Gold increasing foreign exchange, the world's gold reserves and their trading market have become a small fraction of all markets and fixed exchange rates of currencies to gold have been replaced by floating prices for gold and gold future contract. Though the gold stock grows by only 1 or 2% per year, very little metal is irretrievably consumed. Inventory above ground would satisfy many decades of industrial and even artisan uses at current prices. The gold proportion (fineness) of alloys is measured by karat (k). Pure gold (commercially termed "fine" gold) is designated as 24 karat, abbreviated 24k. English gold coins
Fourteen Carat Mind Fourteen Carat Mind "Fourteen Carat Mind" is a song written by Dallas Frazier and Larry Lee, and recorded by American country music artist Gene Watson. It was released in September 1981 as the first single from the album "Old Loves Never Die". "Fourteen Carat Mind" was Gene Watson's twentieth country hit and his only song to hit number one on the country chart. The single stayed at number one for one week and spent a total of fifteen weeks on the Billboard country chart (though he has #1s on other prominent charts including Cashbox, Record World, Gavin and more. The