Randsburg (formerly Rand Camp) at an elevation of .
|source 2 = National Weather Service
History
thumb|left|Inside the Yellow Aster Saloon, Randsburg, California, ca.1900 The card game being played is [[Faro (card game)|Faro.]]
Gold was discovered by Frederic Mooers, John Singleton and Charles Burcham at Yellow Aster Mine on 25 April 1895 and a mining camp quickly formed named Rand Camp. Both mine and camp were named after the gold mining region in South Africa.