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Historic gold producers in Rabun County (USGS)

USGS records 21 historic gold producers in Rabun County: 21 past producers and 0 listed as producers or plants. For 11 of them USGS gives an output size (11 small). The most common deposit type is placer Au-PGE (7 sites).

Show the 21 sites

Site	USGS status	Output	Commodities	Years
Bowers Placer	Past producer	small	Gold	n/a
Bright Evans Property	Past producer	small	Gold	n/a
Dillard/Ledford Placers	Past producer	small	Gold, Silver	n/a
Hamby Mine	Past producer	small	Gold	n/a
Hedden Placer Mine	Past producer	small	Gold	n/a
J.G. Welborn	Past producer	small	Gold	n/a
Moore Girl Mine	Past producer	small	Gold	n/a
Page Property	Past producer	small	Gold	n/a
Powell Mine	Past producer	small	Gold	n/a
Reaves Mine	Past producer	small	Gold, Silver	n/a
Screamer Mt.	Past producer	small	Gold	n/a
Ammons Branch Mine	Past producer	n/a	Gold	n/a
Barclay Gold Mine	Past producer	n/a	Gold	n/a
Hamby Mine	Past producer	n/a	Gold	n/a
Hedden Placer Mine	Past producer	n/a	Gold	n/a
Lamar Mine	Past producer	n/a	Gold	n/a
Law Ground Branch Mine	Past producer	n/a	Gold	n/a
Moore Girl's Mine	Past producer	n/a	Gold	n/a
Page Branch Mine	Past producer	n/a	Gold	n/a
The Parks Gold Mine	Past producer	n/a	Gold	n/a
Tom Coward Gap Prospect	Past producer	n/a	Iron-Pyrite, Gold, Copper	n/a

Source: USGS Mineral Resources Data System (retrieved 2026-10-13). The database was last updated around 2011, positions can be approximate and "producer" does not mean a mine is operating today. Sites already matched to an MSHA record are shown in the MSHA tables.

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