The value of gold these days have been steadily appreciating and this has caused amateur gold prospectors to continue joining Gold Mining Adventures California offered by mining resort camps here in California as well as other states in the US. These educational and profitable vacation is now a much sought after past time by individuals and their families not just here in California but in other states too where gold is still abundant and easy to harvest. California has always been considered the gold center of the US primarily because of its history relative to the gold rush of the 1800s. Today, when it comes to gold Outdoor Adventure and fun California, this state would always lead the rest. Amateur gold prospectors here in know that there are still many rivers and streams in the state where one can pan and find a good amount of gold to harvest. Many amateur gold prospectors campingon the Mokelumne River California have been said to be lucky enough to harvest a sizable amount of this valuable metal by merely gold panning.Visiting gold mining camps is a common occurrence in this state especially on weekends and most of them are spread along the various rivers and streams of the statelooking for that elusive gold. The main placer area where gold can be found is located about 30 miles north of Azusa and deep in the Angeles National Forest. The San Gabriel River which is usually the targeted gold site of amateur gold hunters are not actually a very rich placer area but it has been proven to every now and then have consistently yielded small gold nuggets, and flakes of gold to gold panners.

Placer gold has been discovered in San Gabriel Range of California in the early 1840’s and there have been so many productive periods since the time of the gold’s discovery. At the early stage, nuggets and flakes of placer gold have been obtained from both the stream gravels as well as the older terrace bench gravels. According to history, large sizes of gold nuggets more than an ounce in weight have been harvested or produced from these deposits. The bench gravels were mined by hydraulic mining as well as tunneling along the bedrock while a number of streams have also been very productive. It has been recorded that over two million dollars worth of gold have been harvested in this area and during that time, the amount if compared to today’s gold value could run up to hundreds of billions of dollars.

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