Dan and I got to go the March outing and had a great time
with everyone there. The potluck was great! So much really
good food and the members were so excited about being out
in the open. But it got just a little cold Saturday night.
WE had a great meeting with the Superstition Search and
Rescue there, we all have to be careful while being out in
the mountains and its good to know that these guys are ready
to go find us if we get lost! We can’t thank them enough for the job they do.
We hope all of you going home, have a safe trip and we
look forward to seeing you back next season.
Remember that in May we will be raffling off that pretty
nugget, so be sure to get into the drawing.
Word Origin: Sanskrit Jval; Anglo-Saxon gold;
meaning gold - also Latin aurum, shining dawn
Isotopes: There are 18 isotopes of gold. Gold-198,
with a half-life of 2.7 days, has been used to
treat cancer and other illnesses.
Density (g/cc): 19.3
Melting Point (°K): 1337.58
Boiling Point (°K): 3080
Appearance: soft, malleable, yellow metal
Atomic Radius (pm): 146
Fine gold is so malleable that it can be
beaten down to a thickness of 1112µ (.0001112 mm)
into translucent gold leaf, so that one ounce
(31.1 gr.) of it will cover about 16 square meters!
