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Gold was discovered a long time before Mendelejev submitted his ideas in the 'Periodic Table of elements'. So this can't have been the earliest discovery.

Gold is already known from Egyptian hieroglyphs (2600 BC). In Egypt and especially Nubia were the earliest gold-producing areas. The earliest known map is known as the Turin Papyrus Map and shows the plan of a gold mine in Nubia together with indications of the local geology (cit. from wikipedia).

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