Ancient Gold Facts
Believe it or not gold has an extensive occurrence in almost every country of the world and has been one of the biggest factors these places were explored to begin with and obviously settled in as well. Just to name some of
Ancient Gold Facts
Believe it or not gold has an extensive occurrence in almost every country of the world and has been one of the biggest factors these places were explored to begin with and obviously settled in as well. Just to name some of the places where ancient gold mines have been found we will mention some: Africa, Asia, Egypt, Spain, France, Great Britain, Yugoslavia, Romania, Greece, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Iran, India, China, Japan, and the U.S.S.R, United States of America and so forth, just to mention a few.
Ancient placers have produced gold from the rivers Tagus, Guadalquivir, Tiber, Po, Rhone, Rhine, Hebrus, Nile, Zambezi, Niger, Senegal, Pactolus, Oxus, Indus, Ganges, Lena, Aldan, Amur, Yangtze, and many, many more. The artisans of the first civilizations of Anatolia, Mesopotamia, and the Indus Valley worked in gold that had been found in many areas in the Caucasus and Middle Asia, the Middle East, and the Indian Peninsula.
The Egyptians used to mine gold comprehensively in eastern Egypt and Sudan as far back as four thousand years ago and it is said that the Persians, Romans and Greeks actually learned about the methods of how to do mining, prospecting, from the Egyptians. The Greeks and Romans mined gold ores from the extensive metalliferous areas that existed in their empires.
In comparison with the gold placers and mines of the Old World, those in areas of the New World might be just as ancient, even though it would seem that the aborigines of North and South America did not put a great amount of importance on gold outside of using it for their jewelry, and special ornaments and so forth. Columbus of Genoa found that the natives of Haiti had gold nuggets in 1492, and this was obviously something that thrilled the Spaniards to where they then decided to conquer Mexico and South America, where in 1550 they landed their own big find in the magnificent placer deposits of Colombia.
The Portuguese in Brazil also went after gold throughout the last half of the sixteenth century, but the dep