El Corpus gold district

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Gold

Crystals and minerals

Also reported: limonite.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: BLM Alaska (Public domain), Stephanie Clifford from Arlington, VA, USA (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

Vein gold under a hilltop colonial town, worked since the 1580s and still dug artisanally

Before you go

Hazards noted for this site.