By Tom Ashworth — AMADOR COUNTY, CALIFORNIA County

Source: Tom Ashworth's Prospectors Cache (tomashworth.com / Tom Ashworth). Author: Tom Ashworth. Original page: amador_ca.shtml. Area: by Tom Ashworth. Map coordinates refined from text (landmark: "America, AMADOR COUNTY, CALIFORNIA County, California, USA"). Still approximate — verify on the ground. LOCATION COUNTY: Amador County STATE: California Amador County was the most productive of "The Mother Lode" counties. This county produced approximately 6,500,000 ounces of placer gold and 7,700,000 ounces of lode gold. Mining continues today. The richest area in this county is about 1 mile wide across the west central part of the county from the south to the north. The Old Eureka Mine had the deepest shaft in America at 1,3500 feet deep and it was the largest producer in the mother lode in the early days. The Kennedy, Argonaut and Keystone Mines were also large gold mines in the same area.