California’s Gold County is one of the best locations to take a gold bullion mining trip. One of the best locations is the Mother Lode near to the Sierra Nevada Mountains which spans 100 square miles. There are more than fifty other mining camps that span as many as eleven counties that can prove to be ideal for your gold mining trip.

A gold mining trip would not be complete without visiting those towns which got lucky by striking gold and have remained prosperous to this day. However, an exciting time awaits those who also try out the ghost mining towns that are part of some very attractive gold mining trips.

A gold mining trip that takes you down CA-49 or the Mother Lode Highway is not to be spurned as you will get to visit some very exciting mining camps from the early Gold Rush days and which include Auburn’s mining camps as well as those between Auburn and Mariposa.

Northern California was renowned for being the home of the Gold Rush and so your gold mining trip should include a visit to where gold was found in plenty in those parts of California. 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. In physics, Gold has the symbol of Au on the periodic table and an atomic number of seventy nine. It is a precious metal used in sculpture, jewellery and as an ornamental piece. Today gold is used in investment and as a guarantee against poor economic times but it looks set to be treasured around the world for centuries to come.