General Information On Gold In Georgia

Gold Deposits of Georgia was originally published in 1909 as the "Second Report on the Gold Deposits of Georgia" by S.P. Jones of the Geological Survey of Georgia, Bulletin 19. The Georgia Gold Belt was one of the first major Gold discoveries in the United States. While there are thousands of publications on the goldfields of say Alaska or California, there are very few on the Deposits in Georgia. Bulletin 19 now back in print by Miningbooks.com covers this region extensively giving historical information as well as the Geology, Ore Deposits, Locations of the Placers and Lodes, and mines where gold was found. If you're looking for Gold in Georgia then this is a must have publication. 310 Pages.

The definitive story of Georgia's role in the first U.S. gold rush In the 1820s a series of gold strikes from Virginia to Alabama caused such excitement that thousands of miners poured into the region. This southern gold rush, the first in U.S. history, reached Georgia with the discovery of the Dahlonega Gold Belt in 1829. The Georgia gold fields, however, lay in and around Cherokee territory. In 1830 the State of Georgia extended its authority over the area, and two years later the land was raffled off in a lottery. Although they resisted this land grab through the courts, the Cherokees were eventually driven west along the Trail of Tears into what is today northeastern Oklahoma. The gold rush era survived the Cherokees in Georgia by only a few years. The early 1840s saw a dramatic decline in the fortunes of the southern gold region. When word of a new gold strike in California reached the miners, they wasted no time in following the banished Indians westward. In fact, many Georgia twenty-niners became some of the first California forty-niners. Georgia's gold rush is now almost two centuries past, but the gold fever continues. Many residents still pan for gold, and every October during Gold Rush Days hundreds of latter-day prospectors relive the excitement of Georgia's great antebellum gold rush as they throng to the small mountain town of Dahlonega.