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their trading market have become a small fraction of all markets and fixed exchange rates of currencies to gold have been replaced by floating prices for gold and gold future contract.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
Carat Cheung Carat Cheung Carat Cheung (; born 7 December 1987) is a Canadian-Chinese actress, model and former beauty pageant queen currently based in Hong Kong and currently under Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB) management. She is the winner of the 2012 Miss Hong Kong Pageant. Carat Cheung hails from Vancouver, British Columbia. She attended Killarney Secondary School and graduated from University of British Columbia majoring in Economics Business Studies. Cheung is also the niece of TVB television drama producer Alfred Cheung Kin-ting. Prior to returning to Hong Kong, Chueng worked as a presenter for Fairchild TV, a Chinese television channel in Canada.