Between 1851 & 1959 there was a total amount  of 1,777,000 ounces of gold came from Kern County

The Amalie Mine was a major producer of Gold. It had a total amount of 30,000 oz of lode gold. The Amalie Mine located in the Amalie district, is located between south summit of the Piute Mountains and Caliente Creek in township 30S. range 33E and 34E, 

The Bright Star Mine, which had around, 34,000 ounces of lode gold & is located southeast off of a dirt road in Bodfish in the Green Mountain district located between the west slope of the Piute Mountains and edge of Kelsey Valley on east side of mountains.  

The Joe Walker Mine had around 100,000 ounces of lode gold, and is located 7 miles northwest of Piute, in township 29S and range 33E.

The Big Blue Mine produced free gold and was associated with arsenopyrite there was a total production amount of 262,800 oz..  The Big Blue Mine is located In Kernville, in township 25S. range 33E.

The Keyes district had a total amount of 39,600 oz found  through 1959.  In the Greenhorn Mountains West in Lake Isabella along the Greenhorn Gulch, there were extensive placers which produced rich gold deposits. Also in the area are quartz mines which contained some lode gold.  There were numerous area Mines that produced lode gold.

The Pine Tree Mine had a amount of 75,000 oz of lode gold & is located in Mohave in the township 11N and range 15W.   If you go southwest by 4 mile in township 10N and 11N and range 11W, 12W, and 13W, you will find

The Rosamond-Mohave district, that had total amount of 278,250 oz of gold & silver.  To the West of Rosamond you will come to find the Tropico Mine, & which was a major producer thru the 1950’s. There are many other area mines around Wheeler Springs that produced lode gold. If you travel northeast about 25 miles to the El Paso Mountains you will find that are major Mines in the area  The Cudahy Camp, Owens Camp, Burro Schmidt’s Tunnel,  &  The Colorado Camp, etc. all were rich in lode gold. This is a very RICH AREA Lots of Gold was found.

The Rand District, in Randsburg, is located along the Kern County, San Bernardino County line, nearly all of the 836,300 oz of gold came from this area. The Yellow Aster Mine was the largest producer, and many other area mines produced lode gold. If you go northwest 9 miles, in Goler Gulch, the placer deposits were worked 1893-94..

Goler Gulch

ANCIENT STREAMBEDS (TERTIARY CHANNELS): Old rivers usually dried that generally ran in a southerly direction during the Tertiary time period. it was during this time that most of the rich surface lodes were eroded and the gold was washed down to these ancient rivers.

BASADA: An alluvial deposit in the desert

BAR: Deposits of sand and rocks located in the streambed where the force of the water goes, an example is at the inside bends where rivers or streams change direction.

BEDROCK: Is the solid rock surface which underlies the loose sediments in a river or streambed

BENCHES: Parts of the old natural streambed that has been left dry by the active waterway

BLEEDING OFF: The natural erosion of the bench gravels in a present stream or river.

BLUE LEAD: Is the bottom of a ancient riverbed gravel, these gravels we known to be sometime very rich.

CALICHE: A layer of gravels and clay that have compacted, and is often found int he desert areas. They also create a false bedrock. Gold deposits can be found in the surface of the caliche layers.

CEMENTED GRAVEL: is hard-packed streambed material found ontop of bedrock or in the layers above.

CLAY: found sometimes in the streambed and must be broken up before running into a sluice box.

COUNTRY ROCK: Earths crust the most common rock.

DIKE: Are a narrow section of igneous rock which extends up out of the Country rock, Dikes make excellent gold traps.

ELUVIAL DEPOSIT: is a gold or other lode deposit that has been carried away from the original lode, but has not made its way to a active waterway.

FALSE BEDROCK: A hard pack of material (sediment) in a streambed that will give the impression of being the bedrock itself.

FANNING: its the sweepeing of light gravels and sand off the bedrock while looking for gold.

FLOAT: Are loose pieces of quartz rock or other type of gold bearing rock that has traveled down from its original source. This is generally what the prospector will follow in search of the lode deposit.

FLOOD LAYERS: some streams or riverbeds will have different layers of materials that were layed there during storms from different periods of time, Each layer may contain its own gold.

FLUME: Is a man made water ditch, it was is used for transporting water to mining sites in the earlier days of mining.

GANGUE: The waste materials and rocks of no value that are associated with the material that is valuable in a lode deposit.

GLORY HOLE: A term meaning very rich gold deposit

GRADIENT: Is the downward slope in a cluice box or active waterway.

HAIRLINE CRACKS: Is the small minute sized cracks which are found along the bedrocls surface at teh bottoms of a waterway sometimes containing a large amounts of gold.

HARDROCK MINING: The process of mining mineral veins.

HIGH GRADE: The rich ore samples from a lode mine.

LOAMING: Is the process of digging for mineral float or indiciations of a residual eluvial deposit.

LODE: Veins of valuable minerals.

Material: term used often in mining indicating rocks, gravels, clay etc. which make up a streambed

MINERALIZATION: Is the conditionof an ore or streambed/river material having minerals present in the rock or material.

MINING CLAIM: Land which the mining rights have been legally claimed for a period of time and can be mined without anyone interfering .

MOSS: small green or brown plants growing close to one another, and has a tendenccy to trap gold.

MOSSING: A mining activity in which moss is collected and broken up in a container to collect gold.

ORE: Any rock deposit which a valuable material can be extracted.

OUTCROPPING: is the end of a lode that extends outward from with in the earth.

OVERBURDEN: This is the lower grade streambed material which lies on top of a placer paylaer or lode deposit. it needs usually to be removed first before processign the gold deposit.

PAY-DIRT: the material in a streambed which contains paying quantities of gold.

PAY-STREAK: large placer gold traps

PLACER DEPOSIT: Gold that has eroded away from it original lode.

PLAYED OUT: Gold deposit that runs out.

PLEISTOCENE CHANNELS: Is the remnants of the earliest rivers or stream channels. Many of these channels remain untouched by early mining and still contain large amounts of gold.

POTHOLE: Holes along the bedrock that trap gold.

QUARTZ: Consists mainly of silica and it as a tendency to trap gold,

RAW ORE: is the ore that comes straight out of the lode.

RESIDUAL DEPOSIT: gold deposit and float that has left its original lode but has not been swept away by forces of nature.

SEDIMENTS: The Earthm sand rocks etc.. that have broken free from the bedrock and has been deposited by forces of nature.

TAILINGS: processed materials from the stream/river/hardrock and discarded

TOPOGRAPHICAL MAP: A specialized map showing positions of rivers mountains, streams, lay of the land , elevations etc…

VEIN: is a hardrock deposit of ore /rock that is dissimilar to surrounding country rock. it has pretty much a uniform development as to its size.

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CLASSIFIER: A screening device used to process larger size materials from a body of ore, gravels or concentrates, Classifications is often done with various size mesh screens.

DREDGE: also called a Suction Dredge is a Machine designed to suck up submerged material from a streambed and wash them through an attached sluice box at the waters surface.

DRYWASHER: A machine designed to process dry placer materials with out the use of water. This Machine usually uses air currents and vibrations to separate lighter material from heavier material.

GOLD PAN: A device used to to help in the separation of gold from the lighter material. The gold pan is one of the most widely used pieces of equipment used today. it comes in various shapes and sizes.

GOLD SNIFTER: A handheld plastic suction device used to extract the gold from your pan, or a crevice in the streambed.

GRIZZLEY: A classification device used to stop large boulders and rocks from being dropped into a recovery system usually on a dredge.

HEAD OF BOX: The top end of the slucice box where the material is shoveled into.

HEADER BOX: The top most section of the Sluice box that is designed to slow down and spread out the materials evenly over the classifier as it enters.

HOOKAH-AIR SYSTEM: The air breathing system used on most dredges to pump air to the divers by a compressor through an airline.

HUNGARIAN RIFFLES: Concentrating-type riffles which are found on dredges and sluices today.

HYDRAULIC CONCENTRATOR: A sluicing device that can be used as a production or sampling maching. It has a very wide range of variety in its ability to process material from a streambed, and its a perfect piece of equipmetn for the one man or two man operation.

JET: The part on the suction dredge that water is pumped into which creates suction up through the suction hose

PLUGGER POLE ( JAM ROD): A long thin rod made of a variety of materials to unjam plugs in the dredge.

PRIMER: Is a device on the suction dredge that connects the water pump to the water. It is set up to be filled with water and can be easily primed from the surface.

RETORT: A device that is used to extract Mercury from gold or other materials once the amalgamation process has been completed.

SLUICE BOX: A device shaped like a trough where where water and streambed material are washed. The Sluice has a series of baffles and riffles lying along the bottom edge to capture gold as it passes through.

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