Golden Meltdown in Jewelry Shop Fire

CEOCambodiaNews · Post by **CEOCambodiaNews** » Tue Jun 23, 2020 10:50 pm

Cambodia News (Svay Rieng): On June 23, 2020, at 10:15 am, there was a fire at the jewelry shop and money exchange, in Veal Yon market, in Svay Rieng city. The owner of the shop was identified as Sok Han, a 47 year old man.

The police arrived and helped to put out the blaze on time. The owner of the shop lost 30 grams of gold, that was melted down in the fire, but at least nobody was injured.

John Bingham · Post by **John Bingham** » Tue Jun 23, 2020 11:35 pm

Is it possible for gold to just melt away? Or burn?

Yerg · Post by **Yerg** » Wed Jun 24, 2020 12:02 am

John Bingham wrote: ↑Tue Jun 23, 2020 11:35 pm Is it possible for gold to just melt away? Or burn?

A quick search found this JB.

“ It's very much possible, though it requires extremely high temperatures. ... Iron melts at 1538 °C and turns into a gas at 2862 °C. Gold is somewhat similiar, melting at 1064 °C and boiling at 2856 °C.”

AzalKH · Post by **AzalKH** » Wed Jun 24, 2020 12:13 am

It will have sunk somewhere to the bottom of that gunk, and at somewhere north of $1600 in value he'll make sure to recover most of it.

The real loss in value would most likely be from worked gold jewellery into basic gold, assuming it wasn't just in nuggets anyway. A basic ring (think wedding ring) is only going to be 2-3g and valued around 100-200.

Duncan · Post by **Duncan** » Wed Jun 24, 2020 5:34 am

I was imagining the high pressure from the fire hoses would have washed the gold down the sewer system .