Arizona is a popular place to prospect, with dry washing and nugget detecting being the most popular. Yet there is also plenty of lode mining potential. There are even a few places for panning and sniping – more if you bring your own water. It’s a snowbird haven and folks from colder climates flock there by the tens of thousands during the winter. Many Arizona placers are nuggety, small and widely scattered over a large area. In this video I go over some of the best known placer gold districts in the sate and talk about the geology that puts the gold there.
Here are the links I had promised to the book, The Arizona district map and state geology map:
Placer Deposits of Arizona, USGS publication 1355, Maureen Johnson:
https://pubs.usgs.gov/bul/1355/report...
Map of Arizona Placer Gold Districts from the USGS report above:
https://pubs.usgs.gov/bul/1355/plate-...
Arizona state Geology map,
https://repository.arizona.edu/handle...
For those who want to learn more about prospecting and finding gold check out my book, Fists full of Gold. It’s an encyclopedia of everything on the topic of prospecting. It’s available on Amazon. You can find it at (affiliate):
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/098...
For even more information on prospecting, minerals, gems and other related information you can also check out my website at:
http://nevada-outback-gems.com/prospe...
The Prospecting and Mining Journal magazine can be found at:
http://www.icmj.com