who invented gold?

Answer 1

Date of Discovery: circa 3000 BC
Discoverer: Unknown
Name Origin: From the Old English word geolo (yellow)
Symbol Origin: From the Latin word aurum (gold)
Uses: electronics, jewelry, coins
Obtained From: crust of the earth, copper ores

Answer 2

Steel was kind of, sort of invented. It's a combination of other elemental metals. Brass and bronze as well.

Gold was discovered but not invented. It is an elemental metal. It exists in nature. Usually not in its elemental form but in an ore: a combination of gold and some other element. Even then it tends to be the most distinguishing element lending it's yellowish hue to the rock found.

It most likely became of value because people realized it was common enough to find so as to be useful but rare enough to be more difficult to obtain.

Compare it to quartz and emerald. I'd stick with metals but most are not as easy to distinguish as gold.

Quartz is pretty but common. It's pretty much everywhere. If quartz were to be of use to a nation as a means of money one would have to have a wheel barrow full to buy a slice of bread. You walk two feet and you can find some.

Emeralds only grow naturally in places where the heaviest elements and lightest meet. Places where earth quakes and volcanoes forced materials from the lowest points of the ocean up to meet the highest points of land-based mountains. And through in a nice bit of pressure and heat.

Gold just makes more sense. If something is too rare then it isn't any good for trade. It's simply over priced. Too common and it's inconvenient. You may as well base trade on the value of leaves.

But no one invented gold and it was discovered and had value attached to it long before the advent of language or the appearance of Homo Sapiens Sapiens (that's us).

Answer 3

Gold as an element was not invented by humans, however, it was ''discovered'' and first used in Europe. The oldest gold objects in the world were found near Varna at the Black Sea, present day Bulgaria.
The finds date back roughly 6500 years ago:
http://cherga.bg/statiaen.php?mysid=485&t=24&
http://www.anistor.co.hol.gr/english/enback/o033.htm
http://www.bgtravel.com/ShowPhoto.asp?photo_id=11199

Answer 4

Gold is a natural element. It will be been created not in the big bang itself but as part of the nuclear fusion processes that occured in the early days of the universe, and subsequently in stars.

In the earth, gold has to be extracted from ore or from pure gold rock deposits, or panned from rivers, to be retrieved in sufficient quantities for practical, symbolic or ornamental use.The archaeological evidence is that this has been going on for thousands of years.

If you believe that the universe was created by God, then the best answer to this question is that God created gold. Whether this is so is a matter of personal revelation and faith: it is not something God left empirical evidence about which other Yahoo answerers can tell you.

Answer 5

No-one invented gold, it is a metal that is found naturally in the Earth and elsewhere in the solar system such as on asteroids.

Answer 6

Nobody invented it. The question is, who first discovered it and used it.
In europe the earliest gold-artifact I can think of dates back to the early bronze age. this would be somewhat between 2.200 and 1.600 BC. But in other parts of the world the discovery probably will prior to that. Th europeans didn't invent metalurgy.

Answer 7

Gold was not invented. It was discovered many thousands of years ago. It is an earth element, found in veins underground. It's development as a jewelry source was probably around the bronze age. Do any of you jewelers know that?

Answer 8

Nobody invented gold, it has however been mined since the earliest times. The reason it is a precious metal incidentally is because it does not corrode.

Answer 9

No one invented gold.......it is part of the process of creation.
It was before humans were.
You might mean, who discovered Gold and it's uses?
I am not sure- ancient civilizations used gold in a variety of ways.

Answer 10

Now lets get to the bottom of this,what you should put was,Who was the first person to find gold.Then you could of put,in what country was it found,or what century was it found.
I can understand if your English isn't good,but to expect us to respond to 3 words that are some what funny,i think not,is asking too much i am surprised you even got the answers you have here.Next time think before you type.