Have you heard of the California gold rush? The area was picked clean 170 years ago when people were pulling fist sized nuggets out of the Kern river. Finding a

Have you heard of the California gold rush? The area was picked clean 170 years ago when people were pulling fist sized nuggets out of the Kern river. Finding a little gold embedded in quartz isn’t all that special. We suspect they were left in some mining camp tailings because transporting the rock wouldn’t have been worth the tiny bits of gold embedded in it and naturally reburried a century or more ago. A public recreational mining area in a historical gold mining region is obviously going to be located where they’ve found gold before. If you want you can go buy mineral rights along the Kern river and do your own searching but as a state we’ve been there, done that, and the football team we named after it has already won a bunch of Superbowls.