There is a distinct band cutting across Virginia that holds most of the states gold deposits. Just east of the Blue Ridge Mountains stretching from southwest to the northeast, across the middle of the state you will find some of the richest gold deposits on the East Coast. Many of the states richest mines are […]
The presence of gold in the Appalachian Mountains was long known to the American Indians in the area. Gold was a traded commodity for the original inhabitants, but it was not valued with nearly the same reverence as it was for the Spanish Conquistadors that eventually landed in the Americas. It was the rich discoveries […]
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 […]