According to some scientists YOU! Yes you can make your 1 Ton gold. All you need is to put together a hobby sized Hadron Collider. ABC link here. We're good as long as you don't accidentally create a black hole singularity. I don't know how much it cost to build or how many Neodymium magnets you need, I may have seen a Popular Mechanics DIY HC plans somewhere on the internet.

!PIMP