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 ParkResearching 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.
Nugget Hunting Areas of Southern California- ReportOf 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.