Everyone loves their gold. It depicts love, stability,individuality and hope. Whether it is bought by a loved one or by ourselves. taking care of it makes great sense as it obviously would make the gold retain it’s value. Here are a few tips to take care of your gold

First of all avoid chemicals. Chlorine is the worst opponent of Gold. Being exposing to chemical can lower the structure of the gold until in the end it is leading to breakage. So, you should keep away this kind of jewelry from chlorinated cleaning products. It is better to remove first your gold jewelry when you are doing household cleaning solutions but if you don’t like to you may use rubber gloves while doing this task.

If being exposed to chemical may weaken the structure of gold jewelry, being exposed to moisture, make up, perspiration and dust can lose the Gold luster as time passes by.
Putting your gold jewelry in proper storage is important like cleaning it. Protect it by placing it in a jewelry box wrapped in a soft cloth when you are not wearing it. Moreover, it is better to keep pieces of this jewelry in special boxes separately to avoid them from being scratched to one another.

Secondly, always check out for the weakness or damage of your gold jewelry. If you see even a small damage in it, go to your trusted professional jeweler. They are the one who can handle this problem and restore the brilliance of the jewelry for you.
Finally, To clean gold use ammonia. It is known to remove dirt and corrosion.

El Dorado (Spanish for “the golden one”) is the name of a Muisca tribal chief who covered himself with gold dust and, as an initiation rite, dived into the lake Guatavita. Later on, it became the name of the legendary “Lost City of Gold” that has fascinated and has eluded explorers since the days of the Spanish Conquistadors.

Imagined as a place, El Dorado became a kingdom, an empire, the city of this legendary golden king. Deluded by the legend, explorers like Francisco Orellana and Gonzalo Pizarro have failed to find this city which continues to be only a legend. El Dorado is applied to a legendary story in which precious stones were found in fabulous abundance along with gold coins. The concept of El Dorado underwent several transformations, and eventually accounts of the previous myth were also combined with those of the legendary city. The resulting El Dorado enticed European explorers for two centuries, and was eventually found to be in Colombia.

Numerous legends and stories have been written about it , Hollywood too seems to be in love with this “Golden City”. The recent Indiana Jones movie was based on the legend surrounding this golden city.

The city of gold continues to fascinate and elude people up to this day. The legend of El Dorado endures because “you want it to be true,” says Jose Oliver, a lecturer at the Institute of Archaeology at University College London. “I don’t think we’ve ever stopped seeking El Dorado.”

So where is this lost city of gold? In his 1849 poem “El Dorado,” writer Edgar Allan Poe offers an eerie and eloquent suggestion: “Over the Mountains of the Moon, down the Valley of the Shadow, ride, boldly ride…if you seek for El Dorado.”