A recent article in the Gold Bulletin by Georg Steinhauser, a chemistry post doc at Vienna University of Technology in Austria decided to measure the amount of gold lost by his wedding ring each week during his first year of marriage.
At the end of the first year, his ring had lost a total of 6.15 mg of gold an average of 0.12 mg each week. Steinhauser plans to complete a long term study of the lost of gold from his wedding ring, now weighing the ring once every six months. With the price of gold as high as it is – that may be a real loss.
ATG