Gillespie County Gold Locations

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Gillespie County Gold Locations

Gold Mining Site TX • Gillespie County County
Description
UT Austin panned gold out of the Sandy below the Enchanted Rock state park, this info found in a book "The Lost San Saba Mine" by C.F. Eckardt. They panned out a couple of hundred (1974ish) dollars of gold. Also was a small mining operation in the northeastern part of the county, about 20 miles from Fredericksburg. This info from UT Bureau of Economic Geology.
Historical Notes
Source: Tom Ashworth's Prospectors Cache (tomashworth.com / Mike Higbee / 49erMike). Author: John Moore. Original page: gillespie_tx.shtml. State index: https://web.archive.org/web/20040830075749/http://www.tomashworth.com/goldloc.shtml Map coordinates are an approximate county centroid — not a precise claim site. UT Austin panned gold out of the Sandy below the Enchanted Rock state park, this info found in a book "The Lost San Saba Mine" by C.F. Eckardt. They panned out a couple of hundred (1974ish) dollars of gold. Also was a small mining operation in the northeastern part of the county, about 20 miles from Fredericksburg. This info from UT Bureau of Economic Geology.
Status / Verification historical_site — Legendary or approximate

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