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Ireland, Leinster

Gold Mines River, Croghan Kinshelo, County Wicklow

Gold ground Documented siteGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

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Photos via Wikimedia Commons: BLM Alaska (Public domain).

Why this spot

Lower Palaeozoic schists shedding placer gold

Site of Ireland's 18th-century gold rush; Ireland's best-known gold river.

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