| Bahrain’s gold market has been booming over the last two years, according to official figures. The amount of gold jewellery, bars and other items sent for testing at the Gem and Pearl Testing Laboratory of Bahrain (GPTL) more than doubled from 6,000 at the end of 2013 to 13,000 at the end of last year.
Precious Metals and Gemstones Testing Directorate acting director Abeer Al Alawi said the number of items tested was much higher than any of the previous five years. “We maintained an average pace of around 5,000 items tested every year until 2012 and then there was a hike to 6,000 in 2013,”¯ she told the GDN...............................................Full Article: Source
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