![]() ![]() The earliest history of human interaction with gold is long lost to us, but its association with the gods, with immortality, and with wealth itself are common to many cultures throughout the world. Gold’s early uses were no doubt ornamental, and its brilliance and permanence (it neither corrodes nor tarnishes) linked it to deities and royalty in early civilizations. It occurs in a virtually pure and workable state, whereas most other metals tend to be found in ore-bodies that pose some difficulty in smelting. Gold is the easiest of the metals to work. When thinking about the historical progress of technology, we consider the development of iron and copper-working as the greatest contributions to our species’ economic and cultural progress – but gold came first. Gold was the first metal widely known to our species. And nearly everyone who found it was impressed with it, and so was the developing culture in which they lived. Because gold is dispersed widely throughout the geologic world, its discovery occurred to many different groups in many different locales.
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