Pssst! There's gold in Ohio

[fatherjohnson]

Doc a friend of mine harvested about 5 ounces last year in Defiance & Lucas, haven't heard about gold anywhere else. He focuses on river beds and quarries, and only on weekends but his first year was promising.

[jcthomasusa]

I'm fairly new to prospecting. Been reading everything I can find on gold in Ohio and Eastern US. I visited Bearfoot Gold Mining camp this spring and learned how to use a highbanker. Found just one picker after 3 hours of digging in the creek. Wylie runs the place and it's rated high by The Travel Channel.
I'd love to look for gold in Ohio (since that is where I'm from). I spent a couple days digging around on Kelley's Island over the past couple months. Found nothing. Was excited because I read where they were finding gold in the sand long the shore on the mainland. Where would you suggest I look, in Ohio?
I bought 2 lbs of paydirt from a couple in Alaska. Wow! Lots of good sized flakes and a small nugget too big for my bottle.

[jcthomasusa]

I saw something recently about how, as the water level in the Great Lakes goes down, people are finding gold in the sands along the shores of Lake Erie, in Ohio. We know that Lake Erie has lots of gold on the bottom of the lake from the melting of glaciers and we know the glacier went right across Kelley's Island because we've been going there for over 25 years and seen the glacial groves, so I spent a number of days gathering samples from the beach, from the quarry, and from the hiking paths beside the groves. I didn't find as much as a speck. However, there are areas in Ohio where there is tiny placier gold deposits. I just joined a group that does monthly common digs in Ohio. I'll let you know how that goes.
I'm going to Hendersonville, NC in October. Visiting family in a private gated community at the top of a mountain. The road, Edge of the World runs through there and it looks like a good place to look for gold in the streams. I've not found anything online about gold right in that area but I'm going to look, anyway. I'll keep you posted.

[jcthomasusa]

check out their website Buckeye Chapter of the GPAA. The do common digs in NE Ohio once a year for what they call Gold Rush Days. I'm thinking that if Clear Fork River, near Belleville, OH (10 miles north of Mohican State Park) has placer gold then perhaps the river that runs through Mohican may as well.