AY Honors/Gold Prospecting/Answer Key

The requirements listed for this honor are those proposed to the NAD. The NAD has accepted the honor, but has not yet released the official requirements. It is not known whether the official requirements differ from the proposed requirements, but once that information is available, this page will be updated.

The NAD has recently adopted the practice of not releasing the official requirements (and answers) until after the honor patches have been received by AdventSource. This takes several months, so we expect to see the official documentation sometime in the summer of 2008. Releasing the information sooner (as has been done in the past) causes an undue burden on AdventSource, because they receive many phone calls asking about the tokens.

1. Create a list of equipment used for gold panning. Describe each item and tell what it is used for. The list should include at least the following.

a. Gold Pan

b. Classifier

c. Snuffer Bottle

d. Shovel

e. Pick

f. Bucket

g. Trowel

h. Pry bar

i. Rock hammer

j. Crevice Tool

k. Drinking Water

2. Define the following:

a. Pay Dirt

b. Quartz

c. Pyrite

d. Blond Sand

e. Black Sand

f. Placer

g. Lode

h. Nugget

i. Flake

j. Dust

k. Specific Gravity

l. Wet and Dry Panning

m. Mercury

n. Troy Pound

o. Troy Ounce

p. Penny weight (dwt)

q. Grain

r. Gold Fever

3. What are the following identifying characteristics of Gold.

a. Specific Gravity

b. Color of streak

c. Color

4. Where are some good places on a river or stream to look for gold.

5. Make a timeline containing at least 15 items about the history of gold prospecting from 1600 until the present day.

6. Learn about gold panning by doing one of the following:

a. Do some gold panning. (preferred).

b. Practice panning using flattened lead or tungsten shot mixed with sand (preferably from a river bank).

7. Look up the following verses in the Bible and discuss them in relation to prospecting for gold.

a. Matthew 13:44-46

b. Matthew 6:19-21