How much we know about the gold – II [Fwd: Sharon Rajkumar]

An employee of KCM pours molten gold while reprocessing it near Plovdiv, Bulgaria on October 20, 2011. (Stoyan Nenov/Reuters) #

Gold is poured at Agnico-Eagle’s Meadowbank Mine near Baker Lake, Nunavut, Canada on August 24, 2011. (Chris Wattie/Reuters) #

Gold bars are displayed at a jewelery shop in Chandigarh, India on May 8, 2012. India is the world’s biggest buyer of bullion. (Ajay Verma/Reuters) #

Indonesian police clash with striking workers of US gold and copper mining company Freeport McMoran in Timika, Indonesia on October 10, 2011 where police shot and killed one protester and wounded another after the striking workers pelted them with stones, injuring seven policemen. (Tjahjo Eranius/AFP/Getty Images) #

Andean people protest against Newmont’s proposed $4.8 billion Conga gold mine near the Cortada lagoon in Cajamarca, Peru on November 24, 2011. Protesters and farmers say the mine would cause pollution and hurt water supplies by replacing a string of alpine lakes with artificial reservoirs. (Enrique Castro-Mendivil/Reuters) #

Traders work in the gold and silver options pit at the New York Mercantile Exchange in New York on August 24, 2011. Gold plunged in the biggest drop since December 2008. (Jin Lee/Bloomberg) #

Javed Maseeh sweeps the pavement as he searches for gold at a gold market in Peshawar on July 3, 2011. When shops close, Pakistan’s gold scavengers sift through dirt and sewers for precious dust particles. (A. Majeed/AFP/Getty Images) #

Security guard Gus Rodriguez stands outside “El Palacio de Oro” jewelry store in downtown Los Angeles on August 25, 2011. (Damian Dovarganes/Associated Press) #

A shop assistant sells gold bars at a gold shop in Beiji

Locals stand on the Phaung Daw (Royal Boat) during the annual 18-day Phaung Daw Oo festival at Inle Lake, Myanmar on October 4, 2011. The boat houses five statues of Buddha gilded with gold leaf, which are believed to have been brought there by one of the kings of Bagan in the 11th century. (Soe Zeya Tun/Reuters) #

An Oscar statuette is dipped in an electrically charged tub as it is plated with gold at the R.S. Owens factory in Chicago on December 6, 2011. (Mira Oberman/AFP/Getty Images) #

Buddhist monks pray as worshippers put gold leaves onto a seated Buddha image at the Mahamuni temple in Mandalay, Myanmar on February 4, 2012. (Christophe Archambault/AFP/Getty Images) #

Angelito “Karat Chef” Araneta Jr. looks at his edible water dragon sculpture made of gum-paste icing inside a restaurant in Manila on January 20, 2012. The sculpture is coated with 24k gold leaf and adorned with 17 Mikimoto pearls and two diamonds on the eyeballs. Angelito made the sculpture, which costs around 600,000 pesos ($13,863), for the Lunar New Year. (Romeo Ranoco/Reuters) #

Goldsmiths craft ornaments at a workshop in Kolkata on March 26, 2012. (Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters) #

Old jewelry made from gold is melted down at Zorka, a jewelry factory in Minsk on April 26, 2012. (Vasily Fedosenko/Reuters) #

Jewelry and silver and gold coins dating back to the Roman period that were recently discovered at an excavation site near kiryat Gat, in Jerusalem are displayed on June 4, 2012. (Sharon Gal/AFP/GettyImages)

A client whose face is covered with gold is seen at the Viet My beauty salon in Hanoi on February 13, 2012. Viet My is one of a small number of salons in Vietnam that provides 24k gold leaf face mask therapy, said to help make skin whiter. A single facial costs 1.8 million Vietnam dong ($86.41). (Kham/Reuters)

South Korea’s Oh Jin Hyek bites his gold medal during the victory ceremony for the men’s individual archery event at the London 2012 Olympic Games at the Lord’s Cricket Ground on August 3, 2012. (Suhaib Salem/Reuters)

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