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Offline Star1pup

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Gold in Ohio?
« on: December 26, 2006, 12:38:55 PM »
I never hear of anyone prospecting in Ohio and I wonder if there was ever gold here.  I have a couple of small creeks that originate on my property and it would be fun to try panning to see what I find.
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Re: Gold in Ohio?
« Reply #1 on: January 04, 2007, 05:21:56 PM »
Getting old and can't remember.  Is there a Yogi Bear or Jelly Stone campgrounds in Ohio?  I think they have a gold panning section on a stream in their property.  Gold in Ohio is glacier sediment left over from the last ice age.  So it will be dispersed in streams quite a bit and you won't find any deposits.
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Re: Gold in Ohio?
« Reply #2 on: January 05, 2007, 01:46:29 AM »
Wouldn't you know?  The glacier stopped about 5 miles north of me.
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Re: Gold in Ohio?
« Reply #3 on: January 05, 2007, 01:52:13 AM »
Quote from: Star1pup on January 05, 2007, 01:46:29 AM
Wouldn't you know?  The glacier stopped about 5 miles north of me.

Less digging to get to the Gold!
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Re: Gold in Ohio?
« Reply #4 on: February 13, 2009, 06:55:08 AM »
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Gold in Ohio is glacier sediment left over from the last ice age.  So it will be dispersed in streams quite a bit and you won't find any deposits.

I beg to differ...here's a pic from 4 hours with my homemade dredge at an undisclosed location
opened a hole about 4'x4'x18"
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Re: Gold in Ohio?
« Reply #5 on: February 14, 2009, 04:24:43 PM »
yes theres gold in ohio . the ohio prospectors assoc. has a lease on buckskin creek  in ross county that produces alot of flour gold and ocassionaly a few pickers and nuggets .  there is also a known claim down in scioto county , one in clermont county, and the one mentioned by dave in the bush up in north central ohio.  most of ohio gold is flour gold, fine particals about the size of a grain of flour. but none the less , GOLD ! 
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Re: Gold in Ohio?
« Reply #6 on: April 01, 2010, 11:43:26 AM »
Quote from: minker on February 14, 2009, 04:24:43 PM
yes theres gold in ohio . the ohio prospectors assoc. has a lease on buckskin creek  in ross county that produces alot of flour gold and ocassionaly a few pickers and nuggets .  there is also a known claim down in scioto county , one in clermont county, and the one mentioned by dave in the bush up in north central ohio.  most of ohio gold is flour gold, fine particals about the size of a grain of flour. but none the less , GOLD ! 

And don't forget Licking county round the Newark area, not just flint to be found here.
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Re: Gold in Ohio?
« Reply #7 on: April 04, 2010, 01:30:36 PM »
a ten pound chunk of quartz and gold was found on the swank property in richland county in 1999,near hwy97 & gatton rocks rd between bellville & butler.
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