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Gemstones, Minerals & Fossils
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<blockquote data-quote="Deepseeker" data-source="post: 580925" data-attributes="member: 13321"><p>Bit of a long-shot, but there was a practice sometimes in the past of making "Spurious Gold" to gain financial advantage. </p><p></p><p>John Tully and Ruth Moore published a book in 2000 called "A Difficult Case" about a Chinese miner in Victoria in the 1860's by the name of Jong Ah Siug, who at one time was charged with making Spurious Gold.</p><p></p><p>An excerpt from the facts surrounding the case follows- <em>Jong Ah Siug was born in Zhongshan, in southern China. Arriving in 1855, he moved around the diggings of Western Victoria for a time before settling in Bealiba (north of Maryborough).</em></p><p></p><p><em>Jong first made himself known to the authorities after attempting to sell spurious gold in 1863. Making spurious gold involved mixing another metal - usually copper - with gold to produce an alloy that resembled pure gold. In response, shopkeepers had begun to use a flame test before they purchased gold. If the flame burned green, it showed there was copper mixed into the gold.</em></p><p></p><p>-Just a thought!</p><p></p><p>-D.S</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Deepseeker, post: 580925, member: 13321"] Bit of a long-shot, but there was a practice sometimes in the past of making "Spurious Gold" to gain financial advantage. John Tully and Ruth Moore published a book in 2000 called "A Difficult Case" about a Chinese miner in Victoria in the 1860's by the name of Jong Ah Siug, who at one time was charged with making Spurious Gold. An excerpt from the facts surrounding the case follows- [i]Jong Ah Siug was born in Zhongshan, in southern China. Arriving in 1855, he moved around the diggings of Western Victoria for a time before settling in Bealiba (north of Maryborough).[/i] [i]Jong first made himself known to the authorities after attempting to sell spurious gold in 1863. Making spurious gold involved mixing another metal - usually copper - with gold to produce an alloy that resembled pure gold. In response, shopkeepers had begun to use a flame test before they purchased gold. If the flame burned green, it showed there was copper mixed into the gold.[/i] -Just a thought! -D.S [/QUOTE]
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