In march or april next year, all 6,000 gold and silver medals from the beijing 2008 olympics will be produced and handed over to the beijing olympic committee. Yesterday morning, the sponsors of the beijing olympic and paralympic games ' diversity minerals and medals, and the president of the peitaku region of china, dai, firmly revealed that raw materials for the production of the beijing olympic medals had arrived in china and, after smelting, would be produced at the chinese bankmarks general company in shanghai。
Alpha presented the olympic medal
Raw materials: from chile and australia
According to a firm presentation by dai, the gold material for the beijing olympic medal comes from the chilean mine of escondida, and the silver material from the cannington mine in queensland, australia, which belongs to the same brethren corporation. The copper raw materials came from the spence mine in chile. The cannington mine had previously provided silver raw materials for the sydney olympics. The escondida mine is the world's largest producer of copper and one of the lowest-cost producers。
Usage: 1 ton of gold and silver will be spent
"the gold card is not pure gold, but pure silver plating." silver cards are 100 per cent pure silver, and 95-98 per cent of copper cards are copper, plus some zinc. Gold plating is required to weigh not less than 6 grams. “it is expected that 6,000 olympic medals will use 1 ton of gold and silver.”。
Production: completion next march/april
The director-general of the china district department of the bretton olympics project, buck kee-hye, has indicated that all trophy raw materials have now arrived in china by sea from their origin and are expected to enter the production phase next month. Dai firmly stated that when raw materials arrived in china, they would be smelted and then shipped to china bankmarks in shanghai for production。
The production of gold medals is more complex, and half-finished gold from the athens olympics was sent to a swiss laboratory for gold plating. Dai firmly stated that, since the beijing olympic medals were first designed in the name of "golden jade" and were very demanding for their production processes, the ooc, the bing and bing binghu companies and the designers would be conducting a rigorous clearance of the entire production process。
Tai also stated firmly that final medals, including 6,000 gold, silver, copper, and 40,000 medals for honours to coaches, referees and others, would be delivered to the beijing organizing committee next march and april。
