California Colorado Idaho Montana Nevada New Mexico Oregon South Dakota Utah Washington Wyoming “The best way to find gold is to go where gold is already being found. And the best way to see where gold is being found is to look at a map of active gold mining claims.” ...
On the Colorado River due north of Yuma, Arizona you will find Picacho Camp in the extreme southeast corner of the county. The Chocolate Mountains area placer and lode claims produce considerable gold. In the southwest you will find the Picacho Mountains that had many gold bearing veins in gne...
That's why I have assembled the following information on the placer districts of both Northern Nevada and Northern California. I have also included two other areas I have prospected, Arizona and Alaska. While this may be enough info to get you started, further details on the claims and land...
230 to Fox Park Road, which would then take us down to Douglass Creek (Fox Park Road is mentioned in the directions given in the Claims Guide). One of the locals drew us a map of the route we would need. By the time we figured out how to get to the claims, it was 11:00 am,...
Gold primarily occurs in three different geologic settings in Michigan: 1.) bedrock, 2.) sediments erroded from bedrock by glaciation, and 3.) in stream gravels. The most significant commercially viable claims have been made north of Ishpeming. ...
all the good river-bottom claims had been staked by prospectors in the area, and they spent the remainder of the winter and spring digging out their riches from the renamed Bonanza Creek. Another prospector made his way up Eldorado Creek, which fed into the Bonanza, and found more gold, ...
Unregulated mines and uncontrolled sprawl make La Rinconada, Peru, a dangerous place where the desperate seek their fortunes.
the claims. The Trail The Bradshaw Trail near Wiley's Well Campground A charismatic, hard-drinking, generous, eccentric and physically powerful man – a natural leader on the frontier – Bradshaw recruited eight men to scout out the more direct route to La Paz. In May of 1862, he and his...
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unexpected changes in mine life, seasonality and weather, costs and timing of the development of new deposits, success of exploration activities, permitting time lines, government regulation of mining operations, environmental risks, unanticipated reclamation expenses, title disputes or claims, and lim...