Discover facts about gold, its history and use.

• Encarta - gold
• Encyclopaedia Britannica - gold, gold mining and gold rushes
• InfoPlease - gold

• Australian Prospecting Community

• Gold and gold rushes

• Gold news from the World Gold Council

Other Links:

Australian Gold Rush
Access information and links about the history of gold rushes throughout Australia.

Gold!
This is a highly detailed and interactive site about the gold rush in Victoria, looking at life on the goldfields and how gold was mined.

Minerals Downunder
From Geoscience Australia comes this site that looks at the mining of gold and other metals and minerals in Australia, including how deposits are found and extracted.

Web Elements - gold
This site gives scientific information about gold as an element and metal.

Windows on Victoria - Gold!
Discover information about the the Victorian gold rush of the 1850s from this Museum of Victoria site.

World Gold Council
Find out about gold in the present and the past using the Discover page of this organisation's glossy site.

Directories

• Open Directory - gold
• Yahoo! gold