Gold mining in Alabama is probably one of the best kept secrets in the US. Alabama has a lot of gold. So does Georgia, SC, and NC. How the Indians kept it from DeSoto is a mystery. If Desoto would have found gold here we would be speaking Spanish now. I've been gold prospecting in the hills of east Bama for 2 decades now. I usually can get enough gold to pay for my trip up there and back. I always sell it to a local jeweler. He says all the gold I bring him is 21-23 karat. Almost pure. It is back breaking work, but I enjoy sitting in the creek and shaking a pan. I've found 2 diamonds, black tourmaline, topaz, blue kyanite, mica, and have more garnets than any bama boy should. The mineral bearing ground in Alabama is worth checking out. This is a deer hunting site but there are other outdoor obsessions out there. Prospecting is one of mine. Figured I would share just to plant the seed in case yall may be of interest. Oh and one more thing.......Check the links out below, then look on Google Earth at the mine today. Lot of work going on there. There's only one thing they could be after.....

Alabama Gold locations

Gold gold gold gold fever fever fever fever. Back when I had the outdoor channel no other show made me change it faster than that

Yeah that was one annoying show but I used to watch it. That guy's brother was arrested for pulling artifacts out of the bottom of the Alabama river in Selma.

Dang that’s crazy. My great uncle used to dive the old armory right there by the old L&N bridge back down to the Edmund beat us bridge. Uncle soapy said there was catfish down there by the walls that made jaws look small. Of course he told us kids that to make the story better but he was a B17 pilot in WW2 and didn’t much scare him but that river bottom he said was terrifying as dark as it was

I know a guy here in DeFuniak Springs that goes up in that area 3 or 4 times a year to prospect, not a money maker, but he enjoys it.

First thing I thought of when I saw the thread title.

It's been something I've thought about in the past. Surely some of these hill in Jackson County have a little shiny stuff hiding in them.

Nothing in Jackson County.

Bama gold locations

I’ve been wanting to get out there but the claims are crazy here in colorado.

You ain’t lying!

In alabama? Mmm id say your odds are better with seeing bigfoot or a panther. A black panther at that.

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Pretty sure there are/were gold mines all around Lake Martin. What the OP is saying is true.

Ive found a good bit around the coosa and tallapoosa river system. Placer gold

I go to to church close to hog mountain and yes they are mining that place for gold

Never really thought about gold that much until that show Gold Rush came out....I LOVE THAT SHOW.... makes me want to pack up and go to the Yukon one summer... I am fascinated by Gold...

Did some river diving myself when it was legal, Your uncle is correct about the darkness ran into the bottom every time I went. Once your eyes adjusted you could see maybe 12 inches. Never saw those huge catfish but was always told they were there especially around the damns.

Yea there’s a creek near Lake Martin, it make actually dump into Martin, called Goldmine Creek. There’s def gold in them hills, but sparse I’d imagine.

Sounds like a fun hobby