Popular Post RedDirtDigger Posted April 16, 2017 Popular Post Share Posted April 16, 2017 Educate me please members. In Australia one of my goals is to detect a nuggie in every State. There are seven states in Australia. I have three States to go. How many States in the US is it possible to find nuggets in???. Have many of you managed to find nuggets from more then a few states over there? My first trip to the state of Queensland yielded gold....and my first taste of beautiful paper thin leaf gold. Some of the thin sheets have crystal faces that look like "sergeant stripes " on the gold. (the flat nugget at top right only weighs 3 grams....yeah they are thin....but give good signals. Cheers RDD 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Herschbach Posted April 16, 2017 Share Posted April 16, 2017 Principal Gold-Producing Districts of the United States The text above has the details but here are a couple charts from the report to get you started. I have found gold in Alaska, Arizona, California, and Nevada but that's not unusual. In addition to the states listed detectable gold could be found in Georgia plus possibly in any northern state where glacial age deposits are found. Also, the ranking is only through 1965 and includes hard rock mining so is not directly indicative of the chances of finding nugget gold. Again, refer to the text for details. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reno Chris Posted April 16, 2017 Share Posted April 16, 2017 Although the US has a few large states, as a whole, most of the states of the US are much smaller than the states of Australia. The US states include a number with very unfavorable geology - just as parts of Australia are unfavorable for gold. If one updated the chart that Steve posted to include the last 50 years, Nevada would be the leading producer - the Carlin district alone has produced roughly 100 million ounces - an amount about equal to the entire state of California up to 1965. Unfortunately, the great majority of Nevada production is microscopic in size. It processes great with cyanide, but you can't even pan out visible dust that can be seen with the eye, let alone nuggets large enough to detect. Some places in Nevada do produce coarse gold and nuggets, its just the majority is this microscopic stuff - and that is why the old timers missed it for the most part. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hobo Posted April 19, 2017 Share Posted April 19, 2017 I have found natural gold in Ca, Az, NM, Co, Mt, Id and Or. None in SD, Wa or Wy yet. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walker Posted April 19, 2017 Share Posted April 19, 2017 I am from Colorado originally. There's nuggets here but they are rare. I think there's a lot more here but the country is remote. The season is short, so it stays hidden. I am sure this is the scenario in many places around the world. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bear Posted April 19, 2017 Share Posted April 19, 2017 I have found gold in Alaska, Wyoming, Georgia, South Dakota, Montana, Colorado, Nevada, Utah, and New Mexico. With a detector I found nuggets in only Alaska, Wyoming and most recently New Mexico. I did find nuggets in Montana and Georgia that are big enough to detect but I found them either dredging or highbanking. I tried extremely hard to detect a nugget when I lived in Georgia but they eluded me. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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