Alabama has many former gold mines and current prospecting sites.
Public Gold Mining in Alabama
Mining for Gold in Sand Mountain Fourteen Miles from Scottsboro
During the meeting reports reached Scottsboro that gold had also been discovered on the north side of the Tennessee river opposite the mouth of Santa Creek and the town became greatly excited. Land owners now refuse to entrain propositions of sale.
Gold in Randolph County Alabama
Area streams and branches near Wedowee are most productive. Placer gold is found in the local watercourses, beach sands and gravels.
HONEYCUTT’S MILL PLACER
Gold is to be found in every little branch running into Mulberry Creek.
Rocky Creek Placer Mine
It does not seem to me that Rocky Creek Placer Mine will afford pay gravel in sufficient amonut and of sufficient richness to warrant any extensive investigations.
Stewart Mine
Gold deposits are documented at Stewart Mine. Gold is present at a grade sufficient to have a strong effect on the economics of an excavation project. It may even be viable as the only commodity mined.
Mulberry Creek Tributaries
In Chilton County, gold can be found in Mulberry Creek along with its tributaries, the Coosa River, Blue Creek and Rocky Creek, as well as many drainages that are unnamed that will produce placer gold.
Gold Mining in Alabama
Significant amounts of gold have come from Alabama, making it one of the better gold producing states east of the Mississippi River. Gold has been found in both lode and placer deposits, with the majority coming from area in the east central part of the state up next to the Georgia border.
GOLD PROSPECTING IN ALABAMA
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Arbacoochee Alabama
Arbacoochee in Cleburne County, Alabama was the site where gold was first discovered in Alabamam in 1832. Arbacoochee was located near the present CR-42 between SH 46 & SH 9, nine miles southeast of Heflin, Alabama.This was a gold-mining town that was established in the mid 1830s. By 1845 the population had grown to around 5,000 people, with most of the residents living in either tents or shacks.
Alabama Gold Belt
Most gold found in Alabama comes from what is known as the gold belt, an area of 60 miles wide and 100 miles long in the northeast part of the state.