When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Gold is a heavy metal and one of Earth's rarer elements, formed in space when neutron stars ...

This week, Garrett is back at the Newmont Twin Creeks mine to learn how gold goes from in the ground to the finished product! Follow along on his tour of the facility on this week's field trip episode ...

Recently the value of all gold in the world has risen to about $25 trillion. Not so long ago—under the Federal Reserve chairmanship of Janet Yellen, even—this stash carried a value only three-eighths ...