The glow on this map is our Gold Favorability Model — trained on 300,000+ federal mineral records and the geology, wall-to-wall across the West. Every known occurrence, claim, creek and rock unit underneath it. We don't sell the data. We sell the read.
Explore the map → See a sample report →Gold leaves a trail. The data to read it is public — it's just unreadable.
Lode gold sits in the rock up high. We map the known occurrences and the geology that hosts them, so you can see the sources above you.
Gold weathers out and rides the creeks downhill. Click a source and the drainage below it lights up — the water that carries placer down to where you can pan it.
We overlay active mining claims so you can see what's already taken — and we tell you, plainly, to verify the legal status before you ever dig.
A model of the whole West that says, ground by ground: this looks like where gold was found.
We trained a model on 300,000+ federal mineral records and the geologic map — the rock types, the faults, the intrusive contacts, the terrain. Then we tested it the hard way: hide known gold sites, ask the model to find them again. In validated districts it re-finds 52–74% of known gold sites in its top 10–15% of terrain. That heat now drapes the live map — and members can click ANY ground for a read of that exact spot: the model's take, the creeks that drain it, the rock story, who owns it.
Eleven states wall-to-wall. Cold ground is honestly cold — the empty stretches are real.
Heat over bare-earth relief. This district's model re-found 54–57% of its known sites in the top 10% of terrain.
Central Nevada's model re-found 74% of known sites in its top 10% — the map tells you where it's been proven.
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The public gold record, state by state
Every documented gold occurrence, producer and placer district in the federal record — mapped and readable for free:
California Oregon Washington Idaho Nevada Arizona Utah Colorado Montana Wyoming New Mexico