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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;huntsman53, post: 382102, member: 1242&quot;]Spider,</p><p><br /></p><p>I am sorry that I did not post a response sooner! I had planned to but the Thread got buried by all of the other Threads and it totally slipped my mind!</p><p><br /></p><p>Unless you and/or your dad is a member of the GPAA or LDMA, you will have to stick mainly to the pay for Gold Mining locations! In some areas of Tennessee, North Carolina and Georgia, you must obtain and permit whe prospecting within the National Forest, so check with the National Forest Office that serves the area in which you plan to prospect. Otherwise, you can prospect (I think the rule is) within 50 yards of the centerline of the roadway where creeks, streams and rivers flow under the road. You must enter the creek, stream or river from public land (i.e. access parking for fishing) on property which is owned by the State or County. It is possible that some land owners will allow you access from their&#039; property but a lot of places are posted.</p><p><br /></p><p>I would recommend pay for Gold Mining places such as the Heather Grove Mine just off of Highway 221 South of Marion, North Carolina and the Thermal City Mine just off of Highway 221 near Rutherfordton. Both of these offer panning, sluicing, dredging in the stream (with your&#039; own equipment or you can rent what you need) and also have an undercover panning area where you can purchase bags of Gold Ore bags of dirt (which usually only have enough Gold in them to keep your interest up). I like the Heather Grove Mine</p><p>as it is very near the Vein Mountain LDMA Mine which I have been to several times with a friend that is a member of the LDMA. There are approximately 6 slate/quartz veins running under these areas which contain unknown amounts of Gold but unless you are willing to dig to China and drown at the same time, you will probably make it down deep enough to reach the veins. Also, the Heather Grove and Vein Mountain Mines are not very far from the Huntsville Mountains where extensive Gold Mining was done in the mid 1800&#039;s to early 1900&#039;s and some really big Gold Nuggets were found (if memory serves me correctly an 8 pounder found in a dry creek bed). If you work these streams, there is some Gold in much of the stream bed down to the first clay layer but you have to go deep for the better concentrations and usually any nuggets. You may encounter three different clay layers usually beginning with a gray or whitish/gray layer, then a whitish/orange/brown layer, then another whitish/gray layer. That is all I can tell you, as I was trying to reach the bedrock or alluvial stream bed (as this is where nuggets have settled) but never got down that far. If you can buy or make a metal probe, then you can dig down 3 or 4 feet from the top of the stream bed then see if you can probe and find the bedrock or alluvial stream bed. Even if you find either of them, you probably won&#039;t be able to reach them as they are deep and the stream run pretty heavy this time of year due to spring/early summer thunderstorms. I have started digging in the stream bed which was two feet below the top of the water level (at slow flow times) and went down so deep</p><p>that I was blowing water out of my mouth in an attempt to go any deeper.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you want to drive about one hundred or more miles East Southeast of Marion, then there are some pay for Gold Mining locations close to Charlotte and New London. The Mountain Creek Gold Mine near New London, North Carolina allows panning, sluicing, high banking and dredging in the stream or you can high bank material that they dig out of the stream with a backhoe. They also have available, dirt that has been run through a trommel to remove the bigger rocks which contains quite a bit of Gold from the Gold Mine and it is not salted. The dirt pile is right across the access road to the creek from the undercover panning area. A married couple was there earlier this year and while the husband highbanked creek material, the wife panned dirt from the (trommel) run dirt and she found a 1/2 ounce Gold Nugget while the husband found maybe a 1/2 gram in Gold Flakes.</p><p><br /></p><p>In Georgia, I do not know of any pay for Gold Mining locations except for the Crisson Mine but I am pretty sure that there are some. I will never go back to the Crisson Mine (which says that the Gold comes from their&#039; mine) as I purchased some Gold Ore bags to pan out at home and all of the Gold that I found, smelled like gun powder. I believe that their&#039; Gold comes from around the world and is mixed in with sand and dirt at the location for sell to customers. I also believe that the Gold Ore dirt offered at their&#039; panning area (there is no stream panning, sluicing or dredging available there) is also salted. There are some really good GPAA and LDMA Mine locations in Northern Georgia if you or your dad is a member.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you need any further information about Gold Prospecting in North Carolina, don&#039;t hesitate to email or PM me!</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Frank[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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