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Gold prices
Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2014 11:45 pm
by Mooser
I was thinking of buying my thai sweetheart a birthday gift here in Canada, but as I will be in cambo for New Years, I was looking at that option.
I would imagine that a gold chain would be quite cheaper there.
Any good places to buy them there? Central market? Aeon mall?
Thanks guys
Re: Gold prices
Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2014 12:09 am
by flying chicken
If you are planning to buy platinum....Cambodia market is good for it. In term of pure gold...forget it, buy it in the west.
Re: Gold prices
Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2014 1:36 am
by Mooser
flying chicken wrote:If you are planning to buy platinum....Cambodia market is good for it. In term of pure gold...forget it, buy it in the west.
Why is this? I was thinking of 10 k chain, is it not good quality? Price?
Re: Gold prices
Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2014 2:07 am
by flying chicken
I dont know. All I know is Cambodia gold sold at the market is not pure by definition. Real gold dont lose value, but Cambodia gold does.
Re: Gold prices
Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2014 3:11 am
by frank lee bent
platin is not platinum, it is karat gold starting with 18k and dropping down through the grades.
yes, gold jewellery is cheaper in cambo than in the west.
how do i know?
i have been in the business for 35 years and worked as a smith as well as a lapidarist.
Re: Gold prices
Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2014 7:00 am
by flying chicken
Isnt platin short for platinum?
Re: Gold prices
Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2014 7:21 am
by frank lee bent
no, it means karat gold.
there is no platinum in gold shops
Re: Gold prices
Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2014 7:24 am
by Bitte_Kein_Lexus
I ways thought platin just meant gold plated. But I know nothing about jewelry/karats/plating.
Re: Gold prices
Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2014 7:25 am
by frank lee bent
it means alloy vs 24kt basically
Re: Gold prices
Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2014 9:09 am
by Garry.Crabtree
I heard that after years of disappointing results, OZ Minerals sold its Mondolkiri resource. It seems that it didn't pan out