Indiana Gold

There is gold all through Indiana in the creeks and even in the ground but you have to get down pretty far to the glacier till...but it can be found.

Gravel pits where ready mix cement trucks come and go...those concrete home basement & garage floors have glacial till in them too! Not the outdoor concrete, they use limestone mix for that...but might fill in underneath with glacial pea gravel.

I have panned at a pit where gravel it took from and keep comming out with somthing that looks like gold but it isnt, its not soft like gold, it shines in the sun like gold, but has sharp edges, its starting to piss me off, ill have a pan of black sand and that crap, then at the very bottom of the pan ill see a FEW specks of flour gold

I have panned at a pit where gravel it took from and keep comming out with somthing that looks like gold but it isnt, its not soft like gold, it shines in the sun like gold, but has sharp edges, its starting to piss me off, ill have a pan of black sand and that crap, then at the very bottom of the pan ill see a FEW specks of flour gold

I think I've seen some of what your,re talking about...but there is also a lot of small mica flakes, rocks containing gold colored mica flakes, making things more complicated. Mica flakes are softer and brittle, disappear in rocks if you turn them a different angle or place out of direct light. Gold will shine while turning it in all directions. We do have some iron pyrite in Indiana plus a whole bunch of hot rocks.

Always keep an eye out for platinum. I have no experience with it...is harder than gold, not sure how much. I mention this because in Canada, an area to our north, some nice platinum nuggets have been found in or around gold placers.

I keep an eye out for anything that catches my eye.....

This is what I use in Indiana for gear.....

You ought to take that to some place like Quartzsite, Az. GPAA has been adding some new claims out there. Here is a photo from their Flatfoot claim near MiddleCamp Mt. During the gold rush era, they just blasted the ridge away for gold. Even back by the entrance, at the highway...I saw a couple guys drywashing, produced plenty of gold in the concentrates when panned out...small by western standards, but easy enough for me to see.

Me, I had a nugget detector, a complete waste of time...surface has been detectod by armies of nugget hunters in the past. Need to dig and move rocks for gold. Next time I'd be sure to take a drywasher, good digging tools. This claim produces some nuggets, about the size of a US quarter in size.

That looks like a sweet spot

If anyone knows of any place they can go with in driving distance to NW Indiana and wants to go but doesnt have the equipment, I have a highbanker/dredge combo I can set up if there is a water source or I have a self contained highbanker if we have to pack in water and a blue bowl for clean up.....we can both work the area and split what we find....I do need proof of ok to prospect from land owner or other wise of the area.....let me know...THANKS