Many years ago, we were out in the Arizona Sonora Desert and found a wash with particles in the sand that glittered yellow in the sunlight. We took some home and washed away the sand thinking we might have found gold. Fortunately, in those pre-internet days, we had access to a good library of books. Very quickly, we learned that iron pyrite glitters just like gold in the sunlight but gold is always gold even without light shining on it. The particles we found looked dull and worthless out of the sun hence the saying that all that glitters is not gold. The image above shows some real golden jewelry from the Rijksmuseum, the Museum of the Netherlands in Amsterdam.
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