The Carolina Slate Belt is a gold rich strip that runs from Virginia, south through both North and South Carolina and ends up in Georgia. Numerous rivers and streams throughout this areas contain placer gold deposits. Although most people knew of the gold in the US as a result of the California Gold rush, the […]
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Gold in North Carolina
North Carolina State held the distinction as having the first documented gold discovery in the United States. It dated back to 1799 when a young boy named Conrad Reed found a 17-pound gold nugget along the banks of Little Meadow Creek. Although it went unidentified for several years, eventually it was determined to be gold, […]