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The hunting and hoarding of Gold

It's no good to eat, too soft to build with, and difficult and dangerous to find. But for thousands of years, people have kept, craved and killed for gold. From King Midas to Peter Munk , a conversation with author Matthew Hart about our fascination with the world's most seductive metal....
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The Current27:30The hunting and hoarding of Gold - March 21, 2014
It's no good to eat, too soft to build with, and difficult and dangerous to find. But for thousands of years, people have kept, craved and killed for gold. From King Midas to Peter Munk , a conversation with author Matthew Hart about our fascination with the world's most seductive metal.

 


I'm using the new ribbed pans with the Chinese ribs, and we just pan that material right down, and it's getting pretty exciting now because if we got any gold out of our place up there, why, it'll start to show up.George "Buzzard" Massie - the founder of the

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Gold is often at the centre of how we value things. From wedding bands to Olympic medals... we credit objects to be much more precious if they're golden.

Matthew Hart is the author of Gold: The Race for the World's Most Seductive Metal. Matthew Hart joined us from our studio in New York.

Matthew Hart mentioned the issue of conflict gold and how refineries in the Gulf and Russia are buying illegally mined gold.

Our program tackled that story last month. Have a listen:

We know about conflict diamonds,
but what about conflict gold







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This segment was produced by The Current's Sujata Berry.

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