Exploring A Huge Old North Carolina Gold Mine Operation
Exploring A Huge Old North Carolina Gold Mine Operation
Out and about exploring a pre-Civil War era gold mining operation deep in the mountains of North Carolina is on tap for tonight. Please join me, Matt and Thomas as we set out on a reconnaissance of the huge property to determine the best approach to explore and try to learn more about the property in the few days that we have to explore. This is the first of a series of videos where we investigate the property by metal detecting old homesites, prospect for gold, metal detect the mining operations and even attempt to open up some of the old mine shafts.
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Exploring A Huge Old North Carolina Gold Mine Operation
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More gold from NC than ever came out of California..only a century earlier!
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Your in my backyard!! Some of them holes are 300+ deep! I’ve found lots of gold dust here not lucky enough for a nugget but all well I will keep trying!! Love the video!
quartZ is worth something right? why wouldnt they be loading it up if theres that much of it
Hey man thank you for the video I enjoyed it and get down in those caves that’s what I really want to see
I bet there is seng and mushrooms in them there woods
You should go to Hidnitte NC there is an old diamond mine there. Very interesting place.
i really enjoy, thanks
Awesome job. Stay safe everyone. Take care.
Good morning from Southeast South Dakota
You would love the mines where I’m from,only a few are big enough for a vehicle but plenty of other smaller ones to see
Looks like Uwharrie. I see a lot of that up in those mountains.
Nice video! I live in Waxhaw NC close to howie mine. Where is this video taken?
Chigg fall go boom! Lol
Classic NC accent!! Love it!
I got some land in the same areas and there is Gold and I got a war sit but you don’t reply
That dude talks way too fast to be from the South!!!!!
Walcott my home. NC
Very intriguing area for sure Chigg!!! I look forward to watching the videos from this adventure. I thought i had a country(backwoods) accent but this guy most definitely has me beat.
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I live in NC, about 45 minutes east of Raleigh in Johnston County. I’m about 5 minutes from Bentonville Battlefield.
I know why you are there before the leaves come out. The Timber rattlers are huge!
Prime area to use Lidar , use a magnetometer find hot spots.
Can’t wait to start picking morels here in pa nice video guy really knows the history there
I would like to know what mining property this is: I have snooped through a lot of them over time there in NC. By the way, I own 400 acres of valuable gold mining property in the Concord NC area.
No muti IQ PSH….UNREAL
3rd Herd
My guess, you were near the old Argo or Portis mines. Argo would be my first guess. There used to be a RR track that ran from there over to around Cooper Road. Tim has opened up the place around the corner from the Old Portis Mine that’s also opened to prospecting. Both have gold.
I’d so love to be running around those woods! Hearing a guy with a NC accent makes me think of home. I’ve mostly traded mine for a Texan one but I get it back when I hear someone else with it.
👍 Well I’m ready get Dagon so we can find some good stuff today
Lookee!
love prospecting always looking for new area. Great video and nice to see some NC people finding gold and relicts
It was a great trip, Chigg😉
agree with you there, those Morel mushrooms look tempting
Where is that in nc? It looks like the area I grew up in more than it does the mountains.
Bacon quartz very cool
You was down around my old stomping grounds.
where is the graphite ? somewhere around Boone , but I forgot where _ This is an old native made piece of graphite that Ken Tankersley said came from NC but I forgot the place https://prnt.sc/oms3v9 it isn’t an arrowhead but is much rarer especially since it was found associated with white mako shark teeth , Hopewell era
Tried to wat h but audio not so good i hear you fine but the other guy not so much get better mic please
I’m gonna guess that this is in the Uwharrie Mountain region of North Carolina? The Uwharries are an ancient chain of volcanic mountains in central NC that covers approx. 50,000 acres of land in Montgomery, Randolph and Davidson Counties. The images in this video resemble the area as the peaks although steep in some areas barely exceed 1,000′ in elevation. Geologist say that millions of years ago that the Uwharries were many thousands of feet high but erosion and other factors left them as mostly large hills today. They are distinctive though as you see them off in the distance. The Uwharries were home to some of the earliest gold deposits in the US. After gold was discovered in nearby Cabarrus County at the Reed property in 1799, people began looking the surrounding area, mainly the creeks for what is known as "placer mining". As the easy surface gold became harder to find large investors formed mining companies ti dig for gold which was found to be locked in with the white quartz veins that dot the area. The first lode deposit mined in the state was at the Barringer Mine in adjacent Stanly County, NC. Montgomery County where most of the Uwharrie National Forest lies had several famous mines such as the Russel, Coggins, Saunders to name a few. I once stumbled across an old unnamed prospect while hiking there and there was an old German ore bucket still sitting onto a pile of ore beside a vertical shaft. Other minerals are also found in the Uwharries such as beautiful quartz crystals usually clear or milky but on rare occasions, smoky to amethyst tinted, pyrite, anatase, pyrophyllite, hematite, minor silver and copper minerals to name a few. There are several very nice campgrounds that the state manages that charge fees to camp some primitive with nothing but a bare spot maybe a porta-potty, fire pit and table but a couple others with very nice bath houses complete with showers, etc. Anyone who loves the outdoors and rockhounding certainly should visit this area.
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One of your best…thks
Awesome place to check out,love the history of places like that.
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Awesome video ! Really enjoyed it.
I really like your videos! But aren’t you afraid of Bigfoot?
Here in Germany, I am safe! The only paranormal creatures in the forests here are other metal detectorists, but in the U.S. Bigfoot really is something to worry about!!
I have a cave for you to explore in Lebanon PA needs digging
Don’t reappear down that mine shaft Mr chiggs 😜👍
that turned into a mushroom hunting vid real quick… 😀
I call NC home!!!