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=__GOLD__= media type="file" key="19.wav" width="300" height="50" I chose gold because gold has allot of facts and I wanted to find a few out. Raw gold looks like there is snow around a golden ball. But the snow is really quartz and the golden ball is really of course gold. Gold forms when silver, iron, and copper meet together. When that happens you get new born gold. Gold can be very soft. On the Mohs' hardness scale gold is 2.5-3. Gold and pyrite look allot alike that is why pyrite is also known as fools gold. But the way you can tell gold is gold and not pyrite is pyrite crumbles when you pick it up in your hand. Now you know why I chose gold, but there are still allot of facts about gold that I would like to know.

__Comments from Teachers during the research process:__
 * Note from Mr. Kleyn. Question one was a great question. Who were the first people in history to find and use gold? I think question two was more or less the same question, so I've combined them for question one. Question two is strong too. Come up with two more!

Note from Mr. VanOrden - I like question one too! I can't wait to see what else you find out about gold. Did you know gold is sometimes called a "soft metal." I wonder why that is?

Note from Mrs. Smith: I've always wondered about fool's gold. You've done an excellent job of explaining where gold comes from. I can see why you would want to do more research on this valuable mineral!