Now you may be confused about this but it is considered in Aztec belief that waste and filthiness can protect from other filthiness. They used gold for almost every type of cure. It is ironic that this did not protect them from the filthy Europeans that brought new disease and stole there gold. In all of the world and history only about 161,000 tons of it has been collected. Compare that to the 5.6 million tons of aluminium collect this year for america. Gold on the periodical table is Au; This is from aurum, a Latin word meaning "shining dawn". The US has approximately 8,965 tons(about 35,000,000,000 grams) of gold stored. This is about 5.56% of the gold ever found. Shocked huh? Now you see why it's so expensive.
