Need Help to Find Locations

[BaseGiants]

Hello All,

I am brand new here so excuse any mistakes I may make. I just got a detector for Christmas and was inquiring to the park authorities around Charlotte, NC. It appears that all county parks prohibit metal detecting.

So, what should I do? I dont know anyone around here since I am a UNCC student. I live in an apartment so I cant even hunt around my complex.

Any advice would be much appreciated!

Thanks,
David

 

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[SkyPirate]

Try a different county, try the beach, look up some CW history of Georgia and head down there. Drive the outskirts of your area and look for old dwellings, ask permission and try there. Go to Uwharrie National Forest they allow gem and gold searching.

"Gold was discovered in Uwharrie in the early 1800s. The placer deposits may not have been as rich as out west, but during the Great Depression a number of camps were re-established by men hoping to scratch a living out of the earth. Today hobbyists are still allowed to pan for gold and rock collect, and no permits are required on Uwharrie National Forest. No mechanical aids ( I think they mean gold extractiong machines) other than hand tools are allowed though and, for obvious reasons, you cannot permanently scar the landscape. (check park regulations for usage of metal detectors)

 

[SkyPirate]

Metal detectors are prohibited in the Uwharrie National Forest.

Try this:

http://www.ehow.com/how_2341443_pan-gold-uhwarrie-national-forest.html

 

[chuckinnc]

UNCC 49rs, remember the statue of the guy panning gold on campus. Check local library's, gold was everywhere and gold rush towns also. I spent lots of time many years ago just above the old Shuffeltown dragstrip, a real hot bed of old gold rush camps & mines. There everywhere around Charlotte, after the first US Mint was in Charlotte, that's because the first gold was found here.