Whois & Analysis for bullionstar.co.nz

Precious metals are rare, naturally occurring metallic chemical elements of high economic value.

Precious metals, particularly the noble metals, are more corrosion resistant and less chemically reactive than most elements.

They are usually ductile and have a high lustre.

Historically, precious metals were important as currency but are now regarded mainly as investment and industrial raw materials.

Gold, silver, platinum, and palladium each have an ISO 4217 currency code.

Bullion is non-ferrous metal that has been refined to a high standard of elemental purity.

The term is ordinarily applied to bulk metal used in the production of coins and especially to precious metals such as gold and silver.

It comes from the Anglo-Norman term for a melting-house where metal was refined, and earlier from French, "boiling".

Although precious metal bullion is no longer used to make coins for general circulation, it continues to be held as an investment with a reputation for stability in periods of economic uncertainty.

To assess the purity of gold bullion, the centuries-old technique of fire assay is still employed, together with modern spectroscopic instrumentation, to accurately determine its quality.

New Zealand is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.

It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island and the South Island—and over 700 smaller islands.

It is the sixth-largest island country by area and lies east of Australia across the Tasman Sea and south of the islands of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga.

The country's varied topography and sharp mountain peaks, including the Southern Alps, owe much to tectonic uplift and volcanic eruptions.

New Zealand's capital city is Wellington, and its most populous city is Auckland.

A coin is a small object, usually round and flat, used primarily as a medium of exchange or legal tender.

They are standardized in weight, and produced in large quantities at a mint in order to facilitate trade.

They are most often issued by a government.

Coins often have images, numerals, or text on them.

The faces of coins or medals are sometimes called the obverse and the reverse, referring to the front and back sides, respectively.

The obverse of a coin is commonly called heads, because it often depicts the head of a prominent person, and the reverse is known as tails.

Gold is a chemical element; it has symbol Au and atomic number 79.

In pure form, it is a bright, slightly orange-yellow, dense, soft, malleable, and ductile metal.

Chemically, gold is a transition metal, a group 11 element, and one of the noble metals.

It is one of the least reactive chemical elements being second lowest in the Reactivity series.

It is a solid under standard conditions.