Tri-State (SC/GA/NC) Meteorite and Gold Hunting locations?

My late father always wanted to hunt for gold since before we moved to Mountain Rest, SC in 1973.  My sister and I have always pretty much had the bug, but working in the Electronics Department of the local Wal-Mart with strange schedules and too little money I could never become active in a local club or anything and at this point have no idea what to look for in equipment.  Unfortunately for me, I have recently become hooked on the series "Meteorite Men" and now would like to know if there are any strewn fields in the tri-state area once I find a moderately priced metal detector.

Any advice on what equipment we need to find gold and meteorites or good locations in the Tri-State would be greatly appreciated.  Just write candleman51@live.com and I'll get back to you as quickly as my schedule permits.

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Welcome from New Mexico.

Those states all have gold.

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Thanks much for the general info.  I have almost never posted on any boards (I've been using the Internet since 1988) and this one seems to be one of the most confusing.  Your advice on how to use this site will help greatly.  I hope to start hunting by Spring as winter weather in SC is generally horrible - especially for the last several weeks.  I can hardly wait to finally buy a detector and a pick with a REM on it.  We live a few miles from a proposed gold mining stream, but that project was voted down by the tree huggers.  My sister and a niece's kids have already found a few flecks of gold in a stream on our compound, so I expect to get the gold bug myself pretty soon.

Posted on: January 15, 2011, 02:57:28 PM

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I have many fond memories of visits to your great state (my brother and most of his ten kids used to live in ABQ) and hope to return someday - especially to a mountain (Sierra Blanca) near Ruidoso that was so fogged in we never got to drive it and I never got to climb it.

Several members of my family found some gold near Dahlonega but I didn't get to go on that trip due to my schedule at either the IRS or Georgia Department of Revenue (I can't remember which) but I look forward to doing what my dad only Dreamed of.  Too bad the tree huggers in our state shut down a mining operation before it started!  If nothing else, I'll get a lot of great exercise in fresh air and breathtaking surroundings.  My former Associate Manager at Wally used to go hunting near Cherokee and found quite a bit.  I hope to get with him soon.  For now, the casino seems to get most of our paper (if not "gold" and silver) so it might be fun to actually make money from the area for once.

Posted on: January 15, 2011, 03:06:14 PM

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Thanks much.  I wouldn't mind visiting a few friends of mind about ninety miles from y'all.  Of course the best time to do that would be one week every year when they trek North and camp with 700,000 + friends in the mud near Lake Winnebago and eat high-dollar hamburgers for a week while sleeping under a pair of wings.  I hope to get up that way if I ever retire, and it seems that if nothing else the Midwest is a great area to find Olivite and heavy iron.

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