Major Industries
Gold Mines
- Gold is the states mineral of Alaska even though it is delicate is most malleable metal. It can melted down into exrtreamly thin sheets of gold leaf. Only sliver and copper which are above it is group of the periodic table are better electrical conductors. Gold is chemicaly inactive. It is unaffected by mositures, oxygen, ordinary acids , but is attacked by the halogens. Aqua Regia (a mixtures of nitric and hydrochloric acid that librate's chlorine) is so named for and auric (travalent)compound auric chloride and chloraufolic acid are its most common compounds.