Olympic Gold Medals Are Made Mostly Of Silver And Copper!

[damaya]

If you were planning on making an old joke today about dumb athletes having gold medals bronzed, hold up! There’s hardly any gold in those gold medals, as CNBC reports that Olympic gold medals contain the following metals:

Silver 92.5%
Copper 6.16%
Gold 1.34%

So congratulations to all of the gold medal winners so far, but before you mail in your valuable gold medal to “Cash For Gold” to receive whatever amount of money they decide to send you in the mail, remember, the medal does not contain as much gold as you think. And if you think mailing in a gold medal to Cash For Gold would land you on their funniest things people have ever mailed in list, look out, because according to them, people have mailed in gold teeth, platinum femur rods, and gold spray-painted Pokemon key-chains.

(read more below...)

http://nottheworstnews.com/2012/08/04/olympic-gold-medals-are-made-mostly-of-silver-and-copper/

[FSogol]

1. PS. The Golden Gate Bridge also is not made out of gold.

Do people really think they medals are solid gold or silver?

[Angleae]

2. Sometimes the silver ones actually are.

Not often though.