Roaring Camp Mining Co.
Gold mining can be one of the most thrilling Outdoor Adventures and Fun California that one can experience when visiting a mining camp resort in California. This is one place where an individual can re-live the event of the gold rush of 1849. Most of these mining camps established during the 1800s still exist and are an active mining site today. However, to increase the mining site revenue, owners allow visitors and tourists to come and experience for a fee the thrill of knowing the rudiments of gold mining. They also offer their guest to have a go and experience how it feels to pan for gold. Gold mining today uses various techniques, depending on the mining situation. Most techniques and tools are relatively simple that even a child can do it. Panning is considered to be the easiest and the most common type of gold mining technique. The process involves the simple use of a pan to scoop a pile of dirt or muck from the river. These sediments collected are then washed away with water leaving the heavier materials to remain on the pan hoping that the materials left would turn out to be gold. Although this is the most common technique used by individual miners today, it is ironically a process that yields the least result. However in mining camp resorts where tourists abound they still use the panning method to mine for gold.
For people who really understand Gold Mining Adventures California, they are aware that hard rock gold mining is one of the most serious techniques used in mining sites. This technique allows miners to work inside the mine using picks and other equipment to chip hard rock off the walls of mountain. The idea is that among the ordinary rock being chip off, precious metal such as gold can be found. This technique is also one of the best ways to find significant quantities of gold. However, hard rock gold mining has grown increasingly less as the years have gone by. The technique was very much used only during the early to the mid 1900s. By then the technique was found to very dangerous and laborious work for the miners because they would have to mine in dark tunnels that are dug beforehand. There have been instances of cave-ins that have left miners to be trapped inside the mine shaft. This technique is also physically draining on the miner that one needs to be in per