This is a list of gold mines in the

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, all of which are inactive. Most of the mines were discovered in the late 1820s and 1830s during the

Georgia Gold Rush The Georgia Gold Rush was the second significant gold rush in the United States and the first in Georgia, and overshadowed the previous rush in North Carolina. It started in 1829 in present-day Lumpkin County near the county seat, Dahlonega, and ...

, and make up what is known as the

Georgia Gold Belt The largest quantities of gold found in the eastern United States were found in the Georgia Gold Belt, extending from eastern Alabama to Rabun County, Georgia. The biggest concentration of gold was found in White, Lumpkin, and northern Cherokee ...

References

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Pine Mountain Gold Museum at Stockmar Park
Gold mines by Georgia's County are listed in "Geology of the Greater Atlanta Region," Bulletin 96, Georgia Geological Survey, Atlanta, 1984, Keith I. McConnell and Charlotte E. Abrams. Approximately 135 mines are listed. Gold mines by Georgia's County are also listed in
A Preliminary Report on a Part of the Gold Deposits of Georgia
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Gold Gold is a chemical element with the symbol Au (from la, aurum) and atomic number 79. This makes it one of the higher atomic number elements that occur naturally. It is a bright, slightly orange-yellow, dense, soft, malleable, and ductile met ...