California Gold Explorers

Welcome to California Gold Explorers. California has tens of thousands of gold mines, mills and towns slowly fading back into the earth. This site is dedicated to sharing California’s rich gold mining heritage with other explorers, adventurist and historians before it’s gone.

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Almaden Quicksilver County Park

January 4, 2015

In Mojave National Preserve October 21, 2018

Atolia

Unlike many of the sites we visit, Atolia has tons of data out on the web. Its relatively modern past from 1907 to 2007 combined with its extremely…

In Mojave National Preserve December 27, 2014

Sun Group of Mines

Located in Mesquite Canyon between Burro Schmidt Tunnel and Garlock lies a group of six tunnels according to USGS Historic Topo. I couldn’t find any real history on…

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In Other Locations November 22, 2018

New Idria

Several years into exploring we surprisingly enough had never heard of New Idria. After binge watching Wonder Hussy’s YouTube Channel we realized the site was no secret and…

In Death Valley National Park November 18, 2018

Defense Mine

The Defense Mine is a popular jeep, 4×4, rock crawler and hiking destination located 2 miles up Stone Canyon in the western slopes of Panamint Valley. Discovered in…

In Mother Lode (Northern) November 17, 2018

Winkeye Mine

The Winkeye Mine peaked our interest after watching a YouTube and reading a blog post by Justin Ames aka The Velvet Rocket. One of Justin’s earlier explorations before…