Ohio has many locations that you can pan for placer gold. Gold in Ohio has been left behind by glacial drifts thousands of years ago, and most of what you will find will be fairly small in size, although it is possible to find nice “picker” sized nuggets if you look in the right places. […]
There has never been a noteworthy amount of gold coming out of North Dakota. There was a little excitement when color was first noticed by William Gay in 1887 on the banks of the Grand River, but there just wasn’t enough there for profitable commercial mining. There were also some reports of gold in Bowmont […]
North Carolina has the distinction of having the very first documented discovery of gold in the United States at the Reed Gold Mine. Since the discovery in 1799 gold has been located primarily as lode deposits and byproducts from mining for other minerals. Running in a diagonal line across the state is the Carolina Slate […]
New York is certainly not the place to prospect if you would like to get rich. There is gold in New York, but according to state law, all gold and silver found in the state is the property of the state. Even claim holders and landowners are not entitled to keep any precious metals that […]
Although New Mexico doesn’t come close to the gold production in Arizona, it’s western neighbor, it has produced both placer and lode gold. Production was difficult in the early days of discovery, as the Apache indians were a deterrent to the Mexican Settlers and Spanish explorers who found gold there. Most of the gold produced […]
There hasn’t been enough gold in New Hampshire to make it desirable to mining companies, however there are some areas that the individual prospector can try his hand and recover some pretty decent gold. In the 1860s there was a short gold rush when gold was discovered, but petered out because mining on a large […]
Nevada is a very sparsely populated state; the climate is harsh with extremely hot summers and cold winters. Water is hard to find, the roads are rough, and snakes, cactus, and mountains lions abound. If you’re going to prospect in Nevada be cautious and come very well prepared. Having said that, Nevada is full of […]
You should not expect to find much in the way of nuggets in Nebraska, as basically all of the gold is very fine. In the western part of the state you can find fine placer gold from the rivers that drain the rich ground in Wyoming and Colorado. As the source of the gold is […]
Montana is the 7th largest producer of gold in the country, and most of the gold districts in the state are in the west near the Idaho border. Idaho itself is ranked 9th. The western part of the state is a rugged mountainous area along the Continental Divide, and is much richer than the remaining […]
Not much gold to be found in Missouri, and what there is will be very fine flour gold. There’s never been much in the way of commercial mining – just not enough gold there to be profitable. If you find any color at all, it will likely be in the near the Missouri River in […]