Product Description:
(SOLD OUT) A very complete book of gold placer mines, hydraulic and drift mines, locations, dredging areas. Well documented by numerous mineral resources and surveys. Gives a history and past production of gold. More than 20 maps. A great guide. 192 pages.

The history and geology of the MotherLode Gold Country of California were well documented in numerous government mineral resource surveys throughout the century. This book compiles data from those reports, long unavailable, in a concise, convenient edition that concentrates on gold placer, hydraulic, and drift mines, giving location information as well as history and past production figures. Covering the mines of the Mother Lode, it also includes the other gold-producing counties of the southern and northern Sierra Nevada range, and the dredging areas of the American, Feather, and Yuba Rivers. More than twenty county maps, this is the complete guide to prospecting the Gold Country of California.