Sutter Gold Mine - Amador City, California

 

Sutter Gold Mine - Amador City, California

What an exciting opportunity to go underground and see what gold mining was like in the 1980’s when the mine was opened.  Now, it is just for tours to show visitors what it takes to go deep into the ground day after day digging for gold.

This is a modern hard rock mine.  Sutter Gold Mine offers a comprehensive look into the gold mining process and its historical progression from gold panning and hydraulic mining to hard rock techniques.

Above ground there is an opportunity for gemstone mining at the mining flumes.  Everyone is guaranteed to find some real gemstones.  You can also try the geode cracking which is popular with everyone.

The tour is approximately 1 hour when walking. It begins with gearing up in hard-hats and tagging in, then stepping aboard the Boss Buggy Shuttle for a historic journey deep underground.  You will learn to distinguish between real gold deposits and pyrite (known as Fools Gold.)

Children under 4 should NOT take the tour.

Admission: $17.50 adult, $11.50 children (4-12)

Temperature: 64 degrees F.

Hours: Mid-May through Mid-September, first tour leaves at 9 am and the last at 5 pm every day.

Winter hours: Mid-September through Mid-May Weekends Y holidays, first tour leaves at 10 and last at 5 every day.  Weekdays first tour leaves at 10 and the last at 4.

Directions: The hew Highway 49 bypass takes you AROUND historic highway 49 from Sutter Creek to Amador City.  To get to Sutter Gold Mine, you MUST be on historic highway 49.  From the south, make a right turn on “old Hwy 49”.  From the north, 2 miles south of Drytown, take the left turn lane with the sign that says “Amador City & Sutter Creek.

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