Gold Panning Maps

I need to know what creeks in Albemarle are a good place to pan fpr gold and what kind of soils is gold found?

I live off Fink Rd on a road called Little Bear Rd. According to a old Gold mine map. There seems to be a few old gold mines in my area. Does that mean people found gold here. I have a creek running through my back yard and it is full of rocks. Quartz and iron ore. How do I find gold in a creek bed other than panning for it? I live in Albemarle NC.

Gold deposits occur mostly in quartz veins that formed in cracks in bedrock. Dissolved gold, quartz, and iron get injected into cracks by super-heated water under high pressure, and the minerals crystallize in the cracks. So, you find gold in places where there is bedrock with quartz veins, and the bedrock is usually granite or some type of metamorphic rock. Gold is seldom found in soil.

Besides panning, gold can be removed with a small suction dredge, and a sluice. A suction dredge is a pump that is capable of passing gravel through it. A sluice is like a washboard that is used to separate gold from sand and gravel.

Removing gold from a stream in any significant quantity is hard to do without destroying the stream or creating turbidity. Most states require permits for working in a stream if you move more than a certain volume of material in a day.

The best place to look for gold in a stream is in cracks where Bedrock is exposed and on the downstream side of the largest rocks in the stream. Gold is extremely heavy, so it settles out in areas where the current is very strong during floods.

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