Tungsten Gold Plated Bar

Re:Tungsten Gold Plated Bar by walrus01 on Saturday March 18, 2023 @09:10AM (#35208806)

> Notice: Chinatungsten Online (Xiamen) Manu.&Sales Corp. is a very professional and serious company, specializing in manufacturing and selling tungsten related products for more than two decades. Our gold-plated tungsten bar and tungsten alloy golden bar are only for souvenir and decoration purpose. We can provide all kinds of tungsten alloy golden bar as your requirements. Here we declare: Please do not use our gold-plated tungsten alloy bar and tungsten alloy golden bar for any illegal purpose.

Oh good, I'm sure nothing bad will happen since they wrote the disclaimer.

How much does tungsten cost per kg in solid bulk form?

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Re:Tungsten Gold Plated Bar by tohnjitor on Saturday March 18, 2023 @09:16AM (#35208857)

Peanuts compared to gold

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Re:Tungsten Gold Plated Bar by eloff on Saturday March 18, 2023 @09:55AM (#35209152)

The expensive part here is the 1/16 inch gold around the tungsten to fool x-ray scanners, they say that's enough to prevent x-rays from reaching the tungsten.

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Re:Tungsten Gold Plated Bar by D_Alex on Saturday March 18, 2023 @10:14AM (#35209296)

Around US$ 40,000/tonne, $40/kg. Roughly a dollar an ounce, vs nearly $2000 for gold.

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Re:Tungsten Gold Plated Bar by golem14 on Saturday March 18, 2023 @12:36PM (#35210537)

with a thick gold plating ? They must have ways to get really cheap gold.

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Re:Tungsten Gold Plated Bar by in_the_bay on Saturday March 18, 2023 @11:14AM (#35209732)

Long time reader but first time poster, had to share a story.

A decade ago was riding a bus in China, and they had a PSA type ad playing on the screens (paraphrased) "making sure when you're buying gold you distinguish investment (real) gold bars and decorative (fake) gold bars".

I thought "wow, how bad of a problem it must be to need such a PSA".

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