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  2. List of gold mines in Georgia - Wikipedia

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    Gold mines by Georgia's County are listed in "Geology of the Greater Atlanta Region," Bulletin 96, Georgia Geological Survey, Atlanta, 1984, Keith I. McConnell and Charlotte E. Abrams. Approximately 135 mines are listed. Gold mines by Georgia's County are also listed in "A Preliminary Report on a Part of the Gold Deposits of Georgia,"1896

  3. Georgia Gold Belt - Wikipedia

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    The biggest concentration of gold was found in White, Lumpkin, and northern Cherokee counties in Georgia. The gold in the Georgia Gold Belt was close to 24 karat (100%) purity. Most of the gold was found in eroded rock and mixed in with quartz. Besides placer deposits of gold, and gold bearing quartz in weathered rock, gold also occurs in ...

  4. List of gold mines in the United States - Wikipedia

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    This list of gold mines in the United States is subsidiary to the list of mines article and lists working, defunct and future mines in the country and is organised by the primary mineral output. For practical purposes stone, marble and other quarries may be included in this list.

  5. Sixes mine - Wikipedia

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    The Sixes Mine is a group of former gold placer mines in the Georgia Gold Belt. They are near Sixes in Cherokee County, Georgia , United States, located off Bell's Ferry Road, south of Canton, Georgia .

  6. Gold mining in the United States - Wikipedia

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    US annual gold production (1840–2012) In the United States, gold mining has taken place continually since the discovery of gold at the Reed farm in North Carolina in 1799. The first documented occurrence of gold was in Virginia in 1782. [1] Some minor gold production took place in North Carolina as early as 1793, but created no excitement.

  7. Mining in Georgia (country) - Wikipedia

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    Metal mining in Georgia started with copper in the 6th-5th millennia B.C. [1] Gold mining has also been conducted in Georgia since ancient times. [2] One interpretation of the legend of the Golden Fleece supposedly held in ancient Georgia relates it to the local method of placer mining with sheep fleece to find gold.

  8. Calhoun Mine - Wikipedia

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    Calhoun started a mining company to mine the land and later allowed his son-in-law Thomas Green Clemson, the founder of Clemson University, to manage it. The ore deposit was a very rich deposit and, according to an 1856 letter from Clemson to his brother-in-law, was still producing significant quantities of gold nearly 30 years after its ...

  9. Gold panning - Wikipedia

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    "Panning out" ~ Stereoscopic view of print taken by the U.S. Geological and Geographic Survey of the Territories ~ circa 1874–1879 Gold panning is a simple process. Once a suitable placer deposit is located, some alluvial deposits are scooped into a pan, where they are then wetted and loosed from attached soils by soaking, fingering, and aggressive agitation in water.