The Gold Industry and Gold Standard #260848

Old attracted the attention of primitive man by its color, lustre and indestructibility. The earliest mining and metallurgical operations of which traces remain were those in Egypt that dealt with the ores of gold. From pictorial rock carvings in upper Egypt, as also from Egyptian hieroglyphics, it is found that the search, desire, and use of gold ex tended back some 3000 to 4000 years before the Christian era.