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Sunday, April 10, 2011

Towns in Connecticut where Gold has been Reported

Although today there isn’t much interest in the gold that has been found in Connecticut, but during the 19th century there was more interest in mining in the state.  This listing of gold is from a booklet published by the Connecticut Geological and Natural History Survey in 1951 as Bulletin No. 77 by Julian A. Sohon and edited by Alexander N. Winchell a mineralogy professor at Yale.  For many of us that are interested in geology and minerals this thin booklet has acted as a bible for many years; today it is out of print, but is available in the reference section of many libraries throughout the state.

The Connecticut State Capital's Dome that reportedly is covered by gold that was mined in Connecticut.

This is a list of the towns reporting gold in addition the author has found gold in additional towns in western Connecticut, these towns will be marked with an *.

Barkhamsted*              Bristol              Cheshire           Cobalt              E. Hampton

East Litchfield* Glastonbury*    Harwinton*      Litchfield          Middletown

Munro                          Montville          Mt. Caramel     New Britain*    New Hartford*

New Haven                  Newtown         Portland*         Ridgefield         Sandy Hook

Southbury                     Thomaston*     West Haven     Woodbury

If you see any streets or roads in your travels then have the name “mine” in them you had better find out why. A good example of this is the town of Canton where there was really a silver mine in the 19th century just north of Route 44. There is a full write up about the old silver mine in the history of Canton that is kept at the Canton Historical Society. You can gather a great deal of material about old mines and the mineral resources of Connecticut by reading town histories.

Although gold is a metal that attracts many people it is not the only mineral that is found in Connecticut that exceeds the value. Virtually every river in the state contains a small amount of gold capable of being recovered with a gold pan.

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  1. alvo69May 9, 2011 at 12:53 PM

    Very cool blog, and CT gold data. I grew up in Marlborough and I KNOW there has to be native gold in the area. Portland Quarries was a hang out as a youth, as well as Salmon River State Park. I'll keep an eye on your blog, and pass it along to others. I'm in Chicago, but m heart is in the the Connecticut woods... AlexVoogatyahoodotcom

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  2. UnknownDecember 12, 2018 at 6:03 PM

    Is there gold in Seymour Connecticut steams and creeks

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    1. unknownJanuary 29, 2019 at 2:45 AM

      Go dig and find out

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    2. UZI9MMAUTOJanuary 6, 2025 at 4:05 PM

      Yes but is it going to be more than just like though? You want to look in crevices and you definitely want to get a underwater one that's waterproof detector and I'm not talking just both needed values but the handheld one and you want to read the land get an idea with accumulation is and you're going to find a little bit more than flex there. It's going to be a tedious process but you can actually get lucky it's happened. Especially because a lot of people don't check these places. And the flood of 55 is definitely caused a disbursement and random areas but again old being heavy like it is will be in some very interesting areas that you wouldn't expect to find it. Unless you won near the area before major storms in erosion is occurred in the past 20 years too are the type who's able to read the land as it currently is. But see more absolutely is it worth checking? Yes it absolutely is. Anyway they're saying especially any sort of seeing dark sand or you know where there's quartz so she of course veins and certain type of rocks even crystals by any matter. And definitely if you find fool's Gold. You're in the right general area but that's for more like a deposits which are kind of rare and I'm talking deposits of something about the size of your palm again rare. However with the signs I just told you and you are going to find things that are flaky and bigger especially in crevices in between stones and where the water goes around it's all going to collect honey I just. Keep us posted

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  3. UZI9MMAUTOJanuary 6, 2025 at 4:01 PM

    There is gold in every single City in town in connecticut. However the challenge is are you going to find other than just fleck? Every single River has gold every area of sand has gold and many soft courts like rocks contain gold but again it's a lot of fleck. However I've become aware of a huge 8-ft tall quartz vein were fool's Gold has been found nearby and some black sand over where the water comes out nearby. This is in Harford County I'm not going to say the town but these are all signs pointing to actual gold other than flick. I will tell you this though it is not in Litchfield County obviously but it's by the line that's all I'm going to say. But it's not the side with Hartford is it's in between there. And no it's not where any of the mines are at. I say this for safety purposes cuz I know what some are probably thinking no not there.

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