![]() US gold production greatly increased during the 1980s, due to high gold prices and the use of heap leaching to recover gold from disseminated low-grade deposits in Nevada and other states. 208 in autumn 1942 was a major impact on the production until the end of the war. The closure of gold mines during World War II by the War Production Board Limitation Order No. The large scale production of gold started with the California Gold Rush in 1848. ![]() The discovery on the Reed farm in 1799 which was identified as gold in 1802 and subsequently mined marked the first commercial production. Some minor gold production took place in North Carolina as early as 1793, but created no excitement. The first documented occurrence of gold was in Virginia in 1782. Gold mining in the United States has taken place continually since the discovery of gold at the Reed farm in North Carolina in 1799.
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