Arkansas Gold Prospecting

[driver]

is dreadful... So beautiful, amazing secluded backwoods streams and creeks, but less gold than seawater... Just finding black sand here is worthy of a celebration...

At least we can still enjoy the outdoors, practice panning and learn to read the terrain for when we go somewhere where there's actually a speck of gold to be found... That is, before it gets a little warmer and you're eaten alive by mosquitoes, cottonmouths, copperheads etc

 

Amazon Forum Fav 👍

Minelab PRO-FIND 35 Waterproof Pinpointer Metal Detector for Experts with Tone ID & Adjustable Sensitivity - Grab it through Amazon!

[civil_war22]

There is a place in Cincinnati, Arkansas where there is a stream where quite a few flakes have been recovered over the years. Lots of black sand. Indians lived on top of the flat above the stream and I'm sure used it quite often. It's fairly large for a creek though if say about 200 ft across or more with lots of bedrock and limestone. Also hurricane creek near bidville Arkansas is said to have gold

 

[driver]

There is a place in Cincinnati, Arkansas where there is a stream where quite a few flakes have been recovered over the years. Lots of black sand. Indians lived on top of the flat above the stream and I'm sure used it quite often. It's fairly large for a creek though if say about 200 ft across or more with lots of bedrock and limestone. Also hurricane creek near bidville Arkansas is said to have gold

Thanks for the tips... I've lived here my whole life but only became interested in prospecting for gold fairly recently... I live near Garland County in the foothills of the Ouachita Mountains and you would think something worth mentioning would be floating around these backwoods streams but it seems to be pretty rare in any form... Through my extensive research i always see the "Spanish Diggings" area near Hot Springs popping up but from what i can tell that truly being able to be tied to any real gold mining or even tied to the Spanish is very shaky at best... Another story of a Rogers man who sometime ago had psychic visions about copious amounts of gold on his property and after launching a huge mining operation promptly went broke.

Also stories of people being swindled into investing in Quachita Mountains deposits that didn't exist...Testing for that area shows less gold than found in seawater...

 

[civil_war22]

It's here there is I believe some gpaa member who have done some work at that place in Cincinnati and found quite a bit. I know for sure hurricane creek has gold

 

[Clay Diggins]

North of Little Rock and just south of Gibson you will find the Kellog mine and the Julius Hess mine. The produced Lead with Copper, Gold and Zinc as secondary metals. Those minerals come out of the Jackfork Sandstone.

Just north of De Queen you will find the Otto mine. It produced Antimony and Lead primarily with 1.2 ounce per ton Silver and trace gold as a bonus. The country rock is Stanley Shale with Jamesonite, Sphalerite and Stibnite as the ores.

I found that information on the Land Matters United States Gold Mines Map.

You can see where the Jackfork Sandstone and the Stanley Shale are along with those important faults on the Land Matters Arkansas Geology Map.

Hope that helps.

Heavy Pans

 

[reptwar1]

Thanks for the tips... I've lived here my whole life but only became interested in prospecting for gold fairly recently... I live near Garland County in the foothills of the Ouachita Mountains and you would think something worth mentioning would be floating around these backwoods streams but it seems to be pretty rare in any form... Through my extensive research i always see the "Spanish Diggings" area near Hot Springs popping up but from what i can tell that truly being able to be tied to any real gold mining or even tied to the Spanish is very shaky at best... Another story of a Rogers man who sometime ago had psychic visions about copious amounts of gold on his property and after launching a huge mining operation promptly went broke.

Also stories of people being swindled into investing in Quachita Mountains deposits that didn't exist...Testing for that area shows less gold than found in seawater...

Old thread, I know, but the Spanish diggins is really just where native Americans mined novaculite for tools and such. There is gold here but extremely fine flour gold