Glenwood Springs And Newcastle Areas — Garfield County

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Glenwood Springs And Newcastle Areas — Garfield County

Gold Mining Site CO • Garfield County County
Description
North of Glenwood Springs you can find gold on the dumps of old mines with a metal detector. Along Riffle Creek and Elk Creek you can find placer gold. On the south end of the White River Plateau (hard to get to) you can find several old lode mines that produced lead, silver and zinc with a by product of gold.
Historical Notes
Source: Tom Ashworth's Prospectors Cache (tomashworth.com / Mike Higbee / 49erMike). Author: Tom Ashworth. Original page: garfield_co.shtml. State index: https://web.archive.org/web/20040830075749/http://www.tomashworth.com/goldloc.shtml Area: Glenwood Springs and Newcastle Areas. Map coordinates are an approximate county centroid — not a precise claim site. North of Glenwood Springs you can find gold on the dumps of old mines with a metal detector. Along Riffle Creek and Elk Creek you can find placer gold. On the south end of the White River Plateau (hard to get to) you can find several old lode mines that produced lead, silver and zinc with a by product of gold.
Status / Verification historical_site — Legendary or approximate

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