Now, you can find your very own Barite from lots of places in the world, but for this fun banded material, you’ll be going to hop onto Plomosa Road just north of Quartzsite and drive 12.2 miles to reach the gravel road to the northwest. Hop off the paved road and turn onto it, ...
Handheld GPS devices can be used to navigate to a new digging spot, or mark an existing one for easy navigation later! Many GPS units feature topographic maps and land status maps, which give your rockhound even more information about where they are and what they can and cannot do while t...
Government records, in the form of geological reports and maps, will tell you where and in what quantity gold has been recovered in the past. Because gold is washed down into placers over time, areas where a lot of gold has been found by earlier miners will -- even if the placer was...
I use a regular auto GPS, currently using a Nuvi 52LM on a Ram mount with VVMapping maps. The downside is that it's not waterproof but I put a plastic bag over it when there's any chance for it to get wet. The topographic information is not as good as a purpose-built off-road...
Since he did outdoor work updating the details of USGS topographic maps, we generally moved with the seasons, north in the summers and south in the winters. Sometimes, due to circumstances beyond my control, we moved more than twice a year. In fourth grade I went to four schools in four...