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Garland Silver Mines

Is anybody familiar with the story behind these mines in the Unaka Mountains or has anybody spent any time looking for them. Here is a book

http://www.overmountainpress.com/new...ntheunaka.html

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The Unaka Mountains

The Unaka Range is a mountain range on the border of Tennessee and North Carolina, in the southeastern United States. It is a subrange of the Appalachian Mountains and is part of the Blue Ridge Mountains physiographic province. The Unakas stretch approximately from the Nolichucky River to the south to the Watauga River to the north. The Unakas include the prominent Roan Highlands, where several summits rise above 6,000 feet. The Iron Mountains border the Unakas to the north, and the Bald Mountains border the Unakas opposite the Nolichucky to the south.[1]

The Cherokee National Forest and the Pisgah National Forest protect large sections of the Unaka Mountains. The Appalachian Trail traverses the Unaka crest.

In some geological and in historical sources, the term "Unaka Range" is used to identify the entire crest of the Appalachian Mountains along the Tennessee-North Carolina border, including the Unakas, the Great Smoky Mountains, the Bald Mountains, the Unicoi Mountains, and the mountains in the Big Frog and Little Frog Mountain Wildernesses.

What's your interest? Do you think you can run out there and scrape up a few ounces? Do you want to open a mine? In either case you would do a lot better by checking out found mines, not lost ones. And you won't do very well in any case. Mining and smelting are seriously discouraged, almost illegal.

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I have spent most of my life searching for those mines and my interest here was simply to find someone knowledgeable enough about them to exchange specific ideas. Most of these mountains are wilderness areas and this state is also not open to mining claims on government lands so stating a claim begging some type of mining operation is illegal. I am hopping the price of PMs skyrocket and the TPBP loosen the laws in this area on mining. The recent moves by Bush on lifting mining restrictions is a ray of light. I suspect mining restrictions will continued to be loosened as long as the demand for metals and natural resources continue to increase.