In Virginia we have mines where the quality of the gold is much inferior--some of it as low as 19 carats, and in Georgia the mines produce it nearly 22 carats fine.
It is 211/2 carats fine--within half a carat of the quality of English sovereigns or American Eagles, and is almost ready to go to the mint.
This alloy resembles in colour gold of 16 carats fine, or 2/3, and will resist the action of nitric acid, unless very concentrated and boiling.
The weight, in grains troy, doubled or quadrupled, as the case may be, gives the number of carats fine of the alloy examined, without calculation.
Gold of the French trinket standard, 20 carats fine, not hammered 15.
Gold of the Parisian standard, 22 carats fine, not hammered(A) 17.
If perfectly pure, it is denominated gold 24 carats fine; if alloyed with one part of any other metal or mixture of metals, it is said to be 23 carats fine.
The standard gold coin of the United States and Great Britain is 22 carats fine; or, in other words, it contains one-twelfth part of alloy.
In Virginia we have mines where the quality of the gold is much inferior--some of it so low as 19 carats--and in Georgia the mines produce it nearly 22 carats fine.
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