• Minerals: MedlinePlus

    Your body uses minerals to build bones, make hormones, and regulate your heartbeat. Read about the types of minerals and how to get them.

  • Mineral - Wikipedia

    A mineral is a naturally occurring chemical compound, ... The gold group, with a cubic close-packed structure, includes metals such as gold, silver, and copper.

  • Gold Mineral | Uses and Properties

    Native gold is an element and a mineral. It is highly prized by people because of its attractive color, resistance to tarnish, and its many special properties - some ...

  • Gold - Mine Engineer

    A mineral is a naturally occuring, ... Some elements that occur naturally and are minerals are arsenic, bismuth, platinum, gold, silver, copper, and sulphur.

  • Gold in Maryland

    Gold in Maryland. by Karen R. Kuff, 1987 . ... gold has often been noted as a minor accessory mineral. The accompanying maps show old gold mines, ...

  • How to Detect Gold in Minerals

    How to detect gold in loose alluvial ground has been already described. A similar method may be employed in the case of auriferous quartz after grinding it. If the ...

  • Gold | Minerals Education Coalition

    The meaning of its name is unknown, although its origins are Anglo-Saxon. Gold is a soft, shiny, yellow metal, and has been used and highly valued by human

  • Maine Geological Survey: Gold in Maine

    Gold in Maine. Gold occurs in several geologic environments in ... but some old gold mines are listed in a two-volume series entitled "Maine Mines and Minerals", ...

  • Gold Mineral Data

    Gold Silver. Comments: Very well crystallized Electrum (Silver rich gold) on quartz. The analysis gave 31.47% silver. Location: Verespatak (now Rosia Montana ...

  • Gold - Wikipedia

    Native gold occurs as very small to microscopic particles embedded in rock, often together with quartz or sulfide minerals such as "Fool's Gold", which is ...