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It will look like you are turning into a Walmart parking lot, don’t worry, that is correct.
They are open 10-4 Mon-Fri 10-5 Weekends
They have a huge great gift shop full of things my son loves and I had bought many of those items before and felt they were very reasonably priced. There is a penny press machine there with 4 different pennies at 51 cents each. They were very nice to exchange dollar bills for me to get correct change and made sure I got shiny pennies.
We had some time, so we went and watched the short video about panning for gold. We then each went and panned for gold. You shake the sand with water and then carefully empty out the water. There is a person there to ask if you need them to show you how. When you get to almost no sand, you take it to the experts and they will dig out your gold. My husband and son each had 3 flakes of gold, I got 1. They put it in a small test tube like container that will preserve it.
It was then time for our tour. We met in a courtyard and then you go watch about a 5 minute movie. We then went into the tunnel and they suggest you put on hard hats. This is the narrowest part of the tour when you walk in. You then go to the part where they found the gold many years ago and if you look up you can see the sky. Through the tour you see tools they use, a “huge hole with a little lake at the bottom, “and at one point they will turn off the lights so you can see what it use to look like in there with a “torch” like the real miners did.
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