Family name: Transition Metals

Atomic number: 79

Period: 6

Group: 11

Atomic Mass: 196.966569

According to history, a total of eighty-eight thousand tons of gold have been extracted from the earth.

Gold is considered the world’s most precious metal; it is very rare compared with diamonds.

Common uses for Gold are, it can be used in jewelry, Computer hard drives, and in replacement teeth

The Inca's refered to gold as "The Suns Tears"

- Gold was discovered around 7500 B.C.

- Gold was first discovered in nugget form.

- The gold rush in California stared when a man named John Sutter discovered it at a sawmill in 1939.

- Sutter wanted to keep the Gold a secret but the word got out!

-By 1849 people from all over the states

-You can find gold by panning out rocks you find in a river

- You can also use a metal detctor to help find gold

- During the gold rush some men mined gold by using jack hammers and pickaxes