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Gold: The Race for the World’s Most Seductive Metal

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HardCover. Pub Date :2013-12-03 Pages: 304 Language: English Publisher: Simon Schuster From the lost empires of the Sahara to these days’s frenzied global gold rush. a blazing exploration of the human love affair with gold by Matthew Hart. the award -winning creator of DiamondIn the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. the cost of gold skyrocketed-in three years more than doubling from 800 an ounce to 1900. This huge spike drove an unprecedented global gold-mining and exploration boom. much bigger than the Gold Rush of the 1800s. In Gold. acclaimed creator Matthew Hart takes you on an unforgettable journey all over the world and through history to inform the atypical story of how gold was the arena’s so much precious commodity.Beginning with a page-turning dispatch from the crime -ridden inferno of the arena’s deepest mine. Hart pulls back to survey gold’s tempestuous past. From…

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