Kansas Gold Mine.

[Lownslow]

A friend who lives in Nebraska told me he knew someone who owns a gold mine in Kansas. Does anyone know of such a place in Northern Kansas?

 

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[DizzyDigger]

Did they say what kind of gold mine it was?

Shaft, adit, placer?

 

[Clay Diggins]

I think they meant to say "cold mine".

There have been several scam gold mines in the smoky hill region over time. The only gold ever found there was from gullible investors.

 

[Electrician819]

If you want to do some amazing research on this I recommend you take a look at wwww.newpapers.com they have archival journals dating from 1600s till now all scanned and you can search for words directly in scanned documents. I used it a lot to get information about my area before doing a detection and it's amazing the information you will find.

 

[Clay Diggins]

You could also employ science. Here's a nice interactive geology map of Kansas.

Kansas High Resolution Geology

Land Matters

www.mylandmatters.org

You can see every known mine and barrow pit by turning on the map layers in the "Mining History" tab on the right. Use the "i" button to get all the known information on the mine. Lots of good stuff on there so spend some time looking around.