Mother Lode Designs most recent website work is a Blog for Lake Tahoe Pinecones.

The California Mother Lode is a zone from 1.5 to 6 kilometres (0.93 to 3.7 mi) wide and 190 kilometres (120 mi) long, extending from Georgetown in El Dorado County on the north, through Amador, Calaveras, and Tuolumne counties, south to Mormon Bar inMariposa County. It was discovered in the early 1850s, during the California gold rush. Following the elucidation of the theory of plate tectonics, the Mother Lode was found to coincide with the suture line of a terrane, the Smartville Block. The zone contains hundreds of mines and prospects, including some of the best-known historic mines of the gold-rush era. Individual gold deposits within the Mother Lode are gold-bearing quartz veins up to 15 metres (49 ft) thick and a few thousand feet long. The California Mother Lode was one of the most productive gold-producing districts in the United States.  Now it is known as a destination for tourism.^[2]

The California gold rush, as with most gold rushes, started with the discovery of placer gold in sands and gravels of streambeds, where the gold had eroded from the hard-rock vein deposits. Placer miners followed the gold-bearing sands upstream to discover the source in the bedrock. This source was the “mother” of the gold in the river and so was dubbed the “mother lode“.

- from Wikipedia  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_lode

I’m proud to announce a new business name ‘Mother Lode Designs – MLD’!  The unique name is very popular to the area in which I now live in and run my local business.  MLD will be expanding their online design solutions in 2012.  If you don’t find a service listed yet on this website that you are interest in then please Contact us because we most likely can help you out with almost anything related to online services!

~Leesa