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To: The Vet who wrote (107341)	2/29/2008 2:37:50 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 306849

Gold is most certainly used in virtually every electronic item in common use today thats a straw man. The small amt of gold used in electronics accounts for a miniscule amt of demand. Your childish prose in regards to this is fairly comical btw. How old are you? (edit-oh never mind, 61- well in your day GOLD was used when things were really soldered with soldering irons but those days are gone) The total amt of gold used in electronics is rivaled by its use in the DENTAL SECTOR. Most of gold is used in jewelery. Gold is currently used in a large number of applications, but compared to the use of other precious metals, overall demand for gold is relatively low. As a proportion of total gold demand, current industrial applications, mainly in the electronics and dental sectors, amount to about 12%, figure 1. In comparison, industrial use of platinum, palladium and silver accounts for more than 50% of total demand. However, with a whole range of new technologies and developing markets increasingly requiring the use of gold, there is considerable scope to grow this proportion of demand.