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Gold leaf
Gold leaf, also called gold foil, is gold beaten into extremely thin sheets, typically 0.1 to 1.2 micrometers thick, applied by gilding to give surfaces the look of solid gold.
Gold Leaf Farming LP
Gold Leaf Farming LP is a Delaware limited partnership, formed in 2023 and headquartered in Modesto, California, that owns almond and pistachio orchards and sells farmland interests to investors.
Gold Line (Dubai Metro)
The Gold Line is a planned 42-kilometer, 18-station line of the Dubai Metro, approved in 2026, and Dubai's first fully underground metro line, opening in 2032.
Gold Mask of Sanxingdui
The Gold Mask of Sanxingdui (三星堆金面具) is a hammered gold face covering made by the ancient Shu civilization of Sichuan, China, during the late second millennium BCE.
Gold Mask of the Lord of Sipán
The Gold Mask of the Lord of Sipán is a gold funerary face covering from the tomb of a Moche ruler at Huaca Rajada, Peru, excavated intact in 1987.
Gold medal
Gold medal: a first-prize medal of gold or gold color, from 1851 world's fairs and Paris Salon juries to Olympic art medals (1912–1948) and today's AIA, ACC, and Scholastic awards.
Gold Mines at Dolaucothi, Wales
Dolaucothi Gold Mines (Ogofau), near Pumsaint, Carmarthenshire, Wales: Britain's only known Roman gold mine, worked from about 75-80 AD with hydraulic leats and adits, rediscovered in the 1690s, and mined intermittently until 1938.
Gold mining
Gold mining is the extraction of gold from ore bodies, placer gravels, and recycled material, an industry that produced 3,661.2 tonnes of mine gold in 2024.
Gold Mountain (film)
Gold Mountain (金山) is Ang Lee's upcoming Western adapted from C Pam Zhang's novel How Much of These Hills Is Gold, about orphaned Chinese immigrant siblings in Gold Rush California; filmed in Northern California in 2026, distinct from Alan Taylor's earlier same-title project, releasing 2027.
Gold nanocages
Gold nanocages (AuNCs) are hollow, porous gold nanostructures with cubic outlines, made from silver nanocubes and studied for cancer imaging, photothermal therapy, and drug delivery.
Gold nanocluster catalysis
Gold nanocluster catalysis uses atomically precise, ligand-protected gold clusters as catalysts and electrocatalysts, notably for CO2 reduction to CO, hydrogen evolution, and tunable syngas production, with Au25(SR)18 as the best-studied example.
Gold nanorods
Gold nanorods (AuNRs) are rod-shaped gold nanoparticles whose optical absorption is tuned from the visible into the near-infrared by aspect ratio, used in biosensing, bioimaging, and photothermal cancer therapy.
Gold nanoshell
A gold nanoshell is a silica-cored nanoparticle with a thin gold shell, invented at Rice University and used to ablate prostate cancer with near-infrared light.
Gold nanostars
Gold nanostars (GNS) are star-shaped gold nanoparticles with about 8 to 10 sharp branches on a 20 to 25 nm core, concentrating near-infrared light for photothermal tumor ablation, SERS, and imaging.
Gold nanowire
A gold nanowire is a wire-like gold nanostructure ranging from a few nanometers wide down to a single chain of atoms, used in transparent electrodes, sensors, and wearable devices.
Gold nugget
A gold nugget is a naturally occurring mass of native gold, ranging from a few grams to tens of kilograms, found in veins or concentrated in placer deposits.
Gold plating
Gold plating is the deposition of a thin layer of gold onto a surface by electrodeposition, giving corrosion resistance, reliable electrical contacts, and a decorative finish.
Gold Quarry Mine
The Gold Quarry Mine is a large open-pit gold mine about seven miles north of Carlin in Eureka County, Nevada, operated by Nevada Gold Mines as part of the Carlin Complex.
Gold reserve
A gold reserve is monetary gold held by a central bank or government as a reserve asset, totaling about 40,000 tonnes, roughly a fifth of all gold ever mined.
Gold Reserve Act
The Gold Reserve Act of 1934 is a US law that vested the nation's monetary gold in the government and set gold at $35 an ounce.
Gold Runner
The Gold Runner, formerly Amtrak San Joaquins, is a state-supported passenger rail service run by Amtrak between Oakland and Bakersfield through California's San Joaquin Valley, renamed in 2025.
Gold rush
A gold rush is a sudden migration of people to a region where gold has been newly discovered, recurring through the nineteenth century, most famously in California in 1848.
Gold Rush (TV series)
Gold Rush, originally Gold Rush: Alaska, is a Discovery Channel reality series premiered December 3, 2010, following crews such as Todd Hoffman's and Parker Schnabel's mining placer gold in Alaska and the Yukon across 17 seasons, with spinoffs and an ongoing authenticity debate.
Gold rush to Minas Gerais
The gold rush to Minas Gerais (corrida do ouro) was the migration and prospecting boom that followed the discovery of alluvial gold in Brazil between 1693 and 1695.
Gold Rush: Mine Rescue with Freddy & Juan
Gold Rush: Mine Rescue with Freddy & Juan (aka Gold Rush: Freddy Dodge's Mine Rescue) is a Discovery Channel reality series, 2021 to 2026, in which gold recovery experts Freddy Dodge and Juan Ibarra rescue failing small mines for a share of any increased gold haul.
Gold Rush: White Water
Gold Rush: White Water is a Discovery Channel reality spin-off of Gold Rush, first aired January 19, 2018, following Dakota Fred Hurt and son Dustin Hurt diving and dredging for gold in Alaska's Chilkat Range creeks across nine seasons and 104 episodes before its 2025 cancellation.
Gold Ship (ゴールドシップ) (Umamusume: Pretty Derby)
Gold Ship (ゴールドシップ, Gōrudo Shippu) is a trickster character in Cygames' Umamusume: Pretty Derby, based on the real Japanese racehorse Gold Ship, a Stay Gold colt with six G1 wins including back-to-back Takarazuka Kinen; voiced by Hitomi Ueda.
Gold Sodium Thiomalate
Gold sodium thiomalate, also called sodium aurothiomalate (Myocrisin, Myochrysine), is an injectable organogold drug used from the 1930s to treat rheumatoid arthritis, largely displaced by methotrexate.
Gold standard
The gold standard is a monetary regime fixing a currency to a set quantity of gold; its classical era ran from about 1880 to 1914, ending with World War I.
Gold standard (test)
Gold standard (test), also called reference standard, is the best available diagnostic benchmark for a target condition in medicine. Rarely error-free; verification, incorporation, and misclassification bias; alternatives include composite and latent class standards.