"Gold brick" redirects here. For other uses, see Gold brick (disambiguation).

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Types

Gold bars are classified into two different types — cast and minted — based on their method of manufacturing ^[1]. Cast bars are made by pouring molten gold into an ingot mold to help the gold to take a form. Minted bars are made from gold blanks that have been hand cut to the required dimensions from a flat piece of gold. Markings are almost always applied by presses. ChipGold is a relatively new form of gold bar consisting of a small ingot (1-20 grams) in a sealed and certified package the size of a credit card. This article is about the manufacturing process. ... A mint is a facility which manufactures coins for currency. ... Manufacturing (from Latin manu factura, making by hand) is the use of tools and labor to make things for use or sale. ... In physics, melting is the process of heating a solid substance to a point (called the melting point) where it turns into a liquid. ... ChipGold is a gold ingot vacuum-sealed in a package in the shape of a credit card. ... Look up credit card in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

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Weights and values

One troy ounce = 31.1034768 grams. Thus if gold was at US$600 per ounce, a gold gram would be worth just under US$20. Troy weight is a system of units of mass customarily used for precious metals, black powder, and gemstones. ... A gold gram is the amount of value represented by exactly one gram of gold. ...

Note where gold is measured in ounces, these are troy ounces, not the much more common avoirdupois ounce which is used for measuring weights in food etc. An avoirdupois ounce is lighter than a troy ounce. One avoirdupois ounce = 28.349523125 grams. The avoirdupois (IPA: ; French IPA: ) system is a system of weights (or, properly, mass) based on a pound of sixteen ounces. ...

• One tonne = 1000 kilograms = 32,150.746 troy ounces (value US$24,360,620 as of Oct. 15, 2007).
• One kilogram = 1000 grams = 32.15074656 troy ounces (value US$24,360.62 as of Oct. 15, 2007).
• One tael = 50 grams (value US$1,218.03 as of Oct. 15, 2007).

This is the official rate of taels in mainland China since the country went metric. However, historically a tael's weight could be as little as 36.7 grams depending on the customs of the province. In Taiwan and Hong Kong today a tael is equivalent to 37.429g. The International System of Units (symbol: SI) (for the French phrase Syst me International dUnit s) is the most widely used system of units. ...

Gold is very dense (19.3 g/cm³), to the extent that ten million U.S. dollars worth occupies less than one cubic foot.

References

^ The International Gold Bars Collection "Bar Types, Weights and Purities" URL accessed on December 24, 2005. A gold bar is 100kg is the 358th day of the year (359th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

See also

• Precious metal
• Fort Knox Bullion Depository
• Gold as an investment
• Gold coin
• Millesimal fineness
• Official gold reserves
• Dore bar
• Bullion
• Ingot
• ChipGold

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External links

• Allgold of sevenoaks - Information on gold bars
• Categories of gold bar