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goldminer | 04-29-2006 03:10 PM
Gold-bearing areas in the Eastern U.S. Name a state and I'll provide a list of counties and more specific locations if I know them, where colors have historically been found. If they've been found there in the past, there is still gold there today: guaranteed! You don't need much to get started: a good (not too heavy) long handled shovel, a 3 or 5-gallon plastic pail, and a $10.00 gold pan. You can get pans for as little as $4.00 but I would discourage anybody from doing so. They are too flimsy and don't have a good riffle system of gold traps.

cb&julie | 04-29-2006 03:14 PM
Re: Gold-bearing areas in the Eastern U.S. Quote:
Originally Posted by goldminer Name a state and I'll provide a list of counties and more specific locations if I know them, where colors have historically been found. If they've been found there in the past, there is still gold there today: guaranteed! You don't need much to get started: a good (not too heavy) long handled shovel, a 3 or 5-gallon plastic pail, and a $10.00 gold pan. You can get pans for as little as $4.00 but I would discourage anybody from doing so. They are too flimsy and don't have a good riffle system of gold traps.
Alabama and Georgia

goldminer | 04-29-2006 03:45 PM
Re: Gold-bearing areas in the Eastern U.S. These are from a WORD document...hope there isn't too much computer gobbly-gook language & symbols when they wrap around to post. And hope this helps you and yours. Alabama: Counties of Chilton, Clay, Cleburne, Coosa, Elmore, Randolph, Tallapoosa, and Talledega. Prospect streams in the Clanton area. Georgia: Counties of Barrow, Cherokee, Cobb, Coweta, Dawson, Douglas, Elberta, Forsyth, Fulton, Gilmer, Gwinnett, Habersham, Hall, Haralson, Hart, Henry, Lincoln, Lumpkin, Madison, McDuffie, Meriweather, Newton, Oglethorpe, Paulding, Rabun, Towns, Union, Walton, Warren, White, and Wilkes.

electric-amish | 04-29-2006 03:53 PM
Re: Gold-bearing areas in the Eastern U.S. If you could I'd like to know about Missouri. Thanks E-A

silverJeep | 04-29-2006 04:15 PM
Re: Gold-bearing areas in the Eastern U.S. Hows about eastern TN?

goldminer | 04-29-2006 09:15 PM
Re: Gold-bearing areas in the Eastern U.S. Missouri: Counties of Adair (watch for diamonds), Chariton, Linn, Livingston, Macon, Putnam, Randolph, and Schuyler. Gold most often recovered in Missouri is sized fine to flour. Glacial movement from the area that is now called Iowa deposited these colors. Tennessee: Counties of Blount, Monroe, and Polk. Along the TN/NC state line.

jaylynn | 04-29-2006 09:21 PM
Re: Gold-bearing areas in the Eastern U.S. how about new hampshire

goldminer | 04-29-2006 09:36 PM
Re: Gold-bearing areas in the Eastern U.S. New Hampshire: Prospect the following waterways and their tributaries: Carroll County: Ellis and Swift Rivers; Cheshire County Ashuelot River, Coos County: Dead Diamond and Swift Diamond Rivers, and Clear, Indian, and Perry Streams; Grafton County: Ammonoosuc, Wild Ammonoosuc, Mad, Upper Mad, Salmon, Baker, Gale, and Bebee Rivers; Sullivan: Cold River. Also be sure to sample along the Connecticut River and its tributaries. Many stream and bench gravels are good panning prospects, particularly in the northern and western parts of the state, and waterways that drain eastern slopes.

melbo | 04-29-2006 09:42 PM
Re: Gold-bearing areas in the Eastern U.S. Tennessee I'm a mile away from Blount... Worth panning my 3 streams?

goldminer | 04-29-2006 10:47 PM
Re: Gold-bearing areas in the Eastern U.S. All of the TN gold I know about is located along a NE/SW line adjacent to the NC state line. A guy never knows about a creek until he prospects it. Good luck...and if you find any nuggets I need to know where you're diggin! Sample spots where flood currents would have been slowed so colors could fall out and deposit. Try the inside of bends, downstream side of boulders, cracks in bedrock, upper end of gravel bars. Bigger colors will always be deeper. Look for black sands. These are actually brown iron ores and oxides that when wet look black. A stream that contains black sands may also contain gold. Very seldom will any gold be found in an area that does not contain black sands.

melbo | 04-29-2006 10:56 PM
Re: Gold-bearing areas in the Eastern U.S. Thanks. Next time your up this way... We can take a walk... I'll bring lunch and snax, you keep what we find and then I'll know what to look for

SilverNuts@Bolts | 04-29-2006 10:59 PM
Re: Gold-bearing areas in the Eastern U.S. How about Nevada, not the casinos...

RossL | 04-29-2006 11:00 PM
Re: Gold-bearing areas in the Eastern U.S. Is there any in Ohio?

Ardent Listener | 04-29-2006 11:29 PM
Re: Gold-bearing areas in the Eastern U.S. Quote:
Originally Posted by RossL Is there any in Ohio?
Big salt mine near Cleveland.:D

goldminer | 04-30-2006 07:44 AM
Re: Gold-bearing areas in the Eastern U.S. Nevada I can't help you much with. Am sorry but have never prospected there. You might want to pull up the Gold Prospectors of America (GPAA) web sight, click on forum and post your question there. I'm sure there are hundreds of folks who can help you regarding locations in NV and other western states. Ohio = "Round on each end and hi in the middle"....Ah..........Big-Ten Country. I'm a Buckeye from the top of my head to the tip of my toes though haven't been back there in a number of years. My dad was a prof. at OSU and my mom was a geologist. I cheer for ANYONE who plays Michigan! There's some pretty good gold in Ohio. Several glaciers brought millions upon millions of tons of surface materials including gold, down from the north and created what are called "morains" (glacial drifts which are materials that piled up either under the glacial or in front of it, and were left as the temps warmed causing the glacier to receed). The best thing to do is to pull up a geological glacial map to find out where these "drifts" are located. Then work the waterways that cut through them. Glacial gold is scattered...it's very hard to find concentrated deposits except in waterways that over the years have eroded away drift materials and concentrated them in the stream. I found some pretty nice nuggets when I was a kid, and have seen a number that were bigger then the ones I found. Just remember that because gold is so comparatively heavy, a "nugget" (a color that won't pass through a 10-mesh screen = 10 holes per linear inch; most window screen is about 18-19 mesh) will seldom ever be moved by flood waters, more than 1500 feet from the point that it erodes (from the banks or ground where it has been deposited for eons) into a stream. In the Buckeye state gold can be found in small quantities virtually throughout the glaciated two-thirds of Ohio. This is because glacier gold tends to be scattered rather then deposited in significant concentrations. During the 1800�s and early 1900�s there were commercial gold mining efforts in both Clermont and Richland Counties, and in several areas in the north-central part of the state. Colors are also readily found in the Scioto River as far south as Portsmouth. Gold has been found in the counties of Adams, Ashland, Bellmont, Brown, Butler, Carroll: Stanley Creek; Clermont: Stonelick Creek; Columbiana, Cuyahoga, Fayette, Franklin, Gallia, Green, Guernsey, Highland, Hocking, Huron, Knox, Licking, Mahoning: Middle Fork of Little Beaver Creek; Montgomery, Morgan, Richland: Deadman�s Run; Ross: Buckskin and Paint Creeks; Seneca, Warren, and Wayne. Good hunting; "may you and yours always find colors in your pan".

martinmayhem | 04-30-2006 07:53 AM
Re: Gold-bearing areas in the Eastern U.S. Indiana? It would probably be a similar story to Ohio.

searcher | 04-30-2006 08:51 AM
Re: Gold-bearing areas in the Eastern U.S. Anything in the southeastern area? Particularly Bucks County? Thanks and have a great day!

goldminer | 04-30-2006 10:50 AM
Re: Gold-bearing areas in the Eastern U.S. Yes, Indiana gold is glacial like Ohio's...it was brought down from the north. Check the streams that cut through moraines in the counties of Brown: most all streams; Carroll, Cass, Clark, Clinton, Deerborn, Franklin, Green, Harrison, Henry, Jackson, Jefferson, Jennings, Knox, Monroe, Montgomery, Morgan: most all streams; Ohio, Owen, Pike, Putnam, Sullivan, Vanderburg, Vermillion, Warren, and Wayne. Most streams in the Counties of central and north Indiana contain colors and load specimens have been reported in the northeast part of the state. Additionally prospect the many tributaries of the Wabash River, and with a permit, in the Morgan-Monroe State Forest. In all glacial country as reported above, "load specimens" can be found. These are pieces of quartz which have included gold because the gold has not yet been freed by nature. A "load" is the vein in which solidified gold was formed. The quartz vein (origin of gold) is what the old-timers called "the mother load". There isn't much gold down in the southern part of the state that I know about...but who knows? Prospect the creeks...check your pan for black sands and then gold. If no black sands are present in the watershed, then it is likely that there is no gold either, but....ah, the "chase!". Prospectors have a lot of sayings that are important. One of them is "Gold is where you find it". The statement sounds facetious but it isn't; it's serious. How land and waterways exist today is NOT how they existed hundreds to thousands of millions of years ago....so gold may have located most anywhere in glacial and mineralized geographic areas. A couple of examples: The main rivers in PA used to all flow north; all the rivers in the Appalachian region used to flow west. Much of the sands in the Grand Canyon originated in the Appalachian region in the eastern U.S.

Tn...Andy | 04-30-2006 11:19 AM
Re: Gold-bearing areas in the Eastern U.S. Silver Jeep: There was a book published by Over Mountain Press ( still in JC ) called "Silver in the Unakas".....which are the mountain in Carter County near you. Interesting book about a fabled silver mine that is supposed to lie in those mountains. Fellow named Jonathan Swift supposely worked it and even minted his own silver dollars at one time. Was brought up on counterfeiting charges, which were dismissed when it was shown his 'dollar' contained more silver than the US Mint was putting in theirs....ahahahahaaa

Darkside | 04-30-2006 11:47 AM
Re: Gold-bearing areas in the Eastern U.S. Anything in New York?

Mined Games | 04-30-2006 11:53 AM
Re: Gold-bearing areas in the Eastern U.S. Thanks for the offer Goldminer. I spend a lot of time in the state of Maine and was wondering if you had any info on that state? And is Rhode Island a stretch? Also. I was wondering if you thought there might be any Ag content in beach sand. It seems to me that glacial grinding would produce sand that contained a cross-sampling of all minerals, metals and rock types. And if there were any AG content in sand, do you think it could be extracted in any way? Might the Ag particles sift to the bottom of a panful of sand if sufficiently shaken? Appreciate any and all input Goldminer!

goldminer | 04-30-2006 12:18 PM
Re: Gold-bearing areas in the Eastern U.S. I'll post these states but then am leaving to do a workshop in VA. Won't be back until Friday evening...good Lord willing. In Wisconsin, gold has been found in the waterways in the counties of Ashland, Bayfield, Clark, Dane, Douglas, Dunn, Eau Claire, Forest, Iron, Lafayette, Kenosha, Marathon, Marinette, Onieda, Pierce, Polk, Rusk, and Taylor.Fine and flour colors can probably be found in placers in any county. Glacial sediments contain amounts of gold and most streams have glacial sediment. Diamonds have been found along Plum Creek in Pierce County and may exist elsewhere in that area. In New York gold can be recovered in the waterways that draine the Adirondack and Catskill Mountain Regions. Load gold (hard rock quartz veins) have also been found in NY. Maine stream and bench gravels (a "bench" is an old stream bed located above a current stream if it still exists, where the waterway changed course and erroded in another direction leaving the old bed high and dry...look for rounded waterborne [alluvial] gravels and rocks) are good panning prospects, particularly in the waterways that drain the eastern slopes: Counties of Aroostook, Cumberland, Franklin, Hancock, Kennebeck, Knox, Oxford, Penobscot, Somerset, Waldo, and Washington. In Rhode Island, the only gold I know about is in the streams in Providence County. Hope this helps 'ya-all. Have a great week!

samwheat | 04-30-2006 12:24 PM
Re: Gold-bearing areas in the Eastern U.S. notheast PA? plenty of black gold (coal) here

GOLD DUCK | 04-30-2006 12:49 PM
Re: Gold-bearing areas in the Eastern U.S. QWAK,How about an extreamly rich SILVER mine that has been lost since the around 1900? HUMmmmmm?? Ware I live is out in the boonies but it has a very long history going back to the native americans who concidered this a sacrid place. Befor the European settlers came in THEY had a SILVER mine that had/has ore so rich it could be smelted with primitive tecniques. Once the naitives were killed or run off or died from diseases, the mine was taken over and remained in production untill late in the CIVAL WAR when it was hidden because the SOUTH was losing and they did not want the YANKIES to get it. After the cival war the family who owned the mine got involved with an OUT LAW GANG that ROBED the Butterfield stage line (my cabin is on a road that was part of the Butterfield stage line road). One of the roberies got the out laws somthing very special ---- a set of DIES for US SILVER DOLLARS that was being sent to the Denver mint. The out laws were no fools and with a sorce for SILVER they began MINTING counterfit US SILVER DOLLARS with a higher SILVER content than the official US SILVER DOLLARS! :) This continued for many years untill they got word that the SECRET SERVICE was closing in on them. A map was made and the entrence to the mine blown up to hide it. All gang members split up agreeing to return years later once things had cooled down. When the alloted time had passed at the reunion things got UGLY and very violent several got dead and the map disapeared! Today there are many decendents of the family that owned the mine still in the aeria,they are generly poor but every time some one like my self buys land and discovers an old well on their land one of the members of the family will show up to see if the LOST SILVER MINE has been found! I found an old covered over and filled in well next to my cabin and THAT is how I heard this story! My question is WHAT should a person look for as indications that mining HAD gone on in the passed? Also what sort of rock formations would be an indication that SILVER could posably be found! Got to admit it would be way beyond COOL to find out that this rockey land I bought turned out to have a old SILVER MINE on it!:ARMS1: :albertein As far as I have been able to find out this is a 100% TRUE story and I have seen old news paper clipimgs that have mentioned this OUT LAW GANG in this aeria! BTW: I have been contacted twice in the last year by a company that wants to DRILL for OIL and GAS and others have accepted the pittly amounts they were offering which for my 40 achers was about $300.00 and I told them what is under and on MY LAND belongs to ME and in the future can only become MORE VALUABLE so thanks but NO THANKS!:albertein the DUCK

goldminer | 04-30-2006 01:39 PM
Re: Gold-bearing areas in the Eastern U.S. samwheat, In PA gold has been found in the Counties of Adams, Bucks, Chester, Lancaster, Lebanon, Montgomery, Susquehanna, Tioga, Wyoming, and York. Prospect the Susquehanna River and its tributaries, and all the glacial streams that flow in northeast and northwest. Gold has been found mostly in the mountainous area. Expect to find small nuggets on occasion but primarily medium, fine, and flour colors. Sample the Tuckhannock River and tributary creeks that run southwest through Susquehanna and Wyoming Counties, and the northern Northampton and southern Monroe County areas. Also prospect the waterways aroundWyalusing, New Albany, White Haven, Harrisburg, Reading, Knuckle Town, Sweden Valley, Noxen, and southeast of Hanover. Noteworthy is the fact that Geologists report that prior to the last ice age, the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers instead of joining to form the Ohio River running south, flowed independently in a northern direction and drained into Lake Erie. Also noteworthy is that the most notable significant glacial features in Pennsylvania are the moraines that stretch on a jagged line from near Sayre on the New York state line, southeast to a point just south of Stroudsburg on the New Jersey line. GOLD DUCK, I have never prospected or mined for silver so I can't help you much with Ag except to say that I did fine a few nuggets in MI a few years ago. By far most gold was formed in microscopic particles, but also in visible gold. And while gold nuggets are rare (there are more diamonds found than gold nuggets) silver nuggets and other visible silver particles are by far more rare. This is because virtually all silver was formed in microscopic particles that are located in large mineralized zones and in hard rock ("ore"). What this means for the average prospector is that unlike gold, it's nearly impossible to "pan" or otherwise recover silver because you can't see the particles. Subsequently all silver mining is done in commericial operations which is VERY expensive prospecting and mining, and thus beyond most of us. Too, 90% of silver is mined as a bi-product in gold, lead, copper, and zinc mining operations rather than as a primary metal.

GOLD DUCK | 04-30-2006 04:30 PM
Re: Gold-bearing areas in the Eastern U.S. QWAK,goldminer,The Well I found next to my cabin was in solid rock! I live on a mountan ridge and there is only about 18" of dirt more rocks than dirt and it is RED sand stone and the water has incredable amount of Iron in it. There is also gray shale rock I know was mentioned when thet doug or blasted a highway tonnel a fiew years back. The well was about 6' in diamiter and I cleard it out about 20' down and it was narrowing at that point. Some one at some time did a whole lot of work to make THAT whole in the ground! I wore out several hammer drill bits trying to drill holes in it. It is a lot harder than I thought sand stone would be! Basicly I have cleared off a 30' by 40' aeria down to the sand stone bed rock and it is my bath room/greenhouse aeria, sand stone peals off in layers but at about 2' down the layer is at least 3' thick! It is my understanding that the COMSTOCK SILVER LOAD started as a failing GOLD mining operation and some one tested a blue/gray mud muck that was cloging every thing up and found almost accidently a RICH SILVER LOAD! I don't have a clue what I should look for as an indication of an old mining operation or what SILVER ore would look like. the DUCK

silverJeep | 05-01-2006 09:27 PM
Re: Gold-bearing areas in the Eastern U.S. Quote:
Originally Posted by Tn...Andy Silver Jeep: There was a book published by Over Mountain Press ( still in JC ) called "Silver in the Unakas".....which are the mountain in Carter County near you. Interesting book about a fabled silver mine that is supposed to lie in those mountains. Fellow named Jonathan Swift supposely worked it and even minted his own silver dollars at one time. Was brought up on counterfeiting charges, which were dismissed when it was shown his 'dollar' contained more silver than the US Mint was putting in theirs....ahahahahaaa
Thanks Andy, I'll look for it (the book, not the mine). Went to a garage sale here on Powder Branch last weekend at a log cabin. The girl that lived there said it was built in 1787, and it came with the family ledger telling the history of Powder Branch (where they made gun powder in the civil war) and even included maps of the mines they mined the elements. Was very interesting. Might go back and ask to see the maps???????? Incidentally, that's where I picked up the 4 sterling knives for a buck. I love this area.

gjc | 05-02-2006 02:15 AM
Re: Gold-bearing areas in the Eastern U.S. How about California?

Darkside | 05-02-2006 11:33 AM
Re: Gold-bearing areas in the Eastern U.S. Quote:
Originally Posted by gjc How about California?
"Dare be gold in dem dar hills"

gjc | 05-02-2006 11:41 AM
Re: Gold-bearing areas in the Eastern U.S. HAHAHAHAHA, I just realized that the thread title says "Eastern U.S." my bad. I guess I kind of ignored that and read the first sentence of the post, which said: Name a state and I'll provide a list of counties and more specific locations

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Ardent Listener | 05-02-2006 07:18 PM
Re: Gold-bearing areas in the Eastern U.S. Quote:
Originally Posted by goldminer Nevada I can't help you much with. Am sorry but have never prospected there. You might want to pull up the Gold Prospectors of America (GPAA) web sight, click on forum and post your question there. I'm sure there are hundreds of folks who can help you regarding locations in NV and other western states. Ohio = "Round on each end and hi in the middle"....Ah..........Big-Ten Country. I'm a Buckeye from the top of my head to the tip of my toes though haven't been back there in a number of years. My dad was a prof. at OSU and my mom was a geologist. I cheer for ANYONE who plays Michigan! There's some pretty good gold in Ohio. Several glaciers brought millions upon millions of tons of surface materials including gold, down from the north and created what are called "morains" (glacial drifts which are materials that piled up either under the glacial or in front of it, and were left as the temps warmed causing the glacier to receed). The best thing to do is to pull up a geological glacial map to find out where these "drifts" are located. Then work the waterways that cut through them. Glacial gold is scattered...it's very hard to find concentrated deposits except in waterways that over the years have eroded away drift materials and concentrated them in the stream. I found some pretty nice nuggets when I was a kid, and have seen a number that were bigger then the ones I found. Just remember that because gold is so comparatively heavy, a "nugget" (a color that won't pass through a 10-mesh screen = 10 holes per linear inch; most window screen is about 18-19 mesh) will seldom ever be moved by flood waters, more than 1500 feet from the point that it erodes (from the banks or ground where it has been deposited for eons) into a stream. In the Buckeye state gold can be found in small quantities virtually throughout the glaciated two-thirds of Ohio. This is because glacier gold tends to be scattered rather then deposited in significant concentrations. During the 1800�s and early 1900�s there were commercial gold mining efforts in both Clermont and Richland Counties, and in several areas in the north-central part of the state. Colors are also readily found in the Scioto River as far south as Portsmouth. Gold has been found in the counties of Adams, Ashland, Bellmont, Brown, Butler, Carroll: Stanley Creek; Clermont: Stonelick Creek; Columbiana, Cuyahoga, Fayette, Franklin, Gallia, Green, Guernsey, Highland, Hocking, Huron, Knox, Licking, Mahoning: Middle Fork of Little Beaver Creek; Montgomery, Morgan, Richland: Deadman�s Run; Ross: Buckskin and Paint Creeks; Seneca, Warren, and Wayne. Good hunting; "may you and yours always find colors in your pan".
Thank you. I don't know who is going to be more excited with this news, me or my wife's 4th grade class!

Barrister | 05-03-2006 09:56 AM
Re: Gold-bearing areas in the Eastern U.S. Any info on Iowa?

goldminer | 05-06-2006 10:11 AM
Re: Gold-bearing areas in the Eastern U.S. gjc - Google search "The New 49'ers". They have a great california website that includes forums. Post your question there and you'll probably get more informtion than you want.

goldminer | 05-06-2006 10:30 AM
Re: Gold-bearing areas in the Eastern U.S. Gold Duck, As I posted, I have never prospected or mined silver, but I understand that the deposits are locked within other sedimentary-like (unconsolidated = not solid) surface materials..."blue/gray clay" (which may well be old volcanic dust?) and other such materials in a gereralized deposit in highly mineralized areas. This would suggest to me that the old-timers you are talking about probably found such a deposit and drift mined into it (a "drift" is a horizontal tunner as opposed to a "shaft" which is a vertical tunnel) shoring up the overhead and sides with timbers, and the drift mined different directions along the level at which the deposit was located. If this is true, then if the mine entrance were blown up, in that specific location there should be surface ground materials that are structured different then the materials in the immediate area around where the entrance was located. Also, the miners would have had to muck (shovel) and haul out all the materials that were removed as they tunneled. All of these materials that were not Ag would have been dumped nearby in what are called "tailing" piles. Perhaps in a natural depression so they would not be readily noticable at the time? All those tailings are still there, and they will be different then the natural materials that cover the surface in the immediate area. I would start looking for the tailing piles first, and when I found them I would then start searching for a (maybe 15-20') area of materials that don't look naturally settled (maybe 100+ plus years ago vs. milions and millions of years). A guy will need a shovel to dig test holes. But once the tailing piles are located, you can bet the old mine entrance will not be very far away. It was very hard work and time consuming to haul out the muck...the miners would not have hauled them any further than what they needed. When you think you may have found the old "blown-up" entrance, start excavating and looking for old pieces of timber that was used for shoring. Hope this helps.

GOLD DUCK | 05-06-2006 11:08 AM
Re: Gold-bearing areas in the Eastern U.S. QWAK,goldminer, :grin: THANKS!! That does help a lot! Unfortunately here in the Ozark mountains (I live on part of the Bostan mountain) things get over grown amasingly fast! I had a 20 acher hay field that I stoped cuting about 12 years ago it is NOW 15 to 20 feet tall with trees so no one would ever think it was being mowed such a short time ago. I supose if it were easy it would have been found agen already! :rolleyes: It has been about 8 years since I even walked back to the far corner of my 40,it is very ruged and steap back there and corner is on a small creek. When back there it is easy to imagin no one was ever back there and geting back is almost all up hill and fairly easy to get lost! Most likely it is not on my property but I do know it IS out there in this general aeria! I am wondering IF with the new sattlelite immaging that is avalable free like from GOOGLE ETC. if there would be some TELL TAILE indications that would be more usefull then just walking around diging holes looking for blue/gray clay muck tailings under the surface? Agen thakn you for answering! :applause_ :clap2: :coolbeer: :proud: the DUCK

FlyingFish | 05-12-2006 11:04 AM
Re: Gold-bearing areas in the Eastern U.S. Hey GoldMiner, Can you give me the word on North Carolina, particularly Macon county and surrounding regions? thanks

Fiat Mutiny | 05-22-2006 09:48 PM
Re: Gold-bearing areas in the Eastern U.S. How about Kentucky? Thanks in advance.

lbzcrw | 06-15-2006 05:37 PM
Re: Gold-bearing areas in the Eastern U.S. Are there any areas in NEW YORK? you can email me at lbzcrw@aol.com thanks

GOLD DUCK | 06-15-2006 06:29 PM
Re: Gold-bearing areas in the Eastern U.S. QWAK,This guy reminds ME of --- ME! :rofl: --------------------------- MONTCLAIR, California -- A homeowner searching for gold admitted he got a bit "carried away" after neighbors complained about an 18-metre- deep hole in his front lawn. Henry Mora, 63, began digging 10 days ago after his gold detector reported a positive hit near his front patio. He told authorities he only intended to go down about a metre. "I figured, well, maybe there's something down there -- you would logically conclude, right? So I started digging," the semi-retired musician said. He started finding gold dust in the dirt and the detector kept hinting that he was getting closer, so he kept digging. "It was still beeping, and that just gave me the idea to keep digging," he said. "I think it's a normal human reaction, especially when you think there might be gold down there." A neighbor who saw the mound of dirt growing on Mora's lawn became concerned and called authorities Tuesday. Fire officials found two men Mora hired were inside the unreinforced hole, using a bucket and rope to remove dirt. "We told him, 'You're done,'" Montclair fire Capt. Rich Baldwin said. "It's amazing no one got killed." Authorities fenced off Mora's property and ordered him to hire an engineer to safely pack the dirt back into the ground. Mora acknowledged his search for buried treasure was getting "totally out of hand." Yet when asked whether he regrets the dig, Mora was conflicted. "In a way yes, and in a way no," Mora said, "because I think there's still gold down there." ----------------------------- I did not find the silver mine but DID get a back up emergency source of water! :) the DUCK

durfcoin | 06-16-2006 06:04 AM
Re: Gold-bearing areas in the Eastern U.S. Quote:
Originally Posted by goldminer (Post 234140) Name a state and I'll provide a list of counties and more specific locations if I know them, where colors have historically been found. If they've been found there in the past, there is still gold there today: guaranteed! You don't need much to get started: a good (not too heavy) long handled shovel, a 3 or 5-gallon plastic pail, and a $10.00 gold pan. You can get pans for as little as $4.00 but I would discourage anybody from doing so. They are too flimsy and don't have a good riffle system of gold traps.
What about NY, NJ and PA area? Thanks and great prospecting!

Waylon | 06-16-2006 08:44 AM
Re: Gold-bearing areas in the Eastern U.S. Quote:
Several glaciers brought millions upon millions of tons of surface materials including gold, down from the north and created what are called "morains" (glacial drifts which are materials that piled up either under the glacial or in front of it, and were left as the temps warmed causing the glacier to receed). The best thing to do is to pull up a geological glacial map to find out where these "drifts" are located.
Makes me want to check the waterways below Sand Cave in the Cumberland Gap Park in East Tennesee. TN Andy, melbo, silverjeep, other East Tennesseans......An excursion perhaps?

GOLD DUCK | 06-16-2006 10:53 AM
Re: Gold-bearing areas in the Eastern U.S. QWAK,Aparently one can find GOLD any ware on Earth IF one digs DEEP ENOUGH!:smile: :albertein http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems...6/s1664312.htm Also aparently there is a LOT of it down there!:hahaha: :rolleyes: the DUCK

Fast1 | 11-30-2006 10:47 PM
Re: Gold-bearing areas in the Eastern U.S. Hi ya, I live near New York State and along the great lakes, any gold bearing panning in this area? Tank you for your time and information Fast1

GOLD DUCK | 12-01-2006 12:12 PM
Re: Gold-bearing areas in the Eastern U.S. QWAK,Elijah,When it comes to REAL hard work and effort I believe THAT is the primary way to seperate the "WANNABEES" in just about every thing people do. When I bought my land and cabin back in 1981 I was expecting to see in the early 80s what we are obviously seeing today in our economy. Intrist rates were 18% and higher so the 10% I payed seemed relitively low. I tried to establish a SURVIVAL team but with in 18 mo. ALL had droped out and I have been doing it alone ever since! People like to imagin and day dream but when it comes down to BLOOD,SWEAT,TEARS and BLISTERS damn fiew today have got what it takes to make a commitment and stick to it! People talk a lot but talk as always is CHEEP, the REAL COST just like REAL MONEY (GOLD) is RARE and that is why it is SO precious! I told people "I will make it work or DIE TRYING!", none actualy believed or thought that like them selves that I was JUST TALKING! It is still hard and in some ways requires living some what primitive but after 25 years we are free and clear and gaining some real percievable momentum. The drop outs have survived and are living conventional lives including BIG DEBT and all the trimings that go with living that way in a DELUSION which I am 100% shure will evaporate over the next fiew years. It pains me to think how much suffering they will be facing but then for the last 25 years I have been doing with out most of the things they concidered esencial and could not do with out and have had, but have done so mostly with CREDIT and DEBT! I am shure they all still concider me a NUT CASE but as the crunch we are facing becomes OBVIOUS and pinching hard, I expect they will remember I gave them a chance and they walked away. It need not have been as hard as it has been IF others had helped share the load,it damn near killed me LITTERLY several times but I have managed to survive ---- just bairly. Not shure just how I will relate to any of them should they show up once they have lost their delusionary life stiles. I saved and bought extra survival gear over the years and always have intended to share but just having the gear will not be enough they need to know how to use it and be tough enough to hang in there long enough. CALOUSES take time and effort and first come BLISTERS and much pain and suffering! In life the things that come EASY are seldom truely apreciated and soon become the accepted norm. The things that take the most effort to gain and achieve become the things that we apreciate most and also of the greatist REAL VALUE when our actual survival is on the line.:proud: :coolbeer: the DUCK

Nuggethunter | 12-01-2006 01:05 PM
Re: Gold-bearing areas in the Eastern U.S. Quote:
Originally Posted by SilverNuts@Bolts (Post 234427) How about Nevada, not the casinos...
Look for a place called Seven Troughs , north of Winnemuca area , SNB. A local guy found an 18 ounce nugget with a metal detector. I think its one of the richer areas for snipers. We had a 10" dredge on the 40 mile in alaska and never did less than 1 1/2 ounces a day. Back in $350 gold days. Really ran the material, all fines. We took a foot of fractured bedrock with it.

Reno Chris | 12-05-2006 04:18 PM
Re: Gold-bearing areas in the Eastern U.S. Actually there is a lot of gold in Nevada, Nevada currently produces more gold than any other state by far. Barrick, Newmont and other big operations produce litterally millions ouf ounces per year. I did up a web pare of places in Nevada and Northern California with maps. Check it out at: http://nevada-outback-gems.com/prosp...ect_possib.htm Hopefully that can give some good ideas. Chris

Large Sarge | 12-05-2006 05:13 PM
Re: Gold-bearing areas in the Eastern U.S. Quote:
Originally Posted by Nuggethunter (Post 431910) We had a 10" dredge on the 40 mile in alaska and never did less than 1 1/2 ounces a day. Back in $350 gold days. Really ran the material, all fines. We took a foot of fractured bedrock with it.
that is a HUGE DREDGE! what is that a 3 man operation?

____hoot____ | 12-12-2006 12:50 AM
Re: Gold-bearing areas in the Eastern U.S. There is gold in the upper mid-west, but in most cases the bed rock containing it is covered in glacial drift so that is damned hard to find. In Michigan the old Ropes Mine in the UP produced 60 million dollars worth of gold in the 1800s when gold was 20$ an ounce[3 million ounces!!!]. Recently the stock of a company exploreing the UP[Aquilla V:AQA] about a hundred miles SW of the Ropes find has climbed after they have started finding lots[billions of dollars worth???] of very rich gold ore[with silver copper and zinc] under only 20 feet of glacial drift.

didgmike | 03-09-2007 01:21 PM
Re: Gold-bearing areas in the Eastern U.S. gonna be moving to virginia in a few months. any info??

Buttercup McToots | 10-05-2007 11:29 AM
Re: Gold-bearing areas in the Eastern U.S. How about CT? Northwestern? I think there is alot of garnets around here...:bull-buddy-icon:

Agent Argent | 10-05-2007 12:14 PM
Re: Gold-bearing areas in the Eastern U.S. West Virginia? Thanks. :)

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