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Volume 1, Issue 2
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Gold Nuggets of Knowledge

 Gold facts and trivia:

  • More than 80% of the gold in the Mother Lode is still in the ground.
  • In 1854 the largest gold nugget ever found was in California at Carson Hill above the Stanislaus River.  It weighed 195 pounds and was valued at $43,534 in the currency of the day.
  • An ounce of gold can be hammered into a square sheet 100 feet on each side or drawn into a wire that would stretch 5 miles.

Top 12 gold producing counties in California.

Each listed produced more than
$100,000,000 in gold from 1848-1965

Nevada
Amador
Tuolumne
Butte
Calaveras
Sierra
Yuba
Sacramento
Placer
El Dorado
Plumas
Siskiyou

$440,000,000
$200,000,000
$190,000,000
$150,000,000
$150,000,000
$150,000,000
$145,000,000
$135,000,000
$120,000,000
$110,000,000
$105,000,000
$100,000,000

 

Sources: The California Division of Mines and Geology; http://www.historichwy49.com/goldfact.html; http://www.nwma.org/Education/Gold%20Facts.htm

 

 

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