California Gold Districts

[DirtyDog]

The real reason I started WTW is to develop a captive audience that I could force-feed mining history to. MUHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

Anywho..... Just finished a huge update I've put hundreds of hours into over the last 9 months. I digitized the entire "Gold Districts of California" by the California Division of Mines and Geology and created image maps of the entire map linking districts to district descriptions There are around 350 districts described:

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Map of California Gold Districts

I'd like to thank beer for making this moment possible.

 

[K6ON]

Wow, Great job Aaron. I looked at a few pages already and find the info very interesting. Don't think you'll turn the forum into a mining group, but I for one will enjoy looking at and reading the rest of your work.

Thanks for your efforts...

 

[chnlisle]

Great stuff El Grande Perro. I just bought a helmet and a canary.
A former employee has gone to Placerville for the lsast 15 years and has brought out some very big (baseball sized) nuggets.

 

[craig333]

Very nice work. Interesting to see what underlays certain areas I"m familiar with. I was surprised to see Diamond mountain on there as in my travels around there I never saw any traces of mining.

Hayden Hill (which also has a lookout on it) at the time I worked in Bieber for CDF, (early 80's) was seeing a resurgence of mining activity.

 

[Ted]

Jay, shouldn't that be El Puerco Perro?

Aaron, living near the gold country leads to interesting stories. I once camped at a co-workers property near Lake Oroville. There was an old air shaft covered with logs on the property. I had climbing equipment so we rappelled down the shaft. Much of the walls going down, about 50 feet, was quartz crystals. Once in the main shaft, we chickened out and never explored it.

I have heard of people that own property along the American River near Coloma being paid tens of thousands of dollars just to give people mining rights on the river within their property boundaries.

There are many mountain biking trails along the rivers. It is quite common to see dredges operating and people that are camping out, working their claim, waiting for that big strike.

Maybe you should come down here for a while. You could do a lot more beer inspired research!?

 

[DirtyDog]

DD,nice work.A question,have you ever stopped at the visitor center at Kelso visitor center (Mojave persevere )

The Mojave is a long way from home so I haven't been there yet, but I hope to go in the next year or so.