Kennedy Mine, Jackson, Amador County

Visitors to the Kennedy Gold Mine can see the 125 foot high metal head frame, tour several mining buildings, and learn the history of the Kennedy Mine.

Mining equipment on display helps to depict the different gold mining process, and visitors can try their own hand at gold panning in one of the Kennedy Mine troughs. Pans and mining instructions are available.

The most visual relics of the Kennedy mine are the head frame and the tailing wheels. In fact, the wheels have become a symbol of the Gold Country. The ore was taken from the vertical shaft and dumped into bins attached to the headframe. Ore cars took the material to the mill over connecting bridge. The ore was crushed by stamps and processed in the mill. After the gold was separated, the semi-liquid residue went by pipe and flumes to a valley below. From there it was lifted over the hill by four large elevator wheels. The wheels were originally enclosed .