Gold

Gold. This valuable, shiny, dense element has been admired by billions of people for generations. One of the most common way to mine for gold is gold panning. The gold panning process consists of simply putting sand and gravel in a large pan and running water through it. The pans are then shaken and the sand and gravel fall out leaving any gold. The obsession for gold started long ago from the Indians to the Spanish to present day and years in between. When Cortes came to the America's he came in search of three things land, slaves, and most of all gold. Pizarro conquered the Inca empire killing nearly all of the Indians including the chief for gold. In 1849 the gold search continued when gold was discovered in California by James Marshall, this was the start of the California gold rush. Thousands of people came from the U.S (Mexico still owned California), Australia, and parts of Europe for a chance to find gold. Gold is an obsessive mineral that billions of people have searched, killed, and died for.