I am looking for a job to find gold don't have much money looking for work Andrea good people that deal with can you please put me on a good path my number is. ,336_858_9379
My husband works in the gold mind in Kershaw, SC. He works on machinery when it tears up. They have got millions dollars worth out of the huge hole they dug out. They had family day there 3 years ago and we got to see it. The dump truck is so big the tires are about 10’ tall!!
I was in the Asheville library 40 years ago and read a chapter in a book about Cashiers creek Cashiers NC. It said in the 1800's they took out 20,000 ozs by pan. Because of the economy back then, they quit because they could make more money farming. The author said this creek is by no means worked out. Somebody damned the creek 100 or so years ago to create a large lake for a kids camping area but when I hiked it up stream, it goes from very shallow and wide to deep and narrow, As far as I went the stream the comes off of a small mountain 60' and into a 12' diam hole. I often dream about what can be in this hole from centurys of flash floods. I will never get back there so maybe someone here can take advantage of this info.
@@ITCHINGTOSCRATCH864 The only info I have that may be helpfull is I believe Cashiers creek was renamed at some point. Maybe some real old government maps could help you find it. One time I went to google earth and found what looked like the location. If I drove by it today would recognize it right away. I will see if I bookmarked it. Do you live in NC?
@@ITCHINGTOSCRATCH864 one other thing, I have scoured the net looking for "gold Cashiers creek" and there is nothing to be found. That is a real good sign for someone that has the time and money to do research, maybe get landowners permission and put together something legal.
@@1q2w3e922 I live very close, I stay in blue ridge SC and we have cold Creek here that has minute traces of gold and a man that knows the area really well found a nice nugget there but used a metal detector and panned out what he did dig up, but up stream is a historic water wheel and old building that at one time was a trading Post I was told but anyways I was only looking for arrow heads at the time and I've been learning more about panning and I'm really wanting to do research and find a good place to start then see what I may find in my time looking but the mountains here do contain gold's and I would love to have a new hobby that may pay off or even may find something that I could donate to museum of natural history of the area found or state museum alike, but I'll for sure use the information you have given and see what I may come up with, if you have any prospecting tools you no longer use or anytime like I would put it to good use with my wife and I on our spare time, but thanks very much for the time and information you've given
@@1q2w3e922 if you know any land marks old or new that would be close to the place you say you recognize, could you name anything else besides the Creek, like maybe a store or anything you remember from the visitation and I can do some research and find a way to get closer to the area of interest possible even find the actual spot to do some studying in the area
Jess, Keeowee placer, was ripped real clean by Duke Power, is the story we have been told. When opening the streams to fill the resovour, they found a load, hauled away dirt in trucks to Charlotte main office, had processed! Thanks for the great info, my local digs!
Absolutely wonderfully informative video 🙏👏👏👏 thank you. I'm an upstate SC native and now am getting into it and realizing the possibilities. Thank you for the mapping references - I've been thinking about them the whole time but haven't looked into them and have been asking people about general areas
11 8 2021, Well done Jess, you have great wisdom and you are willing to share and help people find wealth. Of course some younger folks would want you to come out and help them get that gold! But you would take all the fun out of them doing it on their own and the fish would be rotten anyway! Best of luck to you!
John C Calhoun mines are in Oconee County. Pre civil war and after mines. Mines are closed but nice gold found in the creek. Toxiway was an indian village
Toxaway is a river that feeds lake Jocassee from Lake Toxaway in NC. Whitewater river also feeds Lake Jocassee. That's why it is named the Whitewater-Toxaway placer.
I enjoyed the video. I live in Johnson city TN, you could see it when you was on the NC map. I’ve recently gotten into looking for gold I keep getting told there is none in my area or around SW Virginia but it’s hard for me to believe that it would stop at state lines
The "Slate Belt" is where the gold is. The gold locations on Jess' map pretty much show you where the Slate Belt runs. It's not the State lines....but as you can see on Jess' map... portions of GA, SC, and NC contain the "belt". I'm on the Eastern side of the Belt in NC. The most productive mines in my area were hard rock mines, but you find flour gold in a LOT of creeks... "pickers" in a few... it's just NOT a LOT of gold... a few specks is common.. West of Charlotte placer gold is more common, they find more flakes and pickers..
My understanding is they pulled more Gold from around Charlotte in the 1820's than in the 1849 California Gold rush. I'm from Columbia and one of my high school teachers panned for gold in a nearby creek. He told us he panned about enough gold to pay for his gas to get home. Other than that, there is not Much to get anyone exited. Most of the gold between Columbia and Charlotte is low grade and requires large operations to extract it. Placer gold is probably easier found in the North West foot hills of South Carolina . My Dad always thought there was gold in the Broad river, North of Columbia. there are lots of small bands of rapids all the way up the river and someone with a small floating dredge might find placer gold at those places.
Broad river may have some gold in it. The second broad river up around Marion NC is loaded with gold and ultimately merges with the Broad river before flowing through SC.
I live in Madison county NC "Marshall NC. It's on the NC and Greeneville TN boarders.. we have a gold mine and a silver mine on our property.. I found Duck Shelton's Silver mine about 4 days ago. It's on hwy 208 I'm not giving a physical address but it's on hwy 208 behind the old chapel.. iv done pulled 17 large buckets of silver ore out of that mine each bucket load weighs between 100 to 110 pounds of silver ore. Mostly silver sulfide ore and a few decent pure silver ore in actual silver metal form. And I've made over 2,000 ozs of silver ingits and bars. And still have alot of ore I haven't processed yet and the mine is still very much covered in it.. it was burried the way I found it was I in the yard and we got a stream that cuts down the mountain in front of the house into the creek/River which is the little luaral I believe is what it's called. But I noticed alot of pyrites and suty silver looking ores white and black pyrite rocks and I knew those where silver I picked em up n had them tested and sure enough it was high purity silver ore.. and it was just pouring into our yard from the mountain which once again is OUR PROPERTY so I started feeling buckets up. These are large carpet glue buckets and then I went up the hill to the old church and behind it the small stream keeps going up the hill n it does go underground for a short distance then reappears going up the mountain.. well I was walking behind the old 1800s church/old school house which is abandoned and we are going to fix up.. but I found a large sunkin are n it was covered with stones which I thought that's odd and I knew of a old hidden Gold mine that was used in the 1880s 1890s up till 1918 then it was closed back up because of duck Shelton when he got caught making silver coins and passing them off.. so my great great great great gpaw closed it n hid the Gold mine.. duck Shelton was my gpaws friend and they made gold bars n coins well rounds and ingits. Both silver n gold.. now the Gold mine remains lost I can't find it at all.. but that silver mine I did find... I've found some Gold here in Madison county it's all on hwy 208 and 211 in Shelton luaral.. the silver n gold is... And alot of it at that.. way more silver then gold though.. iv found a total of 9.7ozs of Gold in quartz and some decent sized nuggets in the large creek behind our house and gold in ore near the silver mine.. and I'm dead serious about this.. on hwy 208 in Madison county NC you can pick up silver ore off the side of the road in some places and I did find a Gold ore next to the house on the side of the road it's not alot of Gold but it's a rock bout 1 inch wide 1 1/2 long and it's got two small Gold nuggets stuck in it. And I found a large a very large Gold Ore in the creek behind the house my metal detector keeps saying it's gold because I get the gold tone and signal when I pass over it.. but it weighs well over 100 pounds and I cannot pull it up over the bank into the yard it's sunk back into the sand which we got alot of black sand as well.. but yeah if anyone wants silver ore and can recover the silver all you gotta do is drive 208 and you'll find it on the side of the road most likely.. just don't show up at our silver mine because it's private property and dangerous.. my family will have anyone there arrested ect.. but you can pick it up in front of the house in the stream n road if you want.. it always comes down the mountain Everytime it rains .. and the gold is in the lural creek / river on 208 and further down 211.. I'll make a video in a few days n show everyone the silver n gold in the area
I would love to come check that area. I like old mines I don't need to find gold or silver, but it would be nice. I'm moving up around Kings Mountain this spring. I've been searching this area for a few years now. I'm gonna look up your area. My brother in law, his family owns a lot of land in Rutherford county thousands of acres. I have permission to pan any where in there land that I want. I'm hoping to make it up there between now and November
Will you please do more info closest to Columbia SC... Today I drove up from Charleston where I live to the saluda River in Columbia and thought I would find something but I didn't. So I really need some help where to go that's not hours away from me. Thank u so much!!
I live in clover sc about 30 miles south of Charlotte nc there is an Alf gold mine a few minutes down the road thinking of looking into getting permission to prospect
I enjoyed the video. I live about 30 miles north of Columbia SC. I ended up getting cancer after I retired that screwed up my back so I can't go far from my house to prospect. But I have a creek that runs through my property. It has a lot of quartz and black sand in it. I set up my sluices at home and about all I can do is take buckets to the creek, fill them up and bring home to run through the sluice. I have no idea if gold is in this creek but because cancer messed up my back, that is about as far as I would risk going. I can't stand nor walk any where without a walker. But I'm hoping to be able to get a few buckets full and take back ti the house. I'm not sure if I can pick the buckets up to bring home. I have a gold detector and tried it once but my back hurt so bad I had to stop. I'm going to try again soon. If I would have to buy paydirt, can anyone tell me the best place to get it. Goldn Paydirt is a major rip off so if anyone can guide me in the right direction I sure would appreciate it.
There are only 3 current permitted MSHA regulated gold mines in the south east. Haile mine in Kershaw s.c. Confederate gold in Spartanburg s.c and the Royal Vindicator gold mine in Tallapoosa GA. I work for the latter. Yes there is still a lot of gold left in this region, but there are a ton of people and development over much of our old gold fields accompanied by the fact that east of the Mississippi most of our lands are privately owned and off limits to mining. Good video, the Nesbit mine is in my home county and it is a smaller producer the Howe mine is Union county top historic producer.
Hi Jess a couple of us are doing ok north of rocky mount he is 71 I am 70 and the area we work with sluice boxes and pans and some times a high banker we will come home with about a half gram. This is for just a few hours work . We are thinking of trying a dredge and see what we get then.
I live in wadesboro NC. I have access to some streams south between wadesboro and SC. But why isn't there any mines in between? The area is on the edge of the slate belt. There are mines north and south. Is the geology wrong or too much overburdened? Lots of milky quarts where I am and exposed bedrock.
The first gold rush in the Carolina’s was bigger than the California gold rush. The California rush did more to displace population and the methods used there were able to extract more gold.
I live in Rutherford county NC, there is a lot of gold around here. I have found some here and there, thermal City gold mine and Lucky strike gold mine is not far from where I live. To cool places to go and learn how to pan for gold, plus. You can do high banking and dredging there as well. I lot of the streams around here have gold in them. Just have to get permission from landowners.
If you gotta canoe and get into the water from a bridge or something you can work it. EPA is in charge of ALL moving bodies of water. All creeks and rivers are controlled by EPA. No citizens can own a moving body of water.
@@2024magaman Yeah and you can pan for gold and maybe use a sluice box as well in the National Forrest but I believe metal detecting is a no no for it use to be allowed but prospector weren't filling in their holes so they got more strict about that and rightfully so because hikers and horseback riders could easily get a stumped toe or a broken leg to the horse and that's a no no !!!
Hi Jess -- I'm native to the upstate SC area -- I'm pretty sure that "Toxaway" is a word that comes from one of the indigenous peoples of the area. Also, Lake Jocassee is a man-made lake that was flooded in 1973 by Duke Energy for making electricity...it's also a decent spot for fishing trout. I suspect that mine that shows up in the middle of the lake was among the bits of civilization that the project flooded...anyway, I enjoyed the video, thank you for sharing! Cheers, David
Thanks for this! Loving your content. Any idea why the blue ridge mountains (western-most portion of the state,) seem to have little to no mining operations on the map? Generally speaking, wouldn't one expect to see more mining operations in "them hills" than in the flat lands? Any recommendations for other resources where one can research historical finds? (namely, alluvial placer operations?) Cheers.
I went panning the first time yesterday. In the Piedmont. I found a few very tiny specs and probably lost plenty being a complete noob at this. I had forgot my sluice too.. lol Had fun.
Hi I live in North Carolina. I think I may have found some gold in quartz but I'm not really sure. Do you know a good metallurgist from the Northwest region of North Carolina? I have some photos I would love for you to see. Is there any way to get in touch with you via email, phone or maybe you could guide me to someone who would be able to help me. Thank you for your time and your awesome videos. I can tell that you are very knowledgeable and have extensive research this topic.
Great videos Jess ,how can I get the correct mapping you use in your videos.I moved from NC.about 5 years ago. I got the gold fever many years back and was doing a lot of sample panning around the Charlotte NC area ,there is some very nice placer gold in many streams in that area. I am retired now living in Kentucky and would like to check out southern Kentucky and Tennessee to do some prospecting,any help would be very appreciative . Thanks and keep up the great videos. They’re very informative. PAK
Interesting! I live in McDowell County North Carolina and we have a gold festival here every year. There’s Vein Mountain (named for the veins of gold in the mountain) and several other gold mining spots in the county. I learned a lot from this. Thanks.
Taxaway is the way to say it I live not far from keowee toxaway and there's been nice nuggets found in Creeks at m miles Creek Park in keowee,I haven't personally looked but I will be since I've got the fever now
Toxaway is an Anglican attempt at a Cherokee phrase - ta ha wey. The phrase means “ land of the red bird.” There is also a great deal of heavy, red clay in the area, with sand somewhat stratified through the clay. We’ve found small amounts of gold dust after just digging a little deeper in the garden and panning with a garden hose.
A lot of keeowee toxiway, jocassie, hartwell, ect (pretty sure ive misspelled all of them) are owned by state campgrounds and such and panning sluice ect is actually illegal at the public campgrounds I was wondering if gold placer has been found in taylors sc greenville sc fountain inn sc union sc? that you may or know of..only placer gold...thanks!
Jess is on target. I'm in Central NC too. If you're seeing Pyrite, there's probably some gold there too. It just isn't likely to be as big as the Pyrite, could be so small you barely see it in the pan. It's easy to miss a spec if you've got Pyrite distracting you. At the Iola Mine site in Montgomery County (a hard rock mine) the gold was right next to the Pyrite in the vein.
Hi Tim I have recently moved to Spartanburg once I get settled in up here we can go check out some spots it’s been mostly river dredging due to the heat but once it cools off again we will be back into the woods
Not yet I have a creek behind my house also hopefully it has some gold in it I did a little panning on the top layer but nothing gotta dig deeper an check above the clay layer to be sure other than that most has been broad river an down to Abbeville McCormick an Troy
@@curtisjackson355 Yea the Troy area is really good. I used to have access to a small creek near Troy that I could dredge. Man it was a good producer! The property changed hands and I can't get on there now.
There were a lot of hard rock mines in NC back in the day. I've given dozens of rocks with visible gold on/in them away as gifts. Pyrite and Mica can fool you though. If it looks like gold no matter which angle the light hits or which angle you're looking from.... it's probably gold. Sometimes the quartz that the gold is in will distort how much gold is there, but if it stays gold as you change your view angle then you have an interesting conversation piece.
I am a average gold seeker in NC. AND SC. not that I'm a pro but maybe someone can help me.I see people that are sluicing and when they run their water through the mats or what ever they are using It seems to me the water pressure is way greater to the kind of gold you find in NC SC..You usually find what I call big specks and little some that float.So didn't that much water pressure just keep pushing your gold off into the creek.I have never found a nugget that would stand the water pressure must Less a nugget.
I never sluice over here. I put the bulk of my time into classifying. The vast vast majority of what I find is little bitty, every now and again one the size of a pencil lead. So the way I see it, why take the risk blowing it out the end of a sluice? I classify through 1/4" and then 1/8, pan what gets caught between then pan the minus 1/8.
Curt It depends on your riffes, angle, water volume and velocity. If you use shallow ribbed matting you might wash gold out with too much velocity, if you combine ribbed matting and expanded metal you'll create enough eddy for the gold to drop and stay put, If all you're finding is flour gold, you would use less angle, volume and velocity, but the sluice saves tons of time. If done right you'll be catching a high percentage of your gold. The eddy you create with your sluice riffles is what lets the gold drop, the more water volume and velocity you have the bigger your riffles need to be. I've gone through tons of material using a recirculating sluice where I ran the slurry through a second sluice to see if I was losing gold... the secondary sluice never had much in the moss/matting.... that tells me I wasn't losing much.
@@ProspectorJess I figured out how to move about 2 feet of a sandbar before it rains.. I dug a wall like cross cutting it, came back today and I can't believe how much it moved.. now I'm actually getting a little more gold and less work.. Lol.. 2 or more feet of it gone..
Look for large rocks in the streams and dig behind them. Also look for gravel beds that have large gravels . Start digging in the large gravels moving towards the sands.
little fact ..the state own all water ways not the property owner just don't get out pf the creek on their land ..the state pwn all standing water even ponds...i am talking about nc .
but what i know cause i live here the Federal Government locked up all the good places to really get gold in South Carolina.the whole line of gold is Federal Land here in south carolina
gold mine here near my house the guy dig a whole so deep you could put your house in the whole is how deep gold is in south carolina.I dredge the creek above the mine so deep i needed air when i went under water not find not one little piece but i made a good swimming whole LMAO my friend got golf fever cause he took hammer crush some ore i said you spent 1000's for 50 cents worth LMAO
What do you think about gold in North East Tennessee....on the Greene county Washington county line...plz find me on Facebook i would love you pick your brain for a min...thank you
LOL... taking Mercury out of the creeks is "destroying" the ecology? Shovel, bucket, sluice and pan prospecting isn't destroying anything. One hard rain and you'd never know anyone had been there.
@@sensiblyhonest695 . Mercury? Lol Have you ever heard of a Hellbender? They're destroying its habitat, and its ability to reproduce, among other river creatures. One good rain? Will wash all that sediment, and fertizers, into the clear mountain streams creating havoc on ecosystems, and starving fish of oxygen. All for a few perty gems? There isn't enough gold to make you rich here. Keep your uneducated arse out of our mountains.
@@unitedwestand5100 You should understand who the "they" you're talking about is. . You sound like a drama queen barking at the picture of a squirrel on TV.
Ever do any prospecting in n.e. Tennessee? I live just a few minutes into Virginia and from my research i haven't found much at all here but Tennessee is a short trip away. Just a general idea of what direction to go would be appreciated
I'd like to get into prospecting or looking for gold. I'm in nc very close to Greensboro. Not a hilly or mountainous area. I would like to know of signs I could look for or certain areas that I can look for to increase my chances
hey brother great vid i live in va hard to find some where to find gold here it mostly privet owned land
Virginia's up for a gold in my state video soon...
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Ran live on FB last night, about to repost here on UA-cam.
i will check it out love your vids@@ProspectorJess
I am looking for a job to find gold don't have much money looking for work Andrea good people that deal with can you please put me on a good path my number is. ,336_858_9379
My husband works in the gold mind in Kershaw, SC. He works on machinery when it tears up. They have got millions dollars worth out of the huge hole they dug out. They had family day there 3 years ago and we got to see it. The dump truck is so big the tires are about 10’ tall!!
Awesome experience!
I was in the Asheville library 40 years ago and read a chapter in a book about Cashiers creek Cashiers NC. It said in the 1800's they took out 20,000 ozs by pan. Because of the economy back then, they quit because they could make more money farming. The author said this creek is by no means worked out. Somebody damned the creek 100 or so years ago to create a large lake for a kids camping area but when I hiked it up stream, it goes from very shallow and wide to deep and narrow, As far as I went the stream the comes off of a small mountain 60' and into a 12' diam hole. I often dream about what can be in this hole from centurys of flash floods. I will never get back there so maybe someone here can take advantage of this info.
Do you have any more info on that area and where to gain public Access to the creek
@@ITCHINGTOSCRATCH864 The only info I have that may be helpfull is I believe Cashiers creek was renamed at some point. Maybe some real old government maps could help you find it. One time I went to google earth and found what looked like the location. If I drove by it today would recognize it right away. I will see if I bookmarked it. Do you live in NC?
@@ITCHINGTOSCRATCH864 one other thing, I have scoured the net looking for "gold Cashiers creek" and there is nothing to be found. That is a real good sign for someone that has the time and money to do research, maybe get landowners permission and put together something legal.
@@1q2w3e922 I live very close, I stay in blue ridge SC and we have cold Creek here that has minute traces of gold and a man that knows the area really well found a nice nugget there but used a metal detector and panned out what he did dig up, but up stream is a historic water wheel and old building that at one time was a trading Post I was told but anyways I was only looking for arrow heads at the time and I've been learning more about panning and I'm really wanting to do research and find a good place to start then see what I may find in my time looking but the mountains here do contain gold's and I would love to have a new hobby that may pay off or even may find something that I could donate to museum of natural history of the area found or state museum alike, but I'll for sure use the information you have given and see what I may come up with, if you have any prospecting tools you no longer use or anytime like I would put it to good use with my wife and I on our spare time, but thanks very much for the time and information you've given
@@1q2w3e922 if you know any land marks old or new that would be close to the place you say you recognize, could you name anything else besides the Creek, like maybe a store or anything you remember from the visitation and I can do some research and find a way to get closer to the area of interest possible even find the actual spot to do some studying in the area
Jess, Keeowee placer, was ripped real clean by Duke Power, is the story we have been told. When opening the streams to fill the resovour, they found a load, hauled away dirt in trucks to Charlotte main office, had processed!
Thanks for the great info, my local digs!
Similar story for lake Oroville here on California. Gold recovered from dam excavation.
Absolutely wonderfully informative video 🙏👏👏👏 thank you. I'm an upstate SC native and now am getting into it and realizing the possibilities. Thank you for the mapping references - I've been thinking about them the whole time but haven't looked into them and have been asking people about general areas
11 8 2021,
Well done Jess, you have great wisdom and you are willing to share and help people find wealth. Of course some younger folks would want you to come out and help them get that gold! But you would take all the fun out of them doing it on their own and the fish would be rotten anyway! Best of luck to you!
John C Calhoun mines are in Oconee County. Pre civil war and after mines. Mines are closed but nice gold found in the creek.
Toxiway was an indian village
Toxaway is a river that feeds lake Jocassee from Lake Toxaway in NC. Whitewater river also feeds Lake Jocassee. That's why it is named the Whitewater-Toxaway placer.
There is a pretty large gold mine operation in Kershaw SC
Yes! My husband works there working on the machines when they break down.
In North Carolina much is on private, however gold is found in Uharrie National Forest and you find it for free
I enjoyed the video. I live in Johnson city TN, you could see it when you was on the NC map. I’ve recently gotten into looking for gold I keep getting told there is none in my area or around SW Virginia but it’s hard for me to believe that it would stop at state lines
I’m from Johnson City as well, running into the same problems!
The "Slate Belt" is where the gold is. The gold locations on Jess' map pretty much show you where the Slate Belt runs. It's not the State lines....but as you can see on Jess' map... portions of GA, SC, and NC contain the "belt". I'm on the Eastern side of the Belt in NC. The most productive mines in my area were hard rock mines, but you find flour gold in a LOT of creeks... "pickers" in a few... it's just NOT a LOT of gold... a few specks is common.. West of Charlotte placer gold is more common, they find more flakes and pickers..
Just an hour drive from you is marion n.c. there is tons of places to go. I live just north of you on the va side.
My understanding is they pulled more Gold from around Charlotte in the 1820's than in the 1849 California Gold rush.
I'm from Columbia and one of my high school teachers panned for gold in a nearby creek. He told us he panned about enough gold to pay for his gas to get home. Other than that, there is not Much to get anyone exited. Most of the gold between Columbia and Charlotte is low grade and requires large operations to extract it. Placer gold is probably easier found in the North West foot hills of South Carolina . My Dad always thought there was gold in the Broad river, North of Columbia. there are lots of small bands of rapids all the way up the river and someone with a small floating dredge might find placer gold at those places.
Thanks for the information.
Broad river may have some gold in it. The second broad river up around Marion NC is loaded with gold and ultimately merges with the Broad river before flowing through SC.
HI Jess……how about central New Jersey ? Your info on SC was very interesting to me and helpful
Glad you covered this. Thanks
State by state...
I live in Madison county NC "Marshall NC. It's on the NC and Greeneville TN boarders.. we have a gold mine and a silver mine on our property.. I found Duck Shelton's Silver mine about 4 days ago. It's on hwy 208 I'm not giving a physical address but it's on hwy 208 behind the old chapel.. iv done pulled 17 large buckets of silver ore out of that mine each bucket load weighs between 100 to 110 pounds of silver ore. Mostly silver sulfide ore and a few decent pure silver ore in actual silver metal form. And I've made over 2,000 ozs of silver ingits and bars. And still have alot of ore I haven't processed yet and the mine is still very much covered in it.. it was burried the way I found it was I in the yard and we got a stream that cuts down the mountain in front of the house into the creek/River which is the little luaral I believe is what it's called. But I noticed alot of pyrites and suty silver looking ores white and black pyrite rocks and I knew those where silver I picked em up n had them tested and sure enough it was high purity silver ore.. and it was just pouring into our yard from the mountain which once again is OUR PROPERTY so I started feeling buckets up. These are large carpet glue buckets and then I went up the hill to the old church and behind it the small stream keeps going up the hill n it does go underground for a short distance then reappears going up the mountain.. well I was walking behind the old 1800s church/old school house which is abandoned and we are going to fix up.. but I found a large sunkin are n it was covered with stones which I thought that's odd and I knew of a old hidden Gold mine that was used in the 1880s 1890s up till 1918 then it was closed back up because of duck Shelton when he got caught making silver coins and passing them off.. so my great great great great gpaw closed it n hid the Gold mine.. duck Shelton was my gpaws friend and they made gold bars n coins well rounds and ingits. Both silver n gold.. now the Gold mine remains lost I can't find it at all.. but that silver mine I did find... I've found some Gold here in Madison county it's all on hwy 208 and 211 in Shelton luaral.. the silver n gold is... And alot of it at that.. way more silver then gold though.. iv found a total of 9.7ozs of Gold in quartz and some decent sized nuggets in the large creek behind our house and gold in ore near the silver mine.. and I'm dead serious about this.. on hwy 208 in Madison county NC you can pick up silver ore off the side of the road in some places and I did find a Gold ore next to the house on the side of the road it's not alot of Gold but it's a rock bout 1 inch wide 1 1/2 long and it's got two small Gold nuggets stuck in it. And I found a large a very large Gold Ore in the creek behind the house my metal detector keeps saying it's gold because I get the gold tone and signal when I pass over it.. but it weighs well over 100 pounds and I cannot pull it up over the bank into the yard it's sunk back into the sand which we got alot of black sand as well.. but yeah if anyone wants silver ore and can recover the silver all you gotta do is drive 208 and you'll find it on the side of the road most likely.. just don't show up at our silver mine because it's private property and dangerous.. my family will have anyone there arrested ect.. but you can pick it up in front of the house in the stream n road if you want.. it always comes down the mountain Everytime it rains .. and the gold is in the lural creek / river on 208 and further down 211.. I'll make a video in a few days n show everyone the silver n gold in the area
I would love to come check that area. I like old mines I don't need to find gold or silver, but it would be nice. I'm moving up around Kings Mountain this spring. I've been searching this area for a few years now. I'm gonna look up your area. My brother in law, his family owns a lot of land in Rutherford county thousands of acres. I have permission to pan any where in there land that I want. I'm hoping to make it up there between now and November
@cowboygamer9952 man I live in Rutherfordton NC and New at this and been trying to figure out someone that knows places or can help me.
Seems like to me if you don't want people snooping around you shouldn't give them a big spill about silver ore and the number of the highway. Lol
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Thanks for the info! I did some prospecting in San Gabriel mountains in CA recently. Video coming soon!
Will you please do more info closest to Columbia SC... Today I drove up from Charleston where I live to the saluda River in Columbia and thought I would find something but I didn't. So I really need some help where to go that's not hours away from me. Thank u so much!!
I live in clover sc about 30 miles south of Charlotte nc there is an Alf gold mine a few minutes down the road thinking of looking into getting permission to prospect
I enjoyed the video. I live about 30 miles north of Columbia SC. I ended up getting cancer after I retired that screwed up my back so I can't go far from my house to prospect. But I have a creek that runs through my property. It has a lot of quartz and black sand in it.
I set up my sluices at home and about all I can do is take buckets to the creek, fill them up and bring home to run through the sluice. I have no idea if gold is in this creek but because cancer messed up my back, that is about as far as I would risk going.
I can't stand nor walk any where without a walker. But I'm hoping to be able to get a few buckets full and take back ti the house. I'm not sure if I can pick the buckets up to bring home.
I have a gold detector and tried it once but my back hurt so bad I had to stop. I'm going to try again soon.
If I would have to buy paydirt, can anyone tell me the best place to get it. Goldn Paydirt is a major rip off so if anyone can guide me in the right direction I sure would appreciate it.
NC here.. thanks for posting this
There are only 3 current permitted MSHA regulated gold mines in the south east. Haile mine in Kershaw s.c. Confederate gold in Spartanburg s.c and the Royal Vindicator gold mine in Tallapoosa GA. I work for the latter. Yes there is still a lot of gold left in this region, but there are a ton of people and development over much of our old gold fields accompanied by the fact that east of the Mississippi most of our lands are privately owned and off limits to mining. Good video, the Nesbit mine is in my home county and it is a smaller producer the Howe mine is Union county top historic producer.
Hi Jess a couple of us are doing ok north of rocky mount he is 71 I am 70 and the area we work with sluice boxes and pans and some times a high banker we will come home with about a half gram. This is for just a few hours work . We are thinking of trying a dredge and see what we get then.
Great Video!! I'd definitely learn more about how you make your maps.
Check out SourdoughMiner.com/ggm/ for details on mapping report
I live in wadesboro NC. I have access to some streams south between wadesboro and SC. But why isn't there any mines in between? The area is on the edge of the slate belt. There are mines north and south. Is the geology wrong or too much overburdened? Lots of milky quarts where I am and exposed bedrock.
The first gold rush in the Carolina’s was bigger than the California gold rush. The California rush did more to displace population and the methods used there were able to extract more gold.
Living west of charlotte I can confirm lots of quartz rocks in my garden. I throw them out every spring and it's like they grow back every year!!
I live in Rutherford county NC, there is a lot of gold around here. I have found some here and there, thermal City gold mine and Lucky strike gold mine is not far from where I live. To cool places to go and learn how to pan for gold, plus. You can do high banking and dredging there as well. I lot of the streams around here have gold in them. Just have to get permission from landowners.
If you gotta canoe and get into the water from a bridge or something you can work it. EPA is in charge of ALL moving bodies of water. All creeks and rivers are controlled by EPA. No citizens can own a moving body of water.
@@2024magaman Yeah and you can pan for gold and maybe use a sluice box as well in the National Forrest but I believe metal detecting is a no no for it use to be allowed but prospector weren't filling in their holes so they got more strict about that and rightfully so because hikers and horseback riders could easily get a stumped toe or a broken leg to the horse and that's a no no !!!
Hi Jess -- I'm native to the upstate SC area -- I'm pretty sure that "Toxaway" is a word that comes from one of the indigenous peoples of the area. Also, Lake Jocassee is a man-made lake that was flooded in 1973 by Duke Energy for making electricity...it's also a decent spot for fishing trout. I suspect that mine that shows up in the middle of the lake was among the bits of civilization that the project flooded...anyway, I enjoyed the video, thank you for sharing! Cheers, David
I would like to find out what towns to go prospect in that's my main big question as long as I could find enough to pan for more thank for shareing
I live in Ashe county NC. I was looking for right medal detector to find fine gold in hard rock any suggestions
Wish I was living in the United States. Prospecting seems like a delightful hobby.
It's global not just US!
Kershaw SC has a very large very active gold mine.
Thanks for this! Loving your content.
Any idea why the blue ridge mountains (western-most portion of the state,) seem to have little to no mining operations on the map? Generally speaking, wouldn't one expect to see more mining operations in "them hills" than in the flat lands? Any recommendations for other resources where one can research historical finds? (namely, alluvial placer operations?) Cheers.
I went panning the first time yesterday. In the Piedmont. I found a few very tiny specs and probably lost plenty being a complete noob at this. I had forgot my sluice too.. lol Had fun.
I would love to come down to the Carolinas and pan for gold its close to my state
I'm in WNC always wanted to find gold and I love looking for ancient artifacts. Any advice is welcome, Franklin NC to Rutherfordton NC.
You're welcome
Hi I live in North Carolina. I think I may have found some gold in quartz but I'm not really sure. Do you know a good metallurgist from the Northwest region of North Carolina? I have some photos I would love for you to see. Is there any way to get in touch with you via email, phone or maybe you could guide me to someone who would be able to help me. Thank you for your time and your awesome videos. I can tell that you are very knowledgeable and have extensive research this topic.
I do not see interstate 26 here on the south carolina map. I live near cross anchor
Great videos Jess ,how can I get the correct mapping you use in your videos.I moved from NC.about 5 years ago. I got the gold fever many years back and was doing a lot of sample panning around the Charlotte NC area ,there is some very nice placer gold in many streams in that area. I am retired now living in Kentucky and would like to check out southern Kentucky and Tennessee to do some prospecting,any help would be very appreciative .
Thanks and keep up the great videos. They’re very informative.
PAK
Interesting! I live in McDowell County North Carolina and we have a gold festival here every year.
There’s Vein Mountain (named for the veins of gold in the mountain) and several other gold mining spots in the county. I learned a lot from this. Thanks.
When i was 7 years old in NC i used to walk thru the woods alot. One creek had really black sand with little gold flecks in it
Most likely mica, but it would be worth testing.
Haha nice profile
WHERE CAN I FUND THIS MAP THE WEB ADDRESS DOESN'T WORK NO LONGER IS THERE A NEW ONE FOR NORTH AND SOUTH CAROLINA
So say I wanted to pan at the river walk by Columbia. Could I find something?
Yep
Taxaway is the way to say it I live not far from keowee toxaway and there's been nice nuggets found in Creeks at m miles Creek Park in keowee,I haven't personally looked but I will be since I've got the fever now
Toxaway is an Anglican attempt at a Cherokee phrase - ta ha wey. The phrase means “ land of the red bird.”
There is also a great deal of heavy, red clay in the area, with sand somewhat stratified through the clay. We’ve found small amounts of gold dust after just digging a little deeper in the garden and panning with a garden hose.
A lot of keeowee toxiway, jocassie, hartwell, ect (pretty sure ive misspelled all of them) are owned by state campgrounds and such and panning sluice ect is actually illegal at the public campgrounds I was wondering if gold placer has been found in taylors sc greenville sc fountain inn sc union sc? that you may or know of..only placer gold...thanks!
I live in Charleston, SC and so desperately want to prospect here but don't even know if there is gold anywhere here.
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Thanks learned a lot
Great info.. ty
Toxaway is a Town name near the lake
Do you own the gold found on your land
We got fool’s gold in the creek behind the house, I live in central North Carolina
Gold hangs around areas with pyrites (fools gold) especially copper iron pyrite (chalcopyrite)
Jess is on target. I'm in Central NC too. If you're seeing Pyrite, there's probably some gold there too. It just isn't likely to be as big as the Pyrite, could be so small you barely see it in the pan. It's easy to miss a spec if you've got Pyrite distracting you. At the Iola Mine site in Montgomery County (a hard rock mine) the gold was right next to the Pyrite in the vein.
What about new river?
Greensboro here.
NC_29 North have you found any around Greensboro
Look for fairforest creek my grand pa said years ago a few old men did good until they got to old to go
does google earth pro look different now in 2024??
I love that nc gold
Where do you get access to govt gold documents
Interwebs. You can find every prospect or mining claim ever filed
I pan/sluice/highbank a lot. I'm in upstate South Carolina. What are the best streams/creeks in Anderson County ?
Hay I'm in Pickens . I would love to learn if you need help?
What software is this mine map on??
I just go down to the beach and pan. I find flour gold there about 80% of the time.
We are on the gold in sc are you close to Anderson maybe we can meet up do some mining and share info
I'm in Clemson and have a few spots that I prospect in the area. Hit me up if you want to get together.
Hi Tim I have recently moved to Spartanburg once I get settled in up here we can go check out some spots it’s been mostly river dredging due to the heat but once it cools off again we will be back into the woods
@@curtisjackson355 have you been able to get to any of the streams near the middle Tyger river? supposed to be good gold in them.
Not yet I have a creek behind my house also hopefully it has some gold in it I did a little panning on the top layer but nothing gotta dig deeper an check above the clay layer to be sure other than that most has been broad river an down to Abbeville McCormick an Troy
@@curtisjackson355 Yea the Troy area is really good. I used to have access to a small creek near Troy that I could dredge. Man it was a good producer! The property changed hands and I can't get on there now.
One of the guys I work with went on a trip up into the Carolinas and brought me back a rock I think has gold in it
There were a lot of hard rock mines in NC back in the day. I've given dozens of rocks with visible gold on/in them away as gifts. Pyrite and Mica can fool you though. If it looks like gold no matter which angle the light hits or which angle you're looking from.... it's probably gold. Sometimes the quartz that the gold is in will distort how much gold is there, but if it stays gold as you change your view angle then you have an interesting conversation piece.
I am looking for work I want to learn how to pan for gold in North Carolina will South Carolina play anyone tell me how to get in touch with someone
I am a average gold seeker in NC. AND SC. not that I'm a pro but maybe someone can help me.I see people that are sluicing and when they run their water through the mats or what ever they are using It seems to me the water pressure is way greater to the kind of gold you find in NC SC..You usually find what I call big specks and little some that float.So didn't that much water pressure just keep pushing your gold off into the creek.I have never found a nugget that would stand the water pressure must Less a nugget.
I never sluice over here. I put the bulk of my time into classifying. The vast vast majority of what I find is little bitty, every now and again one the size of a pencil lead. So the way I see it, why take the risk blowing it out the end of a sluice? I classify through 1/4" and then 1/8, pan what gets caught between then pan the minus 1/8.
Curt It depends on your riffes, angle, water volume and velocity. If you use shallow ribbed matting you might wash gold out with too much velocity, if you combine ribbed matting and expanded metal you'll create enough eddy for the gold to drop and stay put, If all you're finding is flour gold, you would use less angle, volume and velocity, but the sluice saves tons of time. If done right you'll be catching a high percentage of your gold.
The eddy you create with your sluice riffles is what lets the gold drop, the more water volume and velocity you have the bigger your riffles need to be. I've gone through tons of material using a recirculating sluice where I ran the slurry through a second sluice to see if I was losing gold... the secondary sluice never had much in the moss/matting.... that tells me I wasn't losing much.
Cool video.. Thank you
You are welcome!
@@ProspectorJess I figured out how to move about 2 feet of a sandbar before it rains.. I dug a wall like cross cutting it, came back today and I can't believe how much it moved.. now I'm actually getting a little more gold and less work.. Lol.. 2 or more feet of it gone..
I'll take pictures of it next time I do it
Great!
Is the website free to look at
Does Pennsylvania have gold
Small amounts of flour gold
jess,my name is stan, do u know anyone in nc that would teach me what to look for in creeks in nc?
Look for large rocks in the streams and dig behind them. Also look for gravel beds that have large gravels . Start digging in the large gravels moving towards the sands.
little fact ..the state own all water ways not the property owner just don't get out pf the creek on their land ..the state pwn all standing water even ponds...i am talking about nc .
but what i know cause i live here the Federal Government locked up all the good places to really get gold in South Carolina.the whole line of gold is Federal Land here in south carolina
I would love to come down in about 2 months
gold mine here near my house the guy dig a whole so deep you could put your house in the whole is how deep gold is in south carolina.I dredge the creek above the mine so deep i needed air when i went under water not find not one little piece but i made a good swimming whole LMAO my friend got golf fever cause he took hammer crush some ore i said you spent 1000's for 50 cents worth LMAO
I have some questions tbh
I dont see paying someone for a map that i already paid for with tax money
I just told everyone where I prospect :)
What do you think about gold in North East Tennessee....on the Greene county Washington county line...plz find me on Facebook i would love you pick your brain for a min...thank you
Same question. I've done well in southeast Tennessee, but never tried anywhere in NE Tennessee.
Terry search
Thank you for the history lesson, damn greedy northern aggressors
Please stay out of my state of NC.
All you're doing is destroying the environment and the ecology.
LOL... taking Mercury out of the creeks is "destroying" the ecology? Shovel, bucket, sluice and pan prospecting isn't destroying anything. One hard rain and you'd never know anyone had been there.
@@sensiblyhonest695 . Mercury? Lol
Have you ever heard of a Hellbender? They're destroying its habitat, and its ability to reproduce, among other river creatures.
One good rain?
Will wash all that sediment, and fertizers, into the clear mountain streams creating havoc on ecosystems, and starving fish of oxygen.
All for a few perty gems? There isn't enough gold to make you rich here.
Keep your uneducated arse out of our mountains.
@@unitedwestand5100 You should understand who the "they" you're talking about is. . You sound like a drama queen barking at the picture of a squirrel on TV.
Ain't your state bitch
@@tjpelfrey6939 ,. Yes it is, and I'll fight to keep it, like it was gave to me.
Keep your flatlander ass out of my mountains.
what about , the historical, silver valley , area , in north carolina, and the connection with the dahlanega mint.
Tennessee is one of the most underrated prospecting states.
Ever do any prospecting in n.e. Tennessee? I live just a few minutes into Virginia and from my research i haven't found much at all here but Tennessee is a short trip away. Just a general idea of what direction to go would be appreciated
A Facebook friend in Tennessee was looking for where to go in Tennessee..
Do you have a video for that area or something I can pass along?
Johnston county NC holds gold. No one even talks about it
I'd like to get into prospecting or looking for gold. I'm in nc very close to Greensboro. Not a hilly or mountainous area. I would like to know of signs I could look for or certain areas that I can look for to increase my chances
I live in Winston Salem NC. Maybe we could get together and do some research and hunt gold.