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There is gold, however small, in most states, usually in one or two of the large rivers. Gold is often found alongside quartz - as water erodes the quartz, the

• daniel-cussen 17y ago
  You'll get much better pickings in California or Nevada though. Nevada is, in fact, where most of U.S.'s gold comes from, and it's the world's low-cost producer of gold. It's the Saudi Arabia of gold. California works too, especially for small miners, because for larger operations environmental concerns can be a pain. But the Sierra Nevada is very well endowed.
• indigoshift 17y ago
  It's fun. When I was 16, my dad bought a 50% stake in an actual gold mine in northern Idaho. We spent the summer mining for gold--after we spent a few weeks getting the neglected mine up and running again. My dad and brother would go underground and do the actual digging; my mom and I stayed topside, with me running the hoist and the both of us working the sluice box. I found a nugget as big as my thumb that year. We found a number of smaller nuggets as well. Two years before, my dad had a placer claim for a stretch of creek about 10 miles from the mine just described, and we spent all summer out in the woods, dredging and panning for gold. Didn't find anything, though.