DENVER ( KDVR ) — It’s been more than a century since the legendary gold rush of the mid 1800s, and you can still find the precious metal in parts of the U.S. today — not just in California.
A survey conducted by the online metal dealer SD Bullion earlier this year identified the top 10 states where you’re “most likely to find gold in the ground.”
The company gathered data from the U.S. Geological Survey’s Mineral Resources Program to analyze the regions in America where gold ore has been found or is currently produced.
Researchers then compared the total number of gold occurrences, prospects and producers in each state. That number was put up against the size of the state to determine the number of gold locations per 1,000 square miles.
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The old pioneers and prospectors would be proud of themselves as they were pretty spot on with the locations in the West that they suspected produced gold.
The top states with the most gold-producing locations today include: