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English: This chart shows the nominal price of gold along with the price in 1971 and 2011 dollars (adjusted based on the consumer price index). The historical gold price was obtained from www.igolder.com; CPI was obtained from www.rateinflation.com. The data is in section Chart Data.
Most gold mines in Egypt today were exploited for high-grade gold (15 g/t gold or greater) by the ancient Egyptians; [8] however, there has been limited exploration that applies modern day techniques where deposits can be viable based on gold grades as low as 0.5 g/t (provided there is sufficient tonnage and readily available infrastructure).
The standard gold bar held and traded internationally by central banks and bullion dealers is the Good Delivery bar with a 400 ozt (12.4 kg; 27.4 lb) nominal weight. However, its precise gold content is permitted to vary between 350 ozt (10.9 kg; 24.0 lb) and 430 ozt (13.4 kg; 29.5 lb). The minimum purity required is 99.5% gold.
The Sukari mine is Egypt's first modern gold mine. Egypt was known in the ancient world as being a source of gold, and one of the earliest available maps shows a gold mine at this location. [1] Today. Sukari is a combination of an open-pit mine mine and an underground mine. [2] The site is supplied by a 30km-long pipeline bringing water from ...
Gold mining in Egypt involved both surface mining such as panning for gold in riverbeads and underground mining, where tunnels were dug to extract gold-bearing quartz veins. [6] During the Bronze Age , sites in the Eastern Desert became a great source of gold-mining for nomadic Nubians, who used "two-hand-mallets" and "grinding ore extraction ."
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In 1885, Egypt went into a purely gold standard, and the Egyptian pound unit, known as the juneih, was introduced at E£1 = 7.4375 grammes of fine gold. This unit was chosen on the basis of the gold content in the British gold sovereign and maintaining the exchange value of 97.5 piastres to the pound sterling, and it replaced the Egyptian ...
The manufacturer of Goldback does not directly sell Goldbacks. The Goldbacks are sold to distributors, which then sell to the public. The listed price can fluctuate once a day on week days and has a high correlation to the price of gold in dollars. Though there is a listed price, the cost varies widely when purchasing them on the open market.