yea, i was thinking about value...

end of the world as we know it.....

something else rare would have to take it's place--not diamonds.....

virgins....that's my guess....pretty sad huh?

or we could just do the barter system?

the scientists who dare to bring manufactured gold into the market?----he's already dead...

Copper walks into a bar and sees Gold

Copper shouts "Au !"

thank you i'm here all week, try the beef.

We can create gold already, in particle accelerators. We can only create minute amounts and at a cost that would make gold more expensive, not less.

Organic gold? That is nonsense. Organic implies made from carbon. Gold is an element, not a molecule.

Synthetic diamond, that's a different story. We can make this from ordinary carbon, which is very plentiful. When this technology becomes commonplace, diamonds will become cheaper. It will always be possible to tell whether a diaond is natural or synthetic, so that will deterine its price.
Ruby and saphire (same chemical) are even easier to make than diamond.


Advances in nanotech will make it possible to mine precious metals very efficiently. This will make the amount of gold, platinum, etc, much more available and cheaper.

--Wikipedia

I think the CRC Handbook says $2,000,000/troy oz. but I don't have a copy with me.

Wikipedia says that a 6.8 MeV gamma ray hitting the stable but rare isotope Hg-198 will result eventually in non-radioactive gold, but I'm having problems confirming that or pricing it. The reverse, sending a neutron into gold to make pure Hg-198 is better known, and verifiable.