Harold Bouffard9 age 13, of Maynard, Mass.,

Is there a U.S, state that mines gold?

South Africa is the treasure trove of the world’s diamonds and gold. Most of the diamonds and over a third of all the gold are mined there. Rizssla and Canada take second and third place in world gold output. Next in line is the United States of America. Over six million ounces are mined in the U.S. and Alaska in an average year, That is over 175 tons of gold

California, the Golden State, is first in gold output. Utah, South Dakota and Colorado follow in that order. Most of this gold is taken from deep in gold bearing quartz rock. This gold occurs in veins or lodes. Nuggets of pure gold of various sizes are still found tucked in the earth. But most of the placer gold has already been taken,

Placer gold is found sprinkled through sand and gravel in flakes and grains, a stream of water over the mixture swirls away the dross and the heavy gold is left at the; bottom. This easy gold mining is mostly a thing of the past. Nowadays we have to dig for gold deep in the ground and even then it is often mixed with other ores.