Hutchinson County Historical. Museum Mission. The purpose of the Hutchinson County Historical Museum is to collect, preserve, and to interpret the heritage of Hutchinson County, with particular emphasis on the oil field and boomtown story of the 1920-1930 era, for public benefit.
A few of the minerals that bear gold in their respective formulas are in a subclass of sulfides called the tellurides. The element gold seems to have an affinity for tellurium and this is one of the only elements that gold can bond with easily. In fact only a few rare tellurides are found without gold. A few of the tellurides are nagyagite, calaverite, sylvanite and krennerite. These are all minor ores of gold and their contributions to the supply of gold pales next to native gold's own contribution. Occasionally these minerals are associated with native gold.
But some Australian trees actually concentrate gold, that precious metal, into their leaves. How did the gold get there? The answer involves exploding stars, asteroids, bacteria, earthquakes, and lots of geology. All the gold ever mined would fit into a cube less than 21 metres on each side. Gold is a 'precious metal', with a price up around $60,000 per kilogram. Today, about half of it is used in jewellery, about 40 per cent for financial investments, and about 10 per cent for industrial uses.