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Gold Prospecting Trip 5
Today we walked up the Hassayampa River for a little while. We saw lots of people out and about 4x4ing and playing horseshoes and other games in the middle of the river where its dry. We had a different course of action and that was to find the yellow metal gold. We spent most of…
Gold Prospecting Trip 1
This is our first time going out to to explore one of the richest gold mines ever.Josh, Jenna (my sister) and I took a trip to the Vulture Mine in Wickenburg, Arizona. We read about the history of this place and decided to go take a look for ourselves. Today is a drizzly day with…
Gold Prospecting Trip 8
Today we headed out to a gulch where we sampled areas along the bedrock cracks, under huge round boulders and down along the inside turns of a stream. We were surprised to see water because of how many other areas nearby have dwindled this part of the year. This particular gulch has very tall and…
Geocommunicator Mining Claim Maps discontinued
I just found out that geocommunicator.gov Mining Claim maps have been discontinued. They have a notice on their web site. Well, I’m not that bummed. I stopped using it for locating mining claims after learning how inaccurate it was. I still used it as a tool to visualize the PLSS grid and SMA (Surface Management…
Gold Prospecting Trip 3
My buddy Josh and I have registered a 40 acre claim at a secret place near Wickenburg, AZ. Just recently, we went out to the property and walked around the entire place. It was a lot of ground to cover. We saw lots of quartz and mineralized rocks were spread out everywhere and black sand…
Gold Prospecting Trip 68
We came back to Rock Springs in search for more of that yellow metal we saw last time. We now have more equipment and more manpower. We drove our equipment to and from the site with a Polaris Ranger RZR 4 800. It was very comfortable to ride and handled much better than a quad….