Arizona Prospecting |
Arizona Prospecting |
Oct 23 2008, 12:13 AM
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Rock Bar! Group: Members Posts: 464 Joined: 2-March 06 From: Lewis KS Member No.: 319 |
Here is the start of my Arizona Prospecting adventure.......haven't made it down there yet but will very soon.......here is some charts that will come in very handy for me.......the counties i'll be spending most of my time in is Maricopa witch Wickenburg is right at the edge of and also Yavapai witch is right above Wickenburg and also where Staton is located in.........looks like i'll be on the lookout for some cool rocks and minerals.......
Here is the site.......cool info about AZ on this site http://www.come2az.com/azlinks/alice_favorites.htm
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Oct 23 2008, 07:56 AM
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Master Mucker! Group: Admin Posts: 7,189 Joined: 7-October 03 From: Colorado Member No.: 4 |
Great list Scott, but always know the status of the land where your at before collecting ANYWHERE.
Lots of research involved in knowing if land is open or claimed before going out there to get the goodies. Good luck, and stay safe. -------------------- Education is the key to the future,
and participation opens the door to opportunity. Discover your prospecting independence & success! ColoradoProspector.com Owner/Webmaster Core team member ♥ |
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Oct 25 2008, 11:38 AM
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Rock Bar! Group: Members Posts: 348 Joined: 2-February 04 From: Mesa Arizona Member No.: 81 |
Great list Scott, but always know the status of the land where your at before collecting ANYWHERE. Lots of research involved in knowing if land is open or claimed before going out there to get the goodies. Good luck, and stay safe. Scott this is good advice. Many people have been "hurt" high grading someone's claim out here and because of the up swing in gold there are a lot of people that just don't know better so, miners are even more vigilant than ever. Since you seem to know Wick real well. There is a road behind the McDonald's called Constellation Road. It's easy to find, and a beautiful ride. There are many old mines along the road and it ends at the Williams Ranch which is one of the oldest in Arizona. about 2 or 3 miles from town you will come to a big switch back in the road. If you don't know what that is you will when you see it, you practically make a "U" turn. Just pass the switch back there is a hill on the left side of the road. We call it Geode Hill because of all the Geodes that have been found there. You can't miss it because on the right side of the road someone wrote "Geode Hill" on a big rock. This IS open ground so feel free to help yourself. If you stop at the switch back and walk up Calamity Wash, there you will find a large opening in the rock wall. If you look up, the black on the ceiling is from thousands of years of Indians cooking in there. There are also some Petroglyphs back there. There is a book in Wickenberg Books Stores that tell the history of Constellation Road. It's called "Where the Past Lives-Constellation Road". It's written in such a manner that you can drive down the road as someone else reads.( Don't read it while you drive you'll hit a cow) Now it's not up to date but it will give you some guidance on areas that are claimed and what''s not. There are a great deal of minerals along this road not just gold. Enjoy AZ it's beautiful out here, just be careful, the Rattle Snakes come in all shapes and sizes -------------------- "Nobody get's in to see the Wizard, not nobody not no how."
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Nov 19 2008, 06:38 PM
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Rock Bar! Group: Members Posts: 464 Joined: 2-March 06 From: Lewis KS Member No.: 319 |
Well i made it back from Arizona and am now back in Colorado......found no work or gold....sigh....but i had fun and will be back to AZ someday....i did come home with some rocks from Burro Creek.......Hey sgaolson.....thanks for the info...didn't know there was Geodes around Wickenburg.....if i would of i probably would of gone there and also came home with some geodes......oh well that is something for the next time.....here is some links to the video's i took while i was there..
JB Claims http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseacti...ideoID=46761688 LDMA Camp Stanton http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseacti...ideoID=46761175 GPAA Lucky Linda Claim http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseacti...ideoID=46760965 GPAA Congress Group Claim http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseacti...ideoID=46760626 Burro Creek http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseacti...ideoID=46759789 Ol' Miner http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseacti...ideoID=46759629 here is a website that makes these machines....really cool http://www.charactersunlimitedinc.com Grand Canyon National Park http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseacti...ideoID=46758977 Petrified Forest National Park http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseacti...ideoID=46758643 Arizona Pictures http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseacti...ideoID=46730457 |
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Jul 27 2011, 01:02 PM
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Rock Bar! Group: Members Posts: 464 Joined: 2-March 06 From: Lewis KS Member No.: 319 |
Ok i'm going to start up this thread for my camper and stuff i add to it because this camper is for the trip to Arizona in October...I'm getting this camper ready for Arizona to live in for awhile while i try and find work...i have been looking into mostly the western part of the state this time (Quartzsite, Parker and Lake Havasu City) if you remember back when this post was active back in 2008 i went to Wickenburg to try and find work with no success but i'm hopeing i will have better luck in the western part of the state. I like the looks of Quartzsite...it's a small town with about all you need (except for Wally World lol..have to go to Parker about 40 miles north for that) but Quartzsite looks like my kinda town with rock shops and jewelry shops everywhere http://www.manta.com/mb_51_ALL_0S8/quartzs...results...rocks rock shows/flea market shows all the time it seems http://www.desertusa.com/Cities/az/quartzite.html. Will just have to see what happens this time..just hope to have more $$$ this time then last time but NO staying in a dang expensive motel this time so that's why i got this camper.
Facebook Video I Made: http://www.facebook.com/v/10150245626267099 But as you have noticed and i explained in the above video that it doesn't have a bathroom so i have been finding ways to make a outdoor one...Here is a 12V Portable Shower i just got today...Here is the Facebook Video: http://www.facebook.com/v/10150254227097099 Website: http://www.12vshower.com/ Shower Took 7mins 30sec. to get threw that 5gal bucket...not bad. |
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Jul 27 2011, 06:39 PM
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russau Group: Members Posts: 2,841 Joined: 4-December 03 From: st.louis missouri Member No.: 43 |
no a/c? AZ. may be a little warm this time of year!
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Jul 28 2011, 06:55 PM
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Shovel Buster! Group: Members Posts: 230 Joined: 2-August 09 From: Security, CO Member No.: 6,964 |
no a/c? AZ. may be a little warm this time of year! I agree with Russ. I'd rather go without a shower for a couple/three days, than without some way of keeping cool. -------------------- 26 year Air Force Vet
LDMA/GPAA, GPOC, & CP LIFE MEMBER 'If you don't stand for something, you will fall for everything.' A government big enough to give you everything you want is strong enough to take everything you have! |
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Jul 29 2011, 12:11 PM
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Rock Bar! Group: Members Posts: 464 Joined: 2-March 06 From: Lewis KS Member No.: 319 |
I won't be going down until about 60 days....by then the temps. will be going down and the nights can get down to freezeing (but not like here when the temps can get below 0 ).....but accually even right now i would rather be down there then here in Kansas because the temps here have been 110-115 in the shade...now in the sun it's much worse with the high humidity (mostly temp + high pressure-makeing it hard to breath sometimes..not so much temp and moisture in the air because we haven't got much rain..just enough to make it a muggy mess lol). In Arizona what the temp. says is what it is because the humidity is much lower (except durning monsoon season). During the summer months most people in AZ do more durning the night hours because of the heat...so just think about it for awhile...3 months of heat not as bad as here then nice during the rest of the year or live up here and only have about 3 good months all year??=less time to go prospecting unless your a nut and love to prospect durning winter. lol
Here is a story i was told from a truck driver that delivered to Cross....He use to drive down to AZ all the time....he went into a barber shop and the barber asked him...How hot do you think it is outside??...the driver said.....idk...95....the barber said nope it's 105 out right now....so what does that tell ya....now here in Kansas it's opposite...it feels alot worse then it really is on the thermometer. So why is that....it's the humidity.......AZ is low humidity (dry heat) and Kansas is higher humidity (wetter heat that make you sweat like a pig out of the sun no matter where you are)...Yes i know Arizona isn't perfect but i haven't found paradise yet....lol My cousin was back from Chanler AZ and here is what he said: Absolutely! I was just back in KS this past weekend and between the heat and humidity it was repressive! At least in AZ it is cool in the shade - except during monsoon! It's mostly a matter of choice......live in Kansas where there is two extreams (higher humidity with heat and cold as hec during winter with "snow") or in AZ with only one extream (dry heat durning summer..except durning monsoon and mild winters with "NO SNOW") lol......what's your choice?? P.S. the house i'm in right now doesn't have AC..thank god my room has a window unit...in this house it's like one extream to another going in and out of my room...lol |
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Jul 30 2011, 10:02 AM
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russau Group: Members Posts: 2,841 Joined: 4-December 03 From: st.louis missouri Member No.: 43 |
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Oct 29 2011, 02:23 PM
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Rock Bar! Group: Members Posts: 464 Joined: 2-March 06 From: Lewis KS Member No.: 319 |
Welp i made it to Quartzsite (been here for about a week now)...here is some pics and a video
All Pics are from Dome Rock Camp Looking I-10 V Video: La Posa South...South of Quartzsite off hwy 95...where i 1st stopped for the night before going to Dome Rock...This is my home until April 15th http://www.facebook.com/v/10150353488282099 |
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Oct 30 2011, 07:01 AM
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Moderator Group: Members Posts: 4,459 Joined: 25-August 09 From: way on up thar Member No.: 6,983 |
Scott,
Thanks for the update and glad to see you finally got out from digging under that bridge. Looks like you're in a nice spot! Good looking camper and solar panels. -------------------- /l ,[____], l---L-OlllllllO- ()_) ()_)--o-)_) BLACK SANDS MATTER! Very Happy CP Lifetime Member CP CORE TEAM Referral Code CE213 |
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Mar 19 2012, 10:50 PM
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Rock Bar! Group: Members Posts: 464 Joined: 2-March 06 From: Lewis KS Member No.: 319 |
Made it back home Wed. looks like i'm way behind on here...kept facebook up-to-date but not here and that's because in AZ i was limited lol so here is the rest of the pics and videos
Pictures (let me know if you can't see these) http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1...mp;l=c0c1c885b6 La Posa South (Campsite) Video http://www.facebook.com/v/10150353488282099 Video 1of3 QMDC (Quartzsite Metal Detecting Club) New Claim http://www.facebook.com/v/10150361235552099 Video 2of3 QMDC New Claim http://www.facebook.com/v/10150361244467099 Video 3of3 QMDC New Claim http://www.facebook.com/v/10150361245767099 Quartzsite Metal Detecting Club Coin Hunt Jan. 21 2012 http://www.facebook.com/v/10150511781412099 Crystal Hill...Site 54...Jan. 28th 2012 http://www.facebook.com/v/10150527701597099 Saddle Mountain Fire Agate, Chalcedony and Crystals...Site 61 http://www.facebook.com/v/10150543054932099 Feb. 6th 2012...Big Horn Mountain Fluorite...Site 55 http://www.facebook.com/v/10150548885297099 Feb. 17th 2012...Bouse Hematite and Jasper...Site 50A http://www.facebook.com/v/10150576078477099 Congress Area March 9th 2012 http://www.facebook.com/v/10150616788102099 Wickenburg Nodules...Site 63 http://www.facebook.com/v/10150617640242099 Desert Roses...Site 8 http://www.facebook.com/v/10150617648167099 March 11th 2012...Burro Creek http://www.facebook.com/v/10150623894932099 |
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Mar 20 2012, 08:11 AM
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russau Group: Members Posts: 2,841 Joined: 4-December 03 From: st.louis missouri Member No.: 43 |
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Oct 15 2014, 07:44 AM
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Rock Bar! Group: Members Posts: 464 Joined: 2-March 06 From: Lewis KS Member No.: 319 |
Oct. 2 2014...I almost made it to Quartzsite until this happened...I made it to Wellton Az (about 20 miles from Yuma)...now I'm back home to take some time to rebuild..i don't know when i'll get another chance to go. :(
http://m.yumasun.com/news/driver-injured-i...ml?mode=jqm_gal |
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Oct 15 2014, 07:59 AM
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Master Mucker! Group: Members Posts: 1,301 Joined: 17-February 12 From: Central CO Member No.: 41,357 |
Oct. 2 2014...I almost made it to Quartzsite until this happened...I made it to Wellton Az (about 20 miles from Yuma)...now I'm back home to take some time to rebuild..i don't know when i'll get another chance to go. :( http://m.yumasun.com/news/driver-injured-i...ml?mode=jqm_gal OH MAN! Are you ok? -------------------- Caveman
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