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Welcome to the South Carolina Prospecting page.
Here you will find a treasure trove of information on gold and mineral hunting in South Carolina.
If you plan to pan for gold in South Carolina, you will find an abundance of creeks and branches in which to pan. Panning and gold prospecting locations are numerous and many gold sites are near primary and secondary roads.
If you are a treasure hunter, you will be delighted with the treasure hunting possibilities in South Carolina. South Carolina was one of the original colonies and has many old towns, old plantations, old churches, old rural schools, Revolutionary War, and Civil War sites where treasure may be found with a metal detector.
The gold mining, prospecting and panning areas of South Carolina range generally from McCormick and Columbia north and northeast to the North Carolina state line and westward to the Georgia state line. The gold prospecting areas and mines are in the northwest quadrant of the state and continue over into Georgia and North Carolina.
Gold has been found and documented in these 18 South Carolina counties:
Abbeville, Anderson, Cherokee, Chesterfield, Fairfield, Greenville, Greenwood, Kershaw Lancaster, Laurens, McCormick, Newberry, Oconee, Pickens, Saluda, Spartanburg, Union, York
Gem stones are sought by rockhounds in the same areas where prospecting and panning for gold and treasure hunting for nuggets is done. Gem stones reported from the northwestern part of South Carolina include beryl (aquamarine, emerald, yellow beryl ), corundum (sapphire), diamond, garnet, sillimanite, topaz, tourmaline and zircon.
When prospecting , panning or treasure hunting in South Carolina, don’t overlook the gold near Clemson and near the Chatooga National Wild and Scenic River, which was used as a location for filming of "Deliverance". Try treasure hunting for nuggets with a metal detector. Many gold mines and prospecting and panning sites are near Rock Hill and Gaffney.
Links of interest:
http://forum.goldgrubbin.com/forum/
http://water.usgs.gov/wid/html/sc.html
http://www.dnr.sc.gov/geology/publications.htm
http://www.dnr.sc.gov/admin/geofaqs.html
Courtesy of http://www.goldmaps.com/east/south_carolina_gold_mines.htm
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