The story of gold is as rich and complex as the metal itself.
Wars have been fought for it; love has been declared with it. Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs portray gold
as the brilliance of the sun; modern astronomers use mirrors coated with gold to capture images
of the heavens.
By 325 BC the Greeks had mined for gold from Gibraltar to Asia Minor. In 1848 AD James Marshall
found flakes of gold whilst building a sawmill near Sacramento and so triggered the gold rush
in California.
Held securely in national vaults as a reserve asset, gold has an irrefutable logic; released from the
tombs of pharaohs and emperors alike, gold has an undeniable magic.
In Heritage we describe just some of the key moments from gold’s history. Further sections take time to
discuss important fundamental issues such as the relationship of demand and supply,
Numbers and facts draws together some of the more extraordinary statistics which gold
has accumulated across the centuries and around the world.
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