Video The Cabinet of Curiosities: Secrets of Rocks, Minerals & Gems "Story 58_Why Gold Has Always Been Special"

Why has gold always been special?

Curio opened the eighth drawer of the Cabinet of Curiosities and found a piece that still shines like captured sunlight.

It never rusts.

It never fades.

It is soft enough to become a crown… and rare enough to wire the modern world.

From river nuggets

to Egyptian masks

to the gold inside your phone —

gold has travelled with us the whole way.

Wow fact: all the gold ever mined could fit in a cube about the size of a tennis court.

Curio’s question:

If you had one small magic piece of gold… what would you use it for?