 it's that time again the olympics are just around the corner with the first day of the games in paris beginning july 26 then athletes who have trained their entire lives for these moments chase the opportunity to snag gold or at least it looks like gold according to rohit pandey an assistant professor in virginia tech's department of mining and minerals engineering none of them will actually be solid gold instead they'll be silver metals with a gold plating on top so about six grams of gold all said and done