Gold
Inside the Race for the World's Most Seductive Metal
1st Edition
Published on 5. December 2013
304 pages
978-1-84983-970-9 (ISBN)
Description
Since the 2008 financial crisis the price of gold has sky-rocketed, from around $800 an ounce in August of that year to a peak of around $1700 an ounce. Fortunes have been made, and this has kicked off an unprecedented gold-mining and prospective boom around the world. In this book Matthew Hart takes readers on a journey around the world and through history to tell the story of how gold became the world's most precious commodity, the highlights of its dramatic, tempestuous history, and the behind-the-scenes intrigue of the current boom. He ends this controversial rollercoaster story by revealing what the experts are saying about the profound changes underway in the gold market and the prospects for the future.
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Matthew Hart is a veteran writer and journalist, and author of three books including a history of diamonds, Diamond: The History of a Cold-blooded Affair. He lives in New York.
Content
- Intro
- Half-title page
- Also by Matthew Hart
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Dedication page
- Epigraph page
- Contents
- 1. The Underground Metropolis
- 2. River of Gold
- 3. The Master of Men
- 4. Camp David Coup
- 5. The Discovery of Invisible Gold
- 6. Goldstrike!
- 7. Linglong
- 8. The Bandit Circus
- 9. The Spider
- 10. Shadow Gold
- 11. The Gold in the Bamboo Forest
- 12. Kibali
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index
