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Tennessee, North Carolina

Coker Creek Gold Area, Monroe County, TN

Mineral locality Source-confirmed findsLegal to collect

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

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Crystals and mineralsCrystals and minerals

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

Why this spot

Rockhounding locality: placer gold in creeks draining the Cherokee National Forest

Historic gold district with USFS-designated recreational panning, documented by TN sources.View source →

Before you go

Hazards noted for this site.

Water, remote terrain

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