10/4/2023 0 Comments Dredging for gold![]() ![]() Such people can be very successful at gold dredging. Other people are not so physically inclined, but they are willing to work hard and do whatever it takes to succeed. Some people are physically-inclined by nature, and they enjoy hard work. To succeed at gold dredging, you should be willing to take a rather athletic approach toward work, especially during the sampling stages. If you have a distaste for hard, strenuous work, if you don’t enjoy it and are generally looking for ways to avoid it, you need to find some line of work other than gold dredging. There just never seems to be an end to the physical work! This is not bad. Much of your time is spent wrestling with a suction hose, picking up and tossing cobbles as fast as you can, shoving against boulders, fighting to hold your position against the water’s current, packing 60-plus pounds of lead around your waste, swimming back and forth across the river, and pulling dredges around on ropes. Heavy gear has to be carried around from place to place. Gold deposits also occurred in the Blue Ridge area of Burke and Transylvania Counties.Gold dredging consists mostly of physical activity. The majority of the gold deposits and the most productive gold mines in North Carolina were located in the gold-bearing "Carolina Belt." The "Carolina slate belt," located in the central Piedmont, includes Mecklenburg, Cabarrus, Rowan, Davidson, Guilford, Stanly, Montgomery, Randolph, Moore, and Union Counties. North Carolina led the nation in gold production until the California Gold Rush of 1849. ![]() The Barringer Gold Mine signaled the beginning of lode mining in North Carolina, which led to a larger gold rush into the state. Until that time, placer mining of surface areas for gold by panning or use of rockers had been the method for gold extraction in North Carolina. ![]() In 1825, Matthias Tobias Barringer found gold imbedded in a quartz vein on his property in Montgomery County (later Stanly County). ![]() This discovery started the first gold rush in the nation's history. John Reed’s son, Conrad, found a 17-pound gold nugget while fishing in Little Meadow Creek. The first documented discovery of gold in the United States was in 1799 at John Reed's farm in Cabarrus County, NC. ![]()
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