Is there accessible Gold in S.W. Ohio?

[CincinnatiKid]

Hello all.
Been doing a bit of research.
In the late 1890s, two gold mines existed in Batavia/Amelia Ohio. Both are now beneath the lake contained within Eastfork State Park.
Both "mines" failed, due to recovery costs relevant to price of gold. Which is surely the case anywhere, even now.
Two streams still lead to area in question. Both are accessible.
Any chance of finding a flake or two?
Thanks
Peace ✌

 

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[Nitric]

It's been awhile since I looked into it.If I remember right, Any commercial attempt in Ohio was a scam to get investors money!

To answer your question...Yes, you can find flake all over Ohio, I have even found it as far north as summit and stark counties, that is just my experience, it may be in every county, You won't find much info on it being there.

You have to understand and study the glacier maps. The glaciers scraped it off of a deposit in Canada and scattered it all over Ohio, basically. Some areas are more concentrated than others because of rivers that ran under glaciers, and through the soil at different times, also where the different glaciers stopped or the edge of their paths. But, yes! I can guarantee there is gold from cinci up. The south east corner of the state is real tough to find. I have found it in ohio river flood areas though. We are talking what is called flower gold! The best case is a piece the size of rice! Which is rare!

Sorry, I'm horrible at remembering terms, If you look at the glacier maps you will see what I mean.

There are also diamonds, garnet,copper,etc....deposited by glaciers.


The place I never was able to get back to, Is if your headed up 71N, there is a huge ravine you cross on a bridge, Can't remember if that is just leaving cinci, or columbus. They worked on the bridge for years.lol I'll bet that would be a great place to check. Not sure!

If you look at aerial views, you can almost see where some of the old river beds ran and follow them for miles. look for one that still has flowing water. Or any flowing water is a good start.

You won't find much on this either, there is a cave or mine that was said to be mined by Indians. I don't remember details, I found it searching newspaper articles from the 1800's. Probably an investment scam also.

 

[russau]

if I remember correctly , years back a person was stating that East of Cincinnati he was getting fine gold from some stream. I don't remember the name of it and I don't know any current Ohio laws pertaining to prospecting there . so check these out before trying to dig somewhere.

 

[Nitric]

Link to some laws..

http://minerals.ohiodnr.gov/citizen-resources/hobby-prospecting-panning

More info...

http://geosurvey.ohiodnr.gov/portals/geosurvey/PDFs/Newsletter/Spring85.pdf

There are a few guys in the forum that have pics and vids of the gold they have recovered from Ohio.

 

[russau]

Thanks for posting this! it was a long time ago that I went there and im getting to old to remember stuff! Id brush up on the laws if im ever to go back!

 

[Nitric]

Thanks for posting this! it was a long time ago that I went there and im getting to old to remember stuff! Id brush up on the laws if im ever to go back!

Ohio is pretty lenient on it. Within reason. I have never heard of anyone getting into trouble over it. There are videos, on youtube of a guy that was right in the middle of a city park around a walking track where I use to live. If your not making a huge mess, most places don't even care. I've never run into anyone else panning either, while I was out exploring. I did have a lot of people see me and think I was insane!Friends and Family included! "there's no gold in Ohio!!! Where do you come up with this crap?" lol That just gave me more drive to prove them wrong!!!

 

[CincinnatiKid]

Thanks All!
I too am called crazy, not just about gold in Ohio.
I'm familiar w glaciers past, dragging gold from Canada as far south as the SW Ohio/Indiana/Kentucky basins, before climate changes and receding. Surely deposits, likely small, remain.
I have pinpointed both 1890s mines that are now beneath aforesaid lake.
Streams leading to lake/underwater mines are accessible.
Might be worth gettin' my feet wet. Not for riches, just a flake and proof.
Thanks again...
Peace ✌

 

[leadpot]

Found some gold a few years back along little miami river near kings mills. Had it tested & it was gold. The tall bridge referenced above is the Jeremiah Morrow Bridge in Warren County close to Ft Ancient.

 

[Nitric]

Found some gold a few years back along little miami river near kings mills. Had it tested & it was gold. The tall bridge referenced above is the Jeremiah Morrow Bridge in Warren County close to Ft Ancient.

Yes, that's it! Lol I couldn't remember if it was after cinci or columbus. Either way! That seems like a never ending drive up through there at times! lol

I think that's Miami river under it? That looks like the perfect type of area to look! Anywhere following that valley.

 

[Nugs Bunny]

1933 Ohio Gold Rush

"With gold now at $33.00 an ounce, this outfit, which can handle 100 tons a day is showing a nice profit."

 

[Nugs Bunny]

Here is an old thread on gold in Ohio http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/ohio/52914-gold-ohio.html

The Ohio State Prospectors Association is an organization dedicated to gold prospecting in Ohio. Ohio State Prospectors Association

My highbanker setup running at GPAA's Swank claim in Ohio. http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/gold-hog/439982-gold-hog-matting-review.html#post4265093

Some Ohio gold porn and a few Ohio prospecting videos. Check out this Ohio Porn!!!!!!

Ohio Glacial Maps https://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=A0LEVy4weIxU93IAjfxXNyoA;_ylc=X1MDMjc2NjY3OQRfcgMyBGZyA3lmcC10LTI1Mi1zBGdwcmlkA1pXaWtTeFdlVFltbGZteGl5TWtMNUEEbl9yc2x0AzAEbl9zdWdnAzQEb3JpZ2luA3NlYXJjaC55YWhvby5jb20EcG9zAzAEcHFzdHIDBHBxc3RybAMEcXN0cmwDMTcEcXVlcnkDb2hpbyBnbGFjaWFsIG1hcHMEdF9zdG1wAzE0MTg0OTI1ODI-?p=ohio+glacial+maps&fr2=sb-top-search&fr=yfp-t-252-s&fp=1

Where to Find Placer Gold in Ohio:

Theoretically any river, stream, or creek in the parts of Ohio that underwent glacial transformation have the potential for producing detrital placer gold.
The best opportunites for recovering placer gold in Ohio are in the following locations:

Carroll County: along Sandy Creek

Clermont County: Stonelick Creek north of Owensville, Brushy Fork (also north of Owensville)

Mahoning County: Middle Fork of Little Beaver Creek east of Salem

Richland County: Deadman's Run north of Belleville

Wildcat Hollow: West of Butler

Ross County: Buckskin Creek south of Humbolt, Paint Creek and its tributaries

 

[MrTim4Gold]

yes sir! Regnad is a good buddy of mine! (on phone now) we head to S ohio alot and do ok..my latest video is up!

 

[Sick4gold]

Yawn...i havent posted in a while but im always around.
I figured this was a good opportunity to chime in.

Yes there is gold in Ohio and reguardless of what any one says theres more than you think. There was actually 3 gold mines all in Clermont county in the past but theres not too much information on them. One was able to cover operating costs and another was rumored to be slightly profitable but hard rock mining in Placer deposit areas is doomed for failure.
Pretty much any creek in Ohio that was glaciated has the potential for gold although most is ground fine by glacial activity. Our gold comes from the Canadian Gold fields along with diamonds and TONS of other minerals mostly ground to powder which is why Ohio is good for farming.
Although most creeks you check will have some color it will be fine or possibly flake unless you really know where and how to look. Ohio is a tricky place to prospect as its been glaciated as many as 6 times and constantly scraped, deposited, moved, flooded, flattened etc. all the jumbling around makes anything possible really. The largest nugget found in Ohio to date was a football sized quartz ball with gold laced in it valued at over 60,000 near Belleview Ohio. Its really a mystery as to whats out there and the only way to know for sure is to get your feet wet.
Good luck out there

 

[Nugs Bunny]

There has never been any hard rock mining for gold in Ohio, hard rock mining is how gold ore and lode gold are recovered but not placer deposits. They used a process known as drift mining. There were more than three gold mines and they were located in Richland and Clermont Counties.

There is plenty of information on several of those mines in this report - http://geosurvey.ohiodnr.gov/portals/geosurvey/PDFs/Newsletter/Spring85.pdf

The quartz nugget is rumored to be a rumor, however there was a one ounce nugget found with a detector, it's shown on Gold Fever Ohio's Glacial Drift episode.

Here are a few more useful links to maps and data:
http://geosurvey.ohiodnr.gov/publications-maps-data/publications-home
http://geosurvey.ohiodnr.gov/publications-maps-data/free-downloads/geofacts-series
http://geosurvey.ohiodnr.gov/publications-maps-data/free-downloads/geofacts-series
http://geosurvey.ohiodnr.gov/portals/geosurvey/PDFs/Misc_State_Maps&Pubs/OH_SurfaceRocks_Sediments.pdf

Ohio's gold comes from a specific region in Canada known as the Abitibi Greenstone Belt or Abitibi Gold Fields. Gold, Mining and Prospecting: The Abitibi Gold Province of Eastern Canada

Search for erratics to locate glacial till, here's what to look for besides quartz:

Greenstone



Copper Ore




Zinc Ore



Granite



Gneiss

 

[Sick4gold]

In Clermont there was 3 mines reguardless of what you read on the internet. I can take you to each, feel free to PM me. I have land access to Kain Run and also Ulrey run and along Elklick run. Im friends with the Weidenbiens who own all of that land
I refered to hard rock mining as a general term as drift mining is similar and is not Placer mining which is whats needed here
Drift mining - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The quartz ball true is a rumor but no one knows either way, however both the GPAA and OSPA both have claims in Belleview and the football was not the only reported occurance of large quartz/gold conglomerates both from Clear Fork Creek.
As far as minerals keep a look out for chunky magnetite/hematite, limestone or dolostone sheets, iron sulfide ( pyrite ) in little cone shapes or chunks, garnets and garnet sand mostly purple, quartz balls and very heavy rounded rock that has turned black from being buried for so long along with round boulders ground flat on 1 side. I have never seen zinc ore here unless ive mistaken it for flakes of Platnium.
Follow your sulfides of iron and youll probably find gold.
If your digging in Till your wasting your time, you need to focus on creeks and rivers as mother nature has classified and worked the till for you over thousands of years, the best creeks are the ones that cut horizontally through major river valleys.

Not sure why everything has to be a pissing match?

 

[MMinOH]

I don't know about you fellas in Cincy but here in north central ohio the bedrock is shale. It fractures and peels away very easily and is a pain in the arse to run thru the bazooka. I did find a creek that had lots of rounded rocks and gravel with a good amount of garnet sands and very little shale. It's been my best producing creek thus far. Is this true for southern ohio also?

 

[KevinInColorado]

Sickforgold, He wasn't starting a pissing match, I think you read him wrong...have your morning coffee first maybe LoL!

PS everything looks like a pissing match to the guy down in the outhouse hole

 

[Nitric]

In Clermont there was 3 mines reguardless of what you read on the internet. I can take you to each, feel free to PM me. I have land access to Kain Run and also Ulrey run and along Elklick run. Im friends with the Weidenbiens who own all of that land
I refered to hard rock mining as a general term as drift mining is similar and is not Placer mining which is whats needed here
Drift mining - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The quartz ball true is a rumor but no one knows either way, however both the GPAA and OSPA both have claims in Belleview and the football was not the only reported occurance of large quartz/gold conglomerates both from Clear Fork Creek.
As far as minerals keep a look out for chunky magnetite/hematite, limestone or dolostone sheets, iron sulfide ( pyrite ) in little cone shapes or chunks, garnets and garnet sand mostly purple, quartz balls and very heavy rounded rock that has turned black from being buried for so long along with round boulders ground flat on 1 side. I have never seen zinc ore here unless ive mistaken it for flakes of Platnium.
Follow your sulfides of iron and youll probably find gold.
If your digging in Till your wasting your time, you need to focus on creeks and rivers as mother nature has classified and worked the till for you over thousands of years, the best creeks are the ones that cut horizontally through major river valleys.
But what do I know about Ohio prospecting? Obviously the internet is far superior to boots on the ground...
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Not sure why everything has to be a pissing match?

Did all of the Gold in your pic. come from Ohio?

 

[Sick4gold]

Yeah and plenty more than that too, i have tons of gopro footage and lots of pics on my old iphone i should probably transfer to the computer but im not tech savy and awefully lazy to that sort of thing.

Yes that holds true to alot of creeks in Ohio not just southern ohio, shale will trap gold but breaks and wears quickly therefore your deposits are frequently changing. It may not be that way for the rest of the country but from my experience shale creeks here dont pay as well as round rock/dolostone/limestone creeks.

I said pissing match before i had my coffee true but why try and discredit me? Sorry i took offense thats the reason i dont post here too much anymore...im sensitive i guess...
On the flip side i invite anyone out with me for a day of Ohio gold getting!
Ill post more pics in a little bit. I have to transfer them to laptop

 

[Nitric]

Yeah and plenty more than that too, i have tons of gopro footage and lots of pics on my old iphone i should probably transfer to the computer but im not tech savy and awefully lazy to that sort of thing.

Yes that holds true to alot of creeks in Ohio not just southern ohio, shale will trap gold but breaks and wears quickly therefore your deposits are frequently changing. It may not be that way for the rest of the country but from my experience shale creeks here dont pay as well as round rock/dolostone/limestone creeks.

I said pissing match before i had my coffee true but why try and discredit me? Sorry i took offense thats the reason i dont post here too much anymore...im sensitive i guess...
On the flip side i invite anyone out with me for a day of Ohio gold getting!
Ill post more pics in a little bit. I have to transfer them to laptop

There are all kinds of places it can be found. I don't disagree with that. As far as any attempts at a productive mining attempt, I might be wrong, I thought they were all very short lived? You can also find it in coal, But that's another topic. lol Any place I found it, it was with real fine garnet(purple, blue, red) and magnetite and hematite(black sand), ground fine. These were in the moraines.Or water that had run through them. Or whatever it's called! lol