Attleboro gold capital (Leach & Garner)

Yes, compared to gold it's peanuts. So we can use pure nickel underlayers. We usually use brass — copper, which is cheaper than nickel — but we use cupronickel and a lot of things, brass, and then we put gold on. In fact, Attleboro, Massachusetts is the gold capital of the world. In Sheffield, England, they came up with a way to braze silver to a base material, brass, and they could make silverplate. Now people could own — not sterling silver, but silverplate — dinnerware, and they could pretend they were rich. Then in Attleboro they said, oh, we can do this with gold. That made gold-filled material. There's a company down there used to be called Leach & Garner. I actually started consulting with them in 1980 or 1978. It was the sons, Phil Leach and Steve Garner, of the founders in 1899. The reason Attleboro is the gold capital of the world is because they had the mill that made all the stuff. When I was there, they had three continuous casters for gold. They went through seven tons of gold a year. That's why Attleboro is the gold capital of the world — because you're making composites. Makes you stay out of pure metals because of the costs, for jewelry.

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