Those people pushing the "lab-made gold" fantasy are wildly ignorant of both physics and economics. And their comparison of lab-made diamonds is a failed comparison for a simple reason: Gold is an ELEMENT. Diamonds are just rearranged CARBON (diamonds are molecules, not an element). Making elements is far more difficult than rearranging carbon atoms. The inputs needed to make "lab-made gold" are wildly expensive mercury 198 + deuterium + tritium + lots of power, run through a facility that doesn't exist and would require billions of dollars to build. The mercury input alone is far above the value of the gold produced. mercury-198 + neutron → mercury-197 + two neutrons → gold-197 Mercury-198 is currently priced at over $14,000 per mg. That's over $450 million per ounce. Even if you can turn that into pure gold, you have just created the world's most expensive gold at $450 million per ounce. If you want gold at $450 million per ounce, I've got lots of ounces to sell you right now. Just wire to my account and I'll get you all the gold ounces you want! Adding even more fun to the matter, the gold comes out with RADIOACTIVE trace elements blended in. So you're not creating usable gold, you're creating essentially dirty bomb material. It wouldn't even be legal to sell such gold for at least 18 years, to allow the half life of radioisotopes to fall to acceptable levels. The company claiming this breakthrough has not conducted a demonstration and has not published anything quantifying yield, purity, recovery efficiency, energy consumption, production cost, or anything else. Idiots all over social media think $450 million per ounce of gold will crash gold prices to zero. Somehow. They obviously can't do basic math. It's FAR CHEAPER to dig gold out of the ground, which is exactly what gold mining has been doing for centuries. Your gold assets are perfectly safe. Protected by the laws of physics and the cosmic scarcity of the gold element, which was created in exploding stars via FUSION.