People of Laos love gold. They also buy it as an investment to hedge against currency depreciation. For that reason, it is important that the gold jewelry they buy is of real gold. Many stores' jewelry boast 99.99% purity. So, how can people be sure of that? The answer may lie in an open-air jewelry factory like the one in this video.
Next to Vientiane's largest mall lies an open-air gold jewelry factory where old jewelry is heat cleaned of foreign elements before being melted or reshaped into new jewelry. All done in the open for the world to see. Here, gold is torch melted to purity before reshaped into new jewelry.
It's fascinating to watch they people here work.
19 сен 2024
