How is the gold become dim! How is the most fine gold changed! the stones of the sanctuary are poured out in the top of every street.
The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter! Lamentations 4:1&2
I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see. Revelation 3:18
Who sets its price? And what secret methods are used to control its value? America’s Book of Secrets s3e4: The Gold Conspiracy, History 2012
President Nixon signed an executive order that ended America’s use of the gold standard.
Is it possible the US government has been secretly devaluing gold in order to hoard the precious metal to itself. ibid.
Gold was considered the flesh of the gods. The Incas believed it represented the glory of the sun-gold. And in the Bible there are more than four-hundred references to gold. ibid.
He is responsible for a catastrophic decision – returning the pound sterling to the gold standard. Winston Churchill: A Giant of the Century, Discovery History 2014
Yet all the gold ever mined would fit into a single cube about sixty feet on the side. Nova: Hunting The Elements I, PBS 2012
An ounce of gold for every ton of rock ... The surface mine produces less. ibid.
Over one hundred tons of gold were looted as well as countless gems and precious stones. Michael Wood, Conquistadors, BBC 2000
What the Indians wanted most of all was gold. Michael Wood: The Story of India III: Spice Routes and Silk Road, BBC 2007
Indian housewives own 11% of the globe’s gold stocks. Welcome to India, BBC 2012
For Dawood Ibrahim, Dubai was the perfect retreat ... to make his core business activity – gold smuggling. Misha Glenny, McMafia
Gold itself ain’t good for nothing except making jewellery with and gold teeth. The Treasure of Sierra Madre 1948 starring Humphrey Bogart & Walter Huston & Tim Holt & Bruce Bennett & Barton MacLane & Alfonso Bedoya & Arturo Soto Rangel & Manuel Donde & Jose Torvay et al, director John Huston, old geezer in doss house
Never knew a prospector yet who died rich. ibid.
Such was life in the Golden Gate:
Gold dusted all we drank and ate,
And I was one of the children told,
‘We all must eat our peck of gold.’ Robert Frost, A Peck of Gold, 1926
I have come to this remote corner of southern Poland to try to unravel one of the last great mysteries of the Second World War ... ‘the Nazi gold train that went missing in 1945’. Dan Snow, Hunting the Nazi Gold Train, BBC 2016
If it’s true it’s the kind of thing that happens once in a lifetime. ibid.
This coast [Mozambique] was central to an international trade in gold. Gus Casely-Hayford, Lost Kingdoms of Africa s1e3: Greater Zimbabwe, BBC 2010
This is the great gold kingdom of Great Zimbabwe. For two hundred years the rulers of this place controlled a massive empire between the Zambezi and Nimpopo rivers. ibid.
The kingdom of Asante once ruled supreme in west Africa. It was a kingdom that became an empire. It played a pivotal role in commerce linking three continents, and it was built on slaves and gold. Dr Gus Casely-Hayford, Lost Kingdoms of Africa s2e1: The Kingdom of Asante, BBC 2013
No plunder however was as great or as well organised as just that executed by Nazi Germany in World War II. From the moment he was democratically elected in 1933 Adolf Hitler and his Nazi Party lieutenants used their power to personally enrich themselves. Secrets of War s1e5: Nazi Gold, History 1998
Hitler needed accomplices in Switzerland’s banking community. ibid.
Stealing the gold was only the first part: then the Nazis had to launder it. ibid.
Nearly sixteen hundred miles from Washington, rumour of gold deep in the Black Hills of Dakota is beginning to spread. Robert Redford’s The West aka The American West II: Two Front War, History 2016
Overall we have 413,000 bars which is worth about £155 billion. Inside the Bank of England II, BBC 2019
A golden man dives into a sacred lake filled with precious gold and jewels; Conquistadors destroy empires and plunder their gold; and a shocking claim that alien beings came to Earth for gold. UFOs: The Lost Evidence s2e10: UFOs & Temples of Gold, Discovery 2017
Most share a common connection: the use of gold in rituals linked to these possibly alien sky gods. ibid.
It’s a story more incredible than fiction. Buried treasure forgotten for more than a thousand years discovered by an amateur metal detecting enthusiast. The find is worth millions … ‘When I first saw the Staffordshire hoard, I think there was a real sense of wonder and fear.’ Lost Gold of the Dark Ages, Madeleine Perridge, antiquities expert, National Geographic 2019
The largest collection of Anglo-Saxon gold ever found. ibid.
The Anglo-Saxons liked to be buried with their bling. ibid.
How were they made? By hand or with a device that’s been lost to history? ibid.
That number rose to more than 4,000 pieces estimated to have come from about 700 complete objects. ibid.
This golden statue [raft] may just be the key to the greatest treasure never found: El Dorado, produced by men who could throw gold away. Treasures Decoded s1e3: El Dorado, History 2020
This ten-inch-long five-hundred-year-old statue: a native chief surrounded by twelve of his people: they call this the El Dorado Raft. ibid.
No mine, no seam … The evidence suggests they [conquistadors] completely misunderstood [river gold]. ibid.
What is fame? an empty bubble;
Gold? a transient, shining trouble. James Grainger, Solitude 1755
For thousands of years men have killed for it. Entire cities were built for it. And armies were formed to find it. What is it about the glittering substance known as gold that has made it the most coveted of all metals? The UnXplained with William Shatner s1e25: The Power of Gold, History 2021
The Conquistadors sought not knowledge but gold. They used their superior weapons to loot and murder. In their madness they obliterated a civilisation. Carl Sagan & Ann Druyan, Cosmos: Who Speaks For Earth? PBS 1980
The Amazon rainforest is at a tipping point. And criminal networks are pushing it closer to the edge … Illegal logging is a major factor in deforestation; gold-mining is equally malicious. Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller s1e8: Amazon Mafia, National Geographic 2022
The biggest hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold ever discovered has been found in a field in Staffordshire. BBC News, September 2009
Al Jazeera’s Investigations Unit infiltrates the rival gangs that control Africa’s gold. Gold Mafia I: The Laundry Service, Al Jazeera 2023
Organised crime groups use gold to launder money. ibid.
Zimbabwe’s gold exports are worth up to $2 billion a year. It’s a cash business. ibid.
Macmillan and his rival gold dealer Pattni work for the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe, the country’s central bank. ibid.
The gold is delivered to a company owned by Zimbabwe’s Reserve Bank. In return for their services Pattni and Macmillan are given licences to sell the gold abroad. The competing Mafia fly the gold to Dubai and sell it there. They bring the proceeds bank to Zimbabwe in US dollars cash. ibid.
‘The Gold Mafia is bigger than the government, bigger than the authorities.’ Gold Mafia II: Smoke & Mirrors
A money launderer corrupts Africa’s banks. ibid.
The Diplomatic Mafia has already offered Mr Stanley a laundry service. Henrietta Rushwaya (Zimbabwe Miners Federation) plays a central role in the money laundering plan. She is related to the president (niece). ibid.
Simon Radland runs his own Mafia from money earned through his cigarette company. ibid.