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> Notice: Chinatungsten Online (Xiamen) Manu.&Sales Corp. is a very professional and serious company, specializing in manufacturing and selling tungsten related products for more than two decades. Our gold-plated tungsten bar and tungsten alloy golden bar are only for souvenir and decoration purpose. We can provide all kinds of tungsten alloy golden bar as your requirements. Here we declare: Please do not use our gold-plated tungsten alloy bar and tungsten alloy golden bar for any illegal purpose.

Oh good, I'm sure nothing bad will happen since they wrote the disclaimer.

How much does tungsten cost per kg in solid bulk form?



Long time reader but first time poster, had to share a story.

A decade ago was riding a bus in China, and they had a PSA type ad playing on the screens (paraphrased) "making sure when you're buying gold you distinguish investment (real) gold bars and decorative (fake) gold bars".

I thought "wow, how bad of a problem it must be to need such a PSA".


Around US$ 40,000/tonne, $40/kg. Roughly a dollar an ounce, vs nearly $2000 for gold.


with a thick gold plating ? They must have ways to get really cheap gold.


The expensive part here is the 1/16 inch gold around the tungsten to fool x-ray scanners, they say that's enough to prevent x-rays from reaching the tungsten.


Peanuts compared to gold




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