Articles by East Coast Prospecting

Ohio has many locations that you can pan for placer gold. Gold in Ohio has been left behind by glacial drifts thousands of years ago, and most of what you will find will be fairly […]

Gold in West Virginia is quite limited. Around the turn of the last century, there was some very short lived excitement relating to the discovery of quartz veins containing gold, but further investigation revealed little […]

 Wild Wonderful West Virginia Although West Virginia’s rugged mountains may seem like an ideal place to prospect for gold, you won’t get rich quick doing so. The state has no commercial gold mines, and prospectors […]