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• California's Gold Rush Country
  Resource devoted to the 1849 California gold rush presents a tour of gold country, a look at how the 49ers made their way west and links.
   

• Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park Researching the Stampeders There are a number of sites that list resources and maintain searchable databases of people who went north to Alaska and Canada during the gold rush. These sites are an easy place to begin your research.
   

• California Gold Mining Terms and Procedures
  Museum of the City of San Francisco provides a primer for people interested in learning about the terms and operations of goldminers.
   

• Mother Lode - The Gold Rush Chronicles
  Describes the camps, mines, and towns that sprung up around the vein of gold that stretched 120 miles in the Sierra Nevada foothill region.
   

• The South Central Federation of Mineral Societies
  This site is intended to give those individuals interested in rocks, minerals, faceting and lapidary, a source for information on the earth sciences and supporting organizations.
   

• The Sunnywood Collection - Minerals & Fossils
  Providing museum quality mineral and fossil specimens from classic world-wide localities, and fine bird and fish stone carvings from Brazil and Peru.
   

• Gold Prospectors Association of America
  Register for an expedition, read articles in the prospector's electronic magazine, get membership info, or order equipment from the catalog.
   

• Gold Prospectors Association of America
  Gold Prospectors Association (GPAA) was founded in 1968 to preserve and promote the great heritage of the North American Prospector. The GPAA was also dedicated to providing a platform for the exchange of information.
   

• Silver & Gold
  Exhibition at the Oakland Museum documents the California Gold Rush with a collection of photos from the era. View historical info and images.
   

• California Gold Country - Highway '49 Revisited
  Provides descriptions and histories of 56 different mining camps. Includes profiles of the more prominent gold rush personalities.

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• Nugget Hunting Areas of Southern California- Report Of some 1,100 goldbearing areas in Southern California, only a relative few consistently produce gold nuggets large enough to find with a metal detector. This report lists, and gives basic directions to, those areas. ... Gold Hunter. Top: Books: Where to find Gold: California: Nugget Hunting Areas of Southern California: Report.

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