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

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