Where did it all come from?

[Color-blind]

I feel I have an understanding as to how the gold that's found in say California came to be (Coastal areas), where did it come from in inland areas such as Idaho, Utah or Arizona?

 

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[YoungBlood]

Volcanos/tectonic plates

 

[Color-blind]

Yep

 

[Marko0916]

Really. I was led to believe all this gold came from a meteor

 

[Peyton Manning]

did an alien tell you that?

 

[Color-blind]

Never mind, I"m good. Thanks anyway

 

[Marko0916]

did an alien tell you that?

Just google

Meteorites Pummeled Earth, Delivering Gold

 

[TheNewCatfish]

Well you certainly kicked a hornets nest. Even scientists argue about this one. Plenty of gold deposits are associated with volcanic activity. You find gold just about everywhere there is a caldera. However gold is also associated with medium age mountain ranges and diagonal uplift, where no caldera exists. Also ancient river beds contain large gold deposits. Some of these ancient river courses which occured thousands of years ago when the glaciers of the last Ice Age melted are believed by some geologist to contain the "richest" gold deposits in America. Far richer than any deposit found in current day rivers and creeks.

 

[Sheldon J]

and there is this... http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/hard-rock-mining/342966-earthe-quakes-make-gold.html kind a of what was said in post no 2...

bottom line is as I have heard "gold is where you would find it"...

 

[Color-blind]

Well you certainly kicked a hornets nest. Even scientists argue about this one. Plenty of gold deposits are associated with volcanic activity. You find gold just about everywhere there is a caldera. However gold is also associated with medium age mountain ranges and diagonal uplift, where no caldera exists. Also ancient river beds contain large gold deposits. Some of these ancient river courses which occured thousands of years ago when the glaciers of the last Ice Age melted are believed by some geologist to contain the "richest" gold deposits in America. Far richer than any deposit found in current day rivers and creeks.

Thank you for this reply! When we're dealing with thousands of years it's hard for me to get it through my thick nogin what went on and how things ended up the way they did, I do know it had to be a pretty violent time in history. I need to do my homework, I guess asking this question was the beginning of my homework so I really appreciate the longer explanation. Thanks again!