Does our ability to create man made Gold pose a threat to Golds ultimate worth?

[SilverShareHolder]

I have been wondering what the long term implications of mans ability to create Gold from more common substances like mercury may be. I realize that at this point it is not efficient but that someday efficiency may increase and this ability may place a cap on the value of natural Gold. I would love to hear the thoughts of others on man made Gold and it's effect on the Gold story.

[Gus the Fish]

I realize that at this point it is not efficient

An enormous understatement.

[Torcan]

I'll be long dead by the time they can do that cheaply, so I am not really concerned about the possibility.
Maybe if gold were $100,000.00 / gram they may go for it, but colliding, blasting, phasering(sic) atoms in the hopes that they fuse into AU79 is cost prohibitive

Not much to worry about for the foreseeable future

Remember: it took an exploding sun to create silver
it took two neutron stars colliding together to create gold
That is a lot of energy

[Speedbump]

Until we are able to reproduce the environment inside of a dying star without destroying everything in the solar system, we probably don't have anything to worry about.

Mining other planets or objects beyond the Earth is more likely to impact the price of metals before the discovery of how to synthesize them in any meaningful volume from other things here on Earth.

[Chump Change]

What happened to the price of diamonds when this occurred?

http://www.diamondnexus.com/pure-car...NL+Campaign+#1

It only seems as if the man made counterpart was priced up to the point of the actual thing...then reduced by a %

Besides, we all know, there are mountains of diamonds that are stored so why is the price of that commodity so high?

Manipulation, and I suspect that will be what will happen when any man made gold hits the markets

[SilverManJason]

Will there be a way to tell man made gold from natural gold, as natural diamonds from lab made diamonds? That will determine the answer to your question.

[SilverIsMoney]

What people do not realize is all these creative and futuristic ways to create gold in the future cannot come about without an absurdly high gold price.

When the amount of gold on a near by asteroid is worth more than it would take to retrieve it from said asteroid then banks will line up to lend the money and it will be done.

I imagine gold would have to be at some outrageous price for that to be the case considering it may cost hundreds of billions to do something like that.

People keep thinking we'll start mining in the ocean, or find gold on the moon, or mars, or mine asteroids, or create it in a large atom smasher, or extract it from mercury or grow it on other metals etc etc etc...

None of that is going to happen until the gold price is outrageous enough to finance the R&D though I do suspect as we near the end game with gold we'll hear more and more crap like how they've just discovered a huge stockpile with a trillion tons at the bottom of the Ocean or on the moon. A tyrant's best weapon has and always will be lying ... as gold becomes scarcer it will cost more to mine. Period.

[goldmineral]

Gold is made from lead not mercury, and involves a sorcerer who must be 500yo, have a long grey beard and a very deep voice.

[Westerner]

Gold is made from lead not mercury, and involves a sorcerer who must be 500yo, have a long grey beard and a very deep voice.

And in a vary large amethyst geode where the sorcerer places the lead in a bath of mercury that is slightly electrically charged in a well ventilated area and done in just a handful of areas on earth where The corona of The Vortex, as well as the minor vortices come together.

[SilverShareHolder]

Gold is made from lead not mercury, and involves a sorcerer who must be 500yo, have a long grey beard and a very deep voice.

And in a vary large amethyst geode where the sorcerer places the lead in a bath of mercury that is slightly electrically charged in a well ventilated area and done in just a handful of areas on earth where The corona of The Vortex, as well as the minor vortices come together.

I don't know about that,... but I know they make Gold at UC Irvine.