Gold isn't always yellow. Sometimes it has a reddish tint to it. Sometimes it's red with a tint of gold. Sometimes it's green, orange, yellow, or white. It can even be pink and rose. Obviously, when a piece of gold is one of these colors, the gold itself had been tainted with other elements. The following tables tell you just how much of what goes into which color of gold.

a	Table For 14K Gold

Color	Gold	Silver	Copper	Palladium	Nickel	Zinc	Cadmium
Red	58.5%	-	41.5%	-	-	-	-
Light Red	58.5%	12.5%	29%	-	-	-	-
Orange	58.5%	6%	35.5%	-	-	-	-
Deep Green	58.5%	37%	-	-	-	-	4.5%
Green	58.5%	35%	6.5%	-	-	-	-
Yellow	58.5%	-	41.5%	-	-	-	-
Light Yellow	58.5%	9%	28%	-	-	4.5%	-
White	58.5%	-	22.5%	-	12%	7%	-

a	Table For 10K Gold

Color	Gold	Silver	Copper	Palladium	Nickel	Zinc	Cadmium
Yellow	41.7%	20.3%	38%	-	-	-	-
White	41.7%	-	33%	-	17%	8.3%	-

a	Melting Temperatures

Wow! I didn't know all that stuff was in gold! Well, it is. But here's something else you might want to know. How do they mold, gold? As an example, how does gold get into the form of those gold bars? Gold gets melted. And we're not talking about leaving it out in the sun like an ice-cube, we're talking about intense concentrated heat. Below is a table of melting temperatures for your favorite metals.