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AREA

The Gold Country is generally thought to lie north of Yosemite , along California State Highway 49 between the north fork of the Yuba River and the middle fork of the Cosumnes River .

It includes parts of nine of California's counties: Amador , Butte , Calaveras , El Dorado , Mariposa , Nevada , Placer , Sacramento and Tuolumne .


GEOLOGY

The Gold Country lies on the western slope of the Sierra Nevada , reaching down to the Sacramento Valley .


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