of gold all over the world is undergoing a rapid rise and investors are choosing to invest heavily in gold all around the world. As consumers encounter hardships in many parts of the world, those in Italy are not confronted by many hardships. The reason for this is that Italian goldsmiths are sensible and utilize less gold when making gold products. They also use new techniques and processes that increase the strength and quality of gold products by using new metal bases. The results of these techniques and processes are that the gold products manufactured fit comfortably into the pockets of consumers.

Due to the softness of pure (24k) gold, it is generally alloyed with base metals for combining in jewelry, changing its hardness and ductility, melting point, color and other capabilities. Alloys with lower caratage, typically 22k, 18k, 14k or 10k, contain higher percentages of copper, or other base metals or silver or palladium in the alloy.

The metal used most often as a base metal is Copper and it produces a red color. Old-fashioned and Russian jewelry contains 25% copper forming eighteen-carat gold. This jewelry has a visibly different, but not strong copper tint that forms rose gold. The gold-copper alloy that is fourteen carats is similar in color to some bronze alloys. These alloys can work well in the production of police badges and other sorts of badges.

The mixing of gold with iron results in the making of blue gold and the mixing of gold with aluminum ends up in the formation of purple gold. This rarely happens apart from when making special types of jewelry. It is more difficult to make jewelry using blue gold because of the brittle quality of this type of gold.

Fourteen and eighteen carat gold alloys with silver only appear greenish-yellow and are referred to as green gold. White gold alloys can be made with palladium or nickel.

by: Fabio DeMartino

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