by RoaringCampGold | Jan 18, 2017 | Gold
Part of the fun of searching for gold in California is knowing just how rare it is. The history of gold points to a lot of other unique discoveries. After all, there are metals out there even more valuable than gold. Here are a handful that are even rarer! Iridium:...
by RoaringCampGold | Jan 4, 2017 | Gold
How did the California Gold Rush start? We often imagine miners coming up with a hunk of gold, but no – that’s not how it happened. On January 24, 1848, James Wilson Marshall discovered gold flakes in the American River in Coloma. Marshall was helping to build a...
by RoaringCampGold | Dec 28, 2016 | Gold
We bet there’s a lot you don’t know about gold. Here are four facts that help tell gold’s story. Did you know: If you took all the gold that’s ever been mined out of the ground, more than 90-percent of it was extracted after the Gold Rush of...
by RoaringCampGold | Dec 14, 2016 | Gold
Think you know about gold? Every now and then, we like to drop a few new facts that help us remember how important and unique gold is. We hold these close to our hearts, since gold in California is part of our state heritage. Here are 8 of our favorites: Every hour,...
by RoaringCampGold | Dec 7, 2016 | Gold
You may be surprised the first time you hold a nugget of gold. Even knowing it will be heavy beforehand, you’ll be surprised at how weighty it actually is. How is this? What is it that makes gold so heavy in the first place? Gold is classified as a heavy metal...
by RoaringCampGold | Nov 23, 2016 | Gold
Why is it that gold became the most standard measure of value across all societies? Why wasn’t it some other ore? The most obvious answer is that gold is so rare – and this is true, but it’s only part to a larger puzzle. Long ago, societies used barter...
