Gold We Buy

For your convenience, we purchase a wide variety of gold items in addition to the gold coins and bars that you see elsewhere on this site. We are happy to bring to bear our expertise as a major dealer in precious metals — as well as our skill as a mint — in acquiring your gold.

Because we acquire gold in this way, we may have the gold you're seeking. If you're looking for something that's not on our web site, please call and tell us what it is. Be aware that our inventory fluctuates on these non-standard items; we will tell you what's available when you ask.

Below you will find a sample of the many items we may purchase. If you have a gold item not listed below or sold on this site, please call for our assessment.

Gold Bullion, Gold Coins & Gold Bars

Northwest Territorial Mint offers a wide selection of government-backed gold bullion coins, including the American Eagle, British Sovereign, Canadian Maple Leaf, South African Krugerrand, Vienna Philharmonic, and more. We also buy, sell, and trade Pre-1933 U.S. gold coins and a variety of gold bullion bars.

Gold Uses

Gold is an ancient metal of wealth, commerce and beauty, but it also has a number of unique properties that make it invaluable to industy. These properties include:

• Resistance to corrosion
• Electrical conductivity
• Ductility and malleability
• Infrared (heat) reflectivity
• Thermal conductivity

Gold’s superior electrical conductivity, malleability, and resistance to corrosion have made it vital to the manufacture of components used in a wide range of electronic products and equipment, including computers, telephones, cellular phones, and home appliances.

Gold Industrial uses

Gold, like other important industrial metals, has some unique physical and chemical attributes that mean it is the best material for certain industrial applications.

Gold is very ductile and for some electronic components like bonding wires, the ability to draw gold alloys into extremely thin diameters without breaking is a critical property in the manufacturing process. Gold is also extremely malleable, so in the annealed state it can be hammered cold into a translucent wafer 0.000013 cm thick.

One ounce of gold can be beaten into a sheet covering over 9 square metres and 0.000018 cm thick. Gold has excellent thermal and electrical conductivity, so it makes efficient wires and contacts in electronics, transporting electrical signals efficiently and conducting heat away from critical components. With its high corrosion resistance, the gold found in electronic contacts remains free from tarnish or oxidation.

Uses for Gold: Jewelry, Health Care and Technology

Throughout history, jewelers and goldsmiths have selected gold as their precious metal of choice because of its unique properties. Gold is naturally beautiful and resists corrosion and tarnishing. It is also soft and malleable, which allows artists to shape the metal into almost any design. Most jewelry is still made that way -- by individuals using craft skills and simple tools that have been around for centuries. Factory production of gold jewelry, however, is becoming more common.Electronics manufacturers also use gold extensively to take advantage of its high conductivity. Gold conducts electricity better than all other metals except silver and copper. And it doesn't corrode easily.

Gold as a reserve asset

Central banks have been major holders of gold for more than 100 years and are expected to retain large stocks in future. They currently account for about 20% of above-ground stocks. The process of rebalancing reserve portfolios to adjust to changing conditions since the demise of the gold standard has led to a reduction in the amount of gold held by some central banks in the past ten years. This process may continue for some years to come. But the central banks have affirmed that gold will remain an important reserve asset for the foreseeable future and, importantly, since 1999 have accepted that sales be governed by international agreement.

Gold and money

From the first discoveries of gold in ancient times, its beauty and the ease with which it could be worked have inspired craftsmen to use it to create ornaments, not just for adornment, but as potent symbols of wealth and power. The first pure gold coins were struck by King Croesus of Lydia (present-day Turkey) during his reign between 560 and 547 BC and gold coins have continued as legal tender since that time.

Jewellery Information

Craftsmen have been inspired by gold’s beauty for thousands of years, and have regularly used it to create symbols of wealth and power. As Pindar wrote nearly 2,500 years ago, ‘Gold is the child of Zeus, neither moth nor rust devoureth it.’ Today, gold is still treasured as a basic form of saving in many countries, but there’s no doubt it exists primarily as a decorative material – jewellery fabrication is the crucial cornerstone of the gold market, annually consuming all newly-mined gold.

Uses of Gold

It’s not surprising that most people think of gold as an expensive, luxurious metal. You only need to read about golds extraordinary history to see how that came to be. But gold has an alter-ego – as an incredibly versatile and useful material in science and technology. In fact, our ever-expanding use of technology has actually been a major factor in recent increases in the demand for gold.

A Brief History Of Gold

A child finds a shiny rock in a creek, thousands of years ago, and the human race is introduced to gold for the first time. Gold was first discovered as shining, yellow nuggets. "Gold is where you find it," so the saying goes, and gold was first discovered in its natural state, in streams all over the world. No doubt it was the first metal known to early hominids.

Gold became a part of every human culture. Its brilliance, natural beauty, and luster, and its great malleability and resistance to tarnish made it enjoyable to work and play with.

Because gold is dispersed widely throughout the geologic world, its discovery occurred to many different groups in many different locales. And nearly everyone who found it was impressed with it, and so was the developing culture in which they lived.

Gold Design

Like most parsing systems, GOLD uses the lalr algorithm to analyze syntax and a deterministic finite automotion to identify different lexical units. However, GOLD takes a different approach than common compiler-compilers.

The LALR and DFA algorithms are simple automatas - using lookup tables to determine both state transition and parsing actions. As a result, most of the computational work is performed before any text is parsed. It is the computation of these tables that is both time-consuming and complex. Once created, these parsing tables are essentially independent of any programming language. Data is simply data.

GOLD supports multiple programming languages.

Due to the design of the GOLD Parsing System, multiple programming languages can be, and actually are, supported.

When the GOLD Builder analyzes a grammar, it saves parse table information to a separate file. This file is independent of any particular programming language and can be loaded by different versions of the parsing engine and used. The parsing engine itself is a simple automata, and new versions can be implemented in different programming languages with ease.

GOLD National Leaders Meet in Berlin

The GOLD National Leaders met on October 4, 2008, in Berlin, Germany. The meeting featured presentations from speakers on several topics ranging from guideline implementation to the economics of COPD.

GOLD Executive Committee Meeting, February 2009

The GOLD Executive Committee met on February 13-14, 2009, in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The committee discussed GOLD's evolving status as a non-profit organization and focused on how recommendations might deal with the issue of comorbidities in COPD.

Bolt creates history with 200m gold in Berlin

BERLIN: Usain Bolt extended his stunning domination in the sprints Thursday, adding the 200-meter gold to his tally at the world championships with yet another world record.

Gritting his teeth and pointing to the clock as soon as the record flashed, Bolt is now 5-for-5 in major sprint events, winning gold each time with a world record.

His time of 19.19 slashed .11 seconds of the mark he set last year, four days after breaking his 100 record by the same margin.

‘I was running my heart out,’ Bolt said. ‘I got my start right and that was the key. And when I got the start I knew I was fine.’

Alonso Edward of Panama was second, a massive .62 seconds behind Bolt. Wallace Spearmon of the United States took bronze.

Oil, gold, silver to trade on NCEL

ISLAMABAD: The Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) has allowed trading in futures contracts of crude oil, 100 ounces gold and silver on the National Commodity Exchange Limited (NCEL).

Meanwhile, futures contracts for currency are in the process of being approved.

The SECP on Tuesday said that the approval had been accorded in line with the objective to promote and foster the futures market in the country.

The number of approved contracts with NCEL had now reached to 14, covering a wide range of underlying commodities including gold, silver, rice, RBD palm Olien, Kibor and crude oil.

The SECP while granting approval had also advised the NCEL to ensure that appropriate level of awareness, regarding risks associated with and significant matters of futures trading, was communicated amongst all futures market participants specially prospective individual investors.

NCEL Mini Gold a new way to invest in gold

NCEL provides a simple, safe, cost-effective and transparent platform for buying, selling, trading or investing gold.

You can now buy Gold bars of 10gm in an internationally acceptable tamper proof packaging with certified quality and quantity, imported from PAMP SA, the world’s biggest Swiss refinery. Investors have the option to either take physical delivery or to keep it safely in an NCEL insured vault.