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Gold/Mining/Energy : Gold Price Monitor
GDXJ 98.59-2.8%Nov 13 4:00 PM EST
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To: dave rose who wrote (77862)10/2/2001 6:10:22 PM
From: Richnorth  Read Replies (2) of 116759
 
I guess you are right.

Since the density of titanium (4.54 g/cm3) is so much lower than that of gold (19.3 g/cm3) I can't see how a Titanium doctored gold coin could be made to have the same mass and size as a genuine pure gold coin.

However, I have heard in the 1980s that some gold bullion was doctored with tungsten (wolframium) which has about the same density as gold.

Surely, such doctoring can be discovered by a number of tests. e.g. Xrays etc?
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