Stamp Mill Explore Real California Gold Mines!
The stamp mill was the big gold machine of its day. By 1850 in California all of the rivers and streams had been picked clean of placer gold. It didnt take long for miners to follow the gold deep into the Sierras steep valleys to snow white quartz outcroppings. They soon realized the gold trapped within these veins could produce thousands of ounces of gold and thus began hard rock or