Mint Sets Up Shop in Charlotte, 1837
- On December 4, 1837, a branch of the United States Mint opened in Charlotte.
The North Carolina Department of Natural & Cultural Resources blog. Article on the need for a mint in North Carolina due to the local gold rush.
History of Gold Mining in North Carolina
Gold in History, Geology, and Culture by Call Number: 553.41 GOL N.C.ISBN: 0865262918Publication Date: 2001-01-01Anthology of 22 essays covering various topics on gold and gold mining in the United States. Several essays focus on gold in North Carolina.
Gold Mining in North Carolina by Call Number: 622.3422 KNA NCISBN: 0865262853Publication Date: 1999-01-01Historical background of gold mining in NC from the first discovery into the twentieth century.
Gold Mines in North Carolina by Call Number: 622.342 HAI N.C.ISBN: 0738517364Publication Date: 2004-11-03Photographs of gold mines, which include Reed Gold Mine, a state historic site; the Rudisill Gold Mine in what is now downtown Charlotte; and Gold Hill in Rowan County.- The Carolina gold rush byCall Number: 975.6 ROB N.C.Publication Date: 1971Charlotte, NC : McNally and Loftin
Gold Deposits In the Carolinas
- Preliminary report on gold deposits in N. C. & S. C byCall Number: 553.41 P NCCPublication Date: 1934
- Gold in North Carolina, Information Circular 29 byCall Number: 553.09756 N.C.C.Publication Date: 1995, c1993.Raleigh, NC: Dept. of Environment, Health, and Natural Resources, Division of Land Resources.
(Main copy in North Carolina Collection Room Only; circulating copies available at branches.) - Volcanic-hosted gold and high alumina rocks of the Carolina slate belt: guidebook for field trip held in conjunction with 1985 fall meeting of Society of Economic Geologists and 1985 annual meeting of Geological Society of America, Orlando, FL, Oct. 23-27 byCall Number: 622.1 VOL NCCPublication Date: 1985Chapel Hill, NC : Dept. of Geology, University of North Carolina, distributor, 1985.
- Gold deposits in North Carolina (Originally Published as Bulletin 38) byCall Number: R553 .41 BRY N.C.Publication Date: 1936CATAWBA, MINE p. 127-128 Gaston County. Aka Kings Mountain Mine. Discovered in 1834.
CROWDERS, MOUNTAIN MINE p. 128-129 Gaston County. Aka Caledonia Mine.
DUFFIE, MINE p. 129 Gaston County.
HOPE, MINE p. 130 Near Lincolnton.
LONG, CREEK MINE p. 129-130 Gaston County. Has 3 veins: Asbury, McCarter Hill, and Dixon. Was worked in 1892.
MCLEAN, MINE p. 129 Gaston County. Aka Rumfeldt Mine.
OLIVER, MINE p. 129 Gaston County. Work here may have predated the Revolutionary War.
RHODES, MINE p. 129 Gaston County.
Gold Hill Mines, Rowan County, NC
- Your guide to Gold Hill Mines Historic Park and the Gold Hill Rail Trail byCall Number: 553.41 YOU NCCGold Hill Mine is located in the Gold Hill Mining District, Rowan County, North Carolina. Gold was first discovered in the district in 1842.
- "Poor Men with Rude Machinery": The Formative Years of the Gold Hill Mining District, 1842-1853 byCall Number: 051 NOR N.C.C.Publication Date: January 1984The North Carolina historical review. Vol. 61, No. 1.
pp. 1-35
Reed Gold Mine, Cabarrus County, NC
- Golden promise in the Piedmont: the story of John Reed's mine byCall Number: 622.342 KNA N.C.ISBN: 9780865262843Publication Date: 1999Raleigh : Dept. of Cultural Resources, Div. of Archives and History
The Reed Gold Mine guidebook by Call Number: 622.342 R N.C.C.ISBN: 0865261938Publication Date: 1979Raleigh : Dept. of Cultural Resources, Div. of Archives and History.
Haile Gold Mine, Lancaster County, SC
The History and Rebirth of the Remarkable Haile Gold Mine by Call Number: 622.342 MORISBN: 9781641120067Publication Date: 2018-04-30The Haile Gold Mine in rural South Carolina dates from 1827, a generation before the California Gold Rush, and contains the largest gold deposit in the Eastern United States.