While watching TV, I came across a show about gold mining across the United States as a hobby. They showed a list of states, pretty much all 50, that you could look for gold. I became curious as to where in Kentucky gold has been found. After doing some research, I found that according to the Kentucky Geological Survey website on their "Gold and Silver" page only noncommercial amounts of gold have been found near the Ohio River on the Eastern side of Kentucky. They suspect that it was washed down from the Northeast in extremely small amounts. Apparently the type ground surface in the state is sedimentary and has had no events that would cause gold to be formed. If you are willing to search for gold in Kentucky even though the odds are against you, be careful not to find fool's gold and believe it is the real deal. The landscape is capable of making this material.
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