Here a great document for the Georgia gold prospector.  It is a history of the Federal Road in the state which was the main route the gold prospectors took in and out of the area during the Georgia gold rush of the 1830s. 

There’s some good information for a gold prospector buried in this document, but you are going to have to dig a little more, but hey you’re a gold prospector!   

However, it’s a well written and it might even give prospectors using gold detectors clues about when they might want to adjust their gear to dig for Civil War relics too.

Anyhow, I can’t post a treasure map every single week!

So, check out  georgias-old-federal-road

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I had no idea there had ever been any gold mining to speak of in New Hampshire until I ran across this little gem by the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services. 

It says that New Hampshire gold mines delivered a little over $50,000 dollars worth of gold to the Philadelphia meant between 1864 and 1878.   In 1864, because of the Civil War, gold prices rose briefly to an all time high of $57.052 an ounce, but as Grant moved South prices fell back and throughout most of the period the price was between $27-24.  However, production may have ceased in 1878 because the price fell to the government supported bottom of $20.67, which amounts to an inflation adjusted price of about $440.00.    

Just for comparison according to the inflation calculator I used the claimed that the $57.05 would amount to $776.85 in 2008 dollars (I couldn’t find 2009 numbers) which puts the current price you can get on your gold into real perspective. 

Even when you add the additional gold that was delivered to jewelers and other buyers and figure for inflation it’s not exactly the Klondike, but still production was about 2,500 ounces or so and I don’t think anyone would sneeze at that.

So, if you live in New England and you are interested in a little weekend gold mining this document might help you wash more than dirt if you do your research.

So, check out gold-in-new-hampshire

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Here’s a great document about Washington State gold mining.  It’s a 1955 document prepared by the Washington State Division of Mines and Geology.  This is pretty much the bible for the Washington gold miner, because it gives 162 pages worth of information on the history and location of mines in Washington state.  A gold miner can’t ask for much more than that.

Washington has had some very good gold production over the years and today apparently the small time gold miners are doing pretty good.

So, check out washington-state-gold-mining   If you live out in that part of the country this is really worth taking a look at.

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Ok, so these Montana gold mines are not really lost. After all, the government employee that wrote this document seems to know right where these gold mines are, but do you.

This isn’t a huge document and I’m not quite certain who prepared it, but it is a nice list of old gold mines in Montana.

So, check out lost-mines-in-montana

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