I can't ignore my chemistry stuff I learned in class, even though you probably already know this.  Unless you're doing alchemy (which is one of its goals, and that can only happen in fictionland), you can't create gold from other chemicals.  It's always a balanced equation that uses the same elements and the same amounts of the reactants as the products, which you can balance with coefficients.  You cannot flat-out throw a new element to other side without balancing, that completely ignores one of the scientific laws saying you can't create or destroy mass.  All you can do is form new compounds or break them apart.

Sorry for that, on topic now.

Yeah, that kind of proves my point about research.  You have to research how tracking works, even if you don't want to delve more than two sentences to it, just learn about tracking to the point you know what you're talking about and the other roleplayers and potential lurkers can visualize it some.