Silver Creek, Bear Creek — Warren County

Source: Tom Ashworth's Prospectors Cache (tomashworth.com / Mike Higbee / 49erMike). Author: Tom Ashworth. Original page: warren_ms.shtml. State index: https://web.archive.org/web/20040830075749/http://www.tomashworth.com/goldloc.shtml Area: Silver Creek, Bear Creek. Map coordinates are an approximate county centroid — not a precise claim site. BY: Steve Boswell Bench gravels contain small (both in size and quantity) amounts of gold. History is hard to come by. The owner of a local gravel pit once said, he had heard of the "old-timers washing for gold" in the creeks. Bear, Clear and Silver Creeks are all east of Vicksburg and have quartz gravel bottoms. In one location, Bear Creek runs over a shale bedrock which is pockmarked with potholes eroded by water moving the quartz gravels. By the way, "Steve says", I've found color in just about every pothole I've dug on Bear Creek. It's never big or plentiful, but it passes the time.