Will King Tut Put Gold in YOUR Pocket?

Will King Tut Put Gold in YOUR Pocket?

King Tut has been making the news again lately. That’s quite an achievement for a boy king who has been dead for about 3,000 years. What’s the news? A group of archaeologists from Italy are about to take advanced imaging equipment into Tut’s tomb – equipment that can “see” through 40 feet of solid rock and take images – to determine whether there are additional chambers in the tomb that haven’t yet been explored... 

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Does More Gold End Up in Dresser Drawers than Anywhere Else?

Does More Gold End Up in Dresser Drawers than Anywhere Else?

If you like to go looking for gold at estate sales, antique malls and other places where old furniture is for sale, here’s a little advice for you . . .Bring along a magnifying glass and check dresser drawers carefully for small items. Chances are good that you will find some very valuable small “stuff” rolling around, or lodged in the corners of drawers, or even hidden in the joints where a drawer’s bottom is inserted into the sides. 

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Can You Accurately Test Gold at Home?

Can You Accurately Test Gold at Home?

Although those kits are useful, they cannot take the place of the thorough testing and analysis that is offered by a qualified gold refinery like Specialty Metals Smelters and Refiners, the parent company of GoldRefiners.com. Acid-testing kits can only determine the gold content of small individual items like rings or earrings. They can’t determine the gold content in materials like these, which we regularly test for our customers

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Where to Look for Small, Easy-to-Find Pieces of Gold that You Can Recycle Profitably

Where to Look for Small, Easy-to-Find Pieces of Gold that You Can Recycle Profitably

The best thing about looking for small pieces of gold is that if you start looking, you are really going to find them. (That cannot be said if you go out and buy a metal detector, for example, or if you put on scuba gear and start poking around on the ocean floor.) Here are some of the places where you are going to find small pieces of gold.

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Make Money by Recycling Gold Buttons, Buckles and Cufflinks

Make Money by Recycling Gold Buttons, Buckles and Cufflinks

How much are those small pieces worth? In most cases, they don’t contain enough gold to bring you much of a return if you send them to our gold refinery. But some old buttons, buckles, studs and cufflinks do contain gold that could be worth more than what you pay for them. If you send them to us for refining, you could be rewarded with a payment for much more than you paid for the items you found.

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