Gold Information
This section concentrates on gold information such as gold and black sand
properties, locating gold areas, finding gold, identifying gold, gold found on
club claims and related gold information. Check back on occasion to see if something new has been added. Please email the webmaster if you have something to contribute.
Gold Pages
- Gold Facts such as the properties of gold
and black sands, weight conversions and historical gold prices.
- Specific Gravity test for the amount of
two minerals in a rock sample such as the amount of gold in a specimen
of gold in quartz.
- Locating Gold Areas by individual
research, joining a gold club and using Public Recreational Prospecting areas.
- AZ Gold Clubs lists contact information for
gold clubs that have claims in Arizona along with available information
on areas where these claims are located.
- US Gold Clubs lists information on other
gold clubs outside Arizona.
- Finding Gold focuses on how to find gold once
you are in a gold bearing area.
- Identifying Gold gives tips on differentiating
between gold and minerals that could be mistaken for gold.
- Finding and Identifying Meteorites is not directly
gold related but hopefully will give a new respect for "hot rocks".
- Gold Finds shows photos of gold, and other
interesting items, found by club members on DGD claims. (123 KB)
- Gold nuggets on display at the 2007 Tucson Gem and
Mineral Show, featuring gold from Australia. (169 KB)
- Gold nuggets on display at the 2004 Tucson Gem and
Mineral Show, some from Arizona. (228 KB)
- Selling Gold is for those lucky few who find
so much gold that they wish to convert some to cash.
- Shor International is a company that makes an acid-free refining system that results in 0.9995 pure gold.
Please send any comments and suggestions on these pages to the DGD Webmaster
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This page was last updated on 18 September 2010.