Check your GOLD for Tungsten before you BUY
Tungsten Filled Gold Bar - BEWARE
These are high tech gold testers that are necessary for anyone buying gold bullion, gold coins and gold bars.
WHY ARE THE GOLD LOCK TESTERS NECESSARY?
Gold and tungsten have nearly the same densities. Gold is 19.3 grams/cc and tungsten is 19.25 grams/cc. Counterfeiters exploit tungsten’s high density to mimic gold and fool unsuspecting investors. Gold coins and bars are being manufactured in China and can be purchased on the internet for less than three dollars . Unscrupulous gold sellers could more than quadruple their investment.
Tungsten is the #1 metal used to craft high quality frauds. The reasons tungsten is used is because its density/weight is nearly the same as gold and its only 3 dollars an ounce. Golds density is 19.3 grams/cc and tungstens density is 19.25 grams/cc This means that counterfeiters are creating realistic coins and bars that look exactly like a real gold coins with identical weight, diameter and thickness. Your would never know that you are buying a fake unless you drilled or melted the coins and bars down. Nobody is going to melt a perfectly good coin down so some of the gold coins that you currently own could be part tungsten; or gold/silver you will buy in the future.