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To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (107320)	2/29/2008 1:39:59 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

thats a farce Hawkmoon. Yes dear.. anything you say dear.. the sky is pink dear... blah, blah, blah,... Anyone who says 12% of annual gold production is used in industry is an idiot, dear.. Platinum is cheaper than gold, dear.. anything you say dear...: industryweek.com Thanks for reminding me why I decided to get divorced.. Hawk

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (107320)	2/29/2008 1:49:30 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

"To claim gold has some sort of definative use in anything people use today is just silly." Gold has utility as a way to measure wealth other than as pieces of paper. It's undeniable Lizzie. Keep your wealth in clownbucks. I'll keep mine in GLD. It's not that GLD is going up - the clownbucks I'm measuring it in here are going DOWN.

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (107320)	2/29/2008 2:18:02 PM
From: The Vet	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

Lizzie; check the wall jack of your telephone and look at the cord you plug into it (both ends). Also look at any extensions, jacks, adaptors and telephone, network cable plugs and USB plugs you you have plugged into your computer.. Look carefully at the little wires and contacts inside. Take the battery out of your mobile phone. Look at the contacts where it plugs in. See that nice shiny golden color! That's real gold plating, very thin to be sure, but gold nevertheless! Without it your connections would be unreliable and would corrode or tarnish and your computer, telephone, cell phone, printer, scanner etc would not function reliably.. Gold is most certainly used in virtually every electronic item in common use today in everyone's homes, including yours.. While large items like computers, TVs etc may be recycled and some of that gold recovered, the small items like the billions of telephone and computer cables produced annually are not, and that gold (even though it is a small amount on a per item basis - it adds up to quite a lot) is lost..