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A Gold Bullion Mining Trip To California Can Be Very Exciting

If you are thinking about going on a gold bullion mining trip, think about the Gold County in California as your destination. There is more than 100 square miles of land near the Sierra Nevada mountain range. Taking a gold mining trip in California is easy with over 50 camps and 11 counties housing them.

You should try and take a gold mining trip to towns that started off as mining camps but which grew prosperous because of the money coming in from gold mining and which became big and this prosperity ensured that they were able to survive even up to the modern times. Equally exiting is visiting the ghost towns which are now deserted after no gold was found.

If you take the Mother Lode Highway, more conventionally known as the CA-49, you will get to visit the gold mines at Auburn and Mariposa.

You should visit the towns and regions which were especially lucky in finding loads of gold during the Rush as this will help you to understand the scale of the gold community. The lucky prospectors of the day could even scoop up gold in huge amounts straight out from the banks of the wonderful American River.

You cannot undertake a gold mining trip without visiting regions including Auburn, Mariposa, Angels Camp, Sutter Creek and Placerville, these are the best places. Gold is the yellow coloured mineral that has attracted people from the very earliest times. Its symbol is Au and it has an atomic number of seventy-nine. It is a precious metal used in sculpture, jewellery and as an ornamental piece. From the time of its very earliest discovery till the present this is one precious metal for which people continue to desire and many will do anything to get their hands on it.

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