The Placer County Gold Collection on display in the Historic Courthouse
Gold! Gold! Gold!
Does that word still make your heart skip a beat; make you feel light on your feet? Gold attracts us all, but it is a difficult mineral to mine. How did the early ‘49ers mine for gold? How did their efforts evolve over time? Would you like to learn something about the history of placer mining and how to do it yourself? If so please join us on Saturday, March 13th at 1:00 pm upstairs in the Bernhard Museum Winery for a free Community Education program: Advanced Placer Mining Techniques. Museum docent and lifelong gold miner Don Albrecht will present information about early placer mining methods used during the Gold Rush. On display will be various tools used in placer mining. Because seating is limited, reservations are required for this program.
For more information, or to reserve your seat, please call 530-889-6500.
Oh God! I can't make the program but I would like to see it. I love gold and wish I had more of it. I just finished watching the Oscars again. I DVR'd it. I watch the Oscars all the time, those pretty gold statuettes. I would like to see how they are made and exactly how much real gold is in them. Do you know?
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of Oscars, Steven Speilberg is a genious. I can't believe he's only won one, or was it two? Either way, he deserves more.
How did the first 49ers extract gold from the earth? Did the indians tell them how to do it? Wasa this something that the program would cover? Oh, I wish I could go, but I can't. My sister in Benecia is throwing a birthday party for my neice and I have to be there. She's a great girl -- my neice, not my sister. I have to be there. I wish I could be in Auburn for the program. But I will miss it. Poo!
Thank you for your comment. Each year, Don presents a program on gold mining. Please keep watching this blog for upcoming programs.
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