Gold in Quebec is primarily found in the southern part of the province. There is a history of gold found throughout the Beauce and Eastern Townships, which was the location of the first gold rush in Canada in the 1950s. A young girl found a gold nugget the size of a hen’s egg in the […]
There are several Greenstone Belts that have produced most of the gold in Ontario, and the largest of these is the Abitibi. It stretches from Wawa on Lake Superior past Val D’or in Quebec. More than 160,000,000 ounces of gold have been recovered from this one belt since it was discovered in 1909, and this […]
Although most of the gold that can be mined was found in lode mines, many of the rivers and streams of Saskatchewan have the potential to produce placer gold. Head north, because there is very limited gold in the southern part of the province, but plenty to be found in the north. Any gold here […]
There were several notable gold rushes in British Columbia. Gold was discovered in 1858 on the Thompson River at the confluence with the Nicoamen River, which began the Fraser Canyon Gold Rush The Cariboo Gold Rush officially began in 1861, although gold was actually discovered in 1860 at Keithley Creek and at nearby Antler creek, […]
Since the mid-1800s the rivers of north-central Alberta have been searched for placer gold, and most likely, the richest deposits have already been mined. That said, you probably won’t strike your fortune in Alberta, but careful searching can still result in some color in the pan. Eons of erosion has resulted in flour gold, which […]
Wyoming is the most sparsely populated and remote state in the nation, so it stands to reason that it has not been as well explored than other areas. There has been gold found in Wyoming since 1842 by pioneers heading west. Emigrants found gold along the trail at the Sweetwater River, but prospecting proved difficult […]
Wisconsin, as with most of the nearby states, just doesn’t have enough gold to be of any interest to commercial mining interests. That said, the recreational prospector can find smaller placer deposits in streams and rivers throughout the state. Glacial gold has always been ground down into extremely fine dust, generally referred to as flour […]
No fortune to be made in West Virginia. There was some excitement around the early 1900s when quartz veins were discovered, but the excitement quickly fizzled when no gold was found in the quartz. West Virginia is unprofitable for commercial mining. Several of the rivers and creeks have reported fly specks of gold, but even […]
Washington is a terrific place to prospect. Although much less gold has been produced here than in other parts of the West, there has still been several million ounces taken out of the ground in Washington. There are fine placers all through the state, and the recreational prospector can get to work with sluice boxes, […]
Most of the eastern states have only small deposits of glacial gold, but Virginia has hard rock deposits. It was one of the first states to show gold, and most of that gold comes from the “gold-pyrite” belt approximately 9 to 15 miles wide, running 140 miles along the Blue Ridge Mountains’ eastern side. Other […]