-
arizona
please someone email me and tell me where in arizona they let tourists pay and dig or pan for gems or gold in arizona. my husband's going on wed. and i want him to dig me up some goodies.
Keyword tags:
None
Posted:
Feb 29 2008, 1:24 PM EST by
-
ARIZONA GOLD
SAW THE SHOW LAST NIGHT AND CANNOT LOCATE THE FELLOW (KEVIN HAGLUND) WHO WILL TAKE YOU OUT METAL DETECTING FOR GOLD IN ARIZONA. DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY INFO?
Keyword tags:
None
Posted:
Nov 6 2008, 8:49 PM EST by
-
where is the best place to gem hunt in arizona?
"This will be my husband and my first time doing this. " Arizona is loaded with good collecting places. I'd suggest that you go to a rock shop and pick up a copy of Arizona Gem Trails. It will only set you back a few bucks, and will be loaded with good information and maps. And if you should happen to stray across the border into Southern California, the fire agate digs are just a few miles from the border. On the west side of the fire agate site is the Wiley Wells / Coon Hollow area that is loaded with places to dig for geodes. Lots of agate, jasper and common opal in the area too. Happy huntin.
Don
Keyword tags:
None
Posted:
May 30 2009, 8:22 PM EDT by
-
Help in Arizona
I just moved to Kingman, and I have heard about turquoise, agate and fire opals in this area. I'm having trouble finding out how to go about finding these things. I've read about the mineral park mine, but I understand it's private property. Does anyone know of any public mines in the area. Any info would be great. Thank you.
Keyword tags:
None
Posted:
Apr 8 2008, 11:38 AM EDT by
-
Rockhounding Friends
If you are looking for someone to discuss your Arizona rockhounding adventures with, or someone to partner up with in the east valley to go rockhounding. Send me a message
Tom (AZrhound)
Posted:
May 29 2008, 2:52 PM EDT by
-
Quartzsite Field Trip with Bob Jones
If anyone is going to Quartzsite, Arizona, for the QIA Pow Wow (Jan. 21-25, 2009), look up the Rock & Gem magazine booth and sign up for our field trip. I don't have many details to share yet, but it will be led by our senior consulting editor, Bob Jones, who is by way of a big noise in the mineral collecting hobby and a very entertaining guy. It would be worth going along just to hear him talk about his rockhounding experiences, which cover 60-plus years. I'll post more when I know more.
Posted:
Nov 7 2008, 1:13 PM EST by
-
good place to treasure hunt in AZ
my dad and I wish to go on a cheap treasure hunt close to home anyone know any good places to treasure hunt in Arizona
Keyword tags:
None
Posted:
Dec 31 2007, 8:33 PM EST by
-
Opal Page
This looks great! WOW it is some beautiful material. Just need more money to go play moe! lol
The only suggestion I may have is to size the picture down bit.. I think that will shrink the discription - verbage a little. Maybe it is just my screen, but I had to scoll accross the page to read the full description. The right side was just slightly off my screen.
But I think it looks great and reads very well.
Paul
Posted:
Jan 30 2009, 12:38 AM EST by
-
Road Trip...
Hi there,
A friend and I are going on a road trip from North Carolina to California via I-40. We will be passing through Tennessee, Alabama, Arkansas, Oklahoma, north Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and southern California. I have been charged with finding interesting stops along the way and was wondering if anyone knew of some good hunting spots on that route.
Thanks for any advice!
Keyword tags:
None
Posted:
Dec 28 2008, 7:30 AM EST by
-
National Petrified Forrest in AZ
I just uploaded some photos from my visit to the national pet wood forrest in Arizona from earlier this summer..
With one of the world's largest and most colorful concentrations of petrified wood, multi-hued badlands of the Painted Desert, historic structures, archeological sites, and displays of over 200-million-year-old fossils, this is a surprising land of scenic wonders and fascinating science.
Anyone been there?
http://www.nps.gov/pefo/
It's like a sea of wood .. pretty red and white wood..
If you have never made a trip to see this place, and you like petwood at all, this is a must visit bucket list place for everyone...
http://cash-and-treasures-wiki.travelchannel.com/album/71928/National+Petrified+Forest+in+AZ
In these photos, the crazy part is what you are looking at, every little spec of "sand" is actually wood. There are billions of pieces of little wood and hundreds of thousands of tree trunks ..
Still gives me the shivers..
Keyword tags:
None
Posted:
Dec 19 2008, 12:00 PM EST by
-
R U AWARE?
I think I would vote for the bill to pass. I know two things about government land. First I grew up in N.E. Indiana it is almost all private property. That meant I had no place I could go and explore. It was all farm land. Second, I moved to Arizona two years ago and there is a lot of land here that is still owned by the government. And I am allowed to go and explore all I want. And if I happen to go on land that is privately own here in Arizona. I could get a gun pointed at me and maybe even shot. It sound as if they want to just preserver some of nature beautiful lands and save it from the sprawl and crawl of society. The sentence from the article “The federal government already owns over 650 million acres of land, much of which is experiencing severe maintenance backlogs or has already gone into disarray.” What it means is the land is returning or has returned to what nature intended it to be like.
Tom (AZrhound)
Keyword tags:
None
Posted:
Dec 19 2008, 12:21 PM EST by
-
PHOTO FINISH
aubreyreynolds9@gmai those are some dandy pic's. I really like that Arizona Pet wood,,,,WOW what color.What is the story on that humongus crystal speciman? Did it come from USA? And that Novacuralit (sp) that had spectacular color as well.
Andy
Posted:
May 13 2008, 9:08 AM EDT by
-
CANADIAN Mineral & Rock Forum website
"Hey Dan, I have a neighbor who raises sheep. He cuts my back 4 acres of alfalfa for them, and I get lots of composted sheep manure for my garden in return. Works great for both of us. I just bought a new John Deer lawn tractor that makes short work of the lawn.
Don" Wow that would be super!
I wish I had a lawn. Here in Arizona, they have no lawns.
Keyword tags:
None
Posted:
Jul 8 2009, 4:11 PM EDT by
-
Help! Geology programs in peril
Yes I am aware of the trend and it is a shame. It is part of a trend to move industry over seas. I was a mining engineer for a number of years. Mines have been closed all across our nation. Not because there is no longer any ore but because labor is cheaper overseas and laws are more relaxed concerning safe mining practices and environmental laws. Arizona is seeing the end of copper mining. Missouri and Oklahoma is loosing the lead and zinc industry. The great Masabi Range of Minnesota is becoming a memory. The universities are responding to supply and demand - sad to say. No mines - why train geologist. I had to work overseas to stay in the mining industry - so did Bob. The trend effects not only mining but most of America's industries, steel, automobiles, electronic, clothing, petroleum. America is a debtor nation that produces very little but imports vast amounts of foreign goods. No wonder unemployment is climbing.
Keyword tags:
None
Posted:
Apr 10 2009, 7:09 PM EDT by
-
Rubies
Thanks, I will check them out next time I am down in that area.
I am an entrepreneur looking for ways to put the start-up capital
together to put a new type of Alternative Energy based Motor
Company together. I have designed a new type of drive train
power plant that will run without gasoline or fuel and I am wanting
to have it built and patented for a variety of uses in several different
industries besides the Auto Industry alone. But banks and lenders
haven't been very cooperative because I have found that they all
leverage their quarterly earnings by investing in the petroleum
industry in one form or another. This is why Alternative Energy
based companies have been slow to enter the open markets
with their product lines.
I am thinking about going on an eploritory tour of all these places
featured on Cash and Treasure and other similar locations to see
just how much net worth in Treasure I can assemble over a 5 or
10 year period. Selling off a portion to live on during that time.
Especially gold prospecting in Arizona and Nevada.
How much could a guy find if he did it full time and made
a living at it for a while as a drifter or Greyhound bus patron
traveling to these different locations to try his luck?
It sounds like an interesting adventure, and potentially
a lucrative one at that. I am thinking about doing it.
Reply to thread:
Rubies
(11 replies)
Posted:
Dec 28 2007, 5:54 AM EST by
-
Washington Rockhounding
Peck rocking here is in the fall, winter and spring. Early summer is OK in the morning. But the summer heat will sap the strength out of the most hardy hound. The woods have underbrush, little nasty gritters called chiggers, poison ivy and other nasties that make July, August, and early September a no go. The 90s with 70% relative humidity is not my kind of fun. Leave the activities to less strenuous activities like fishing or golf. A cool mountain stream with trout or brownies is great in the summer. I am like Dan I would rather swing a pick in the snow than work a claim in the heat of summer. .I have prospected Arizona around Tuscon and winter is great - summer is Hell.
Bill
Keyword tags:
None
Posted:
Nov 3 2008, 6:03 PM EST by
-
What's A Rockhound?
"Nice to seee you get involved.
Whether the wordis in front or behind as long as there is a definition its cool. Now I know that petrology is not the study of puppy dropping on my wifes floor,,,lol." Puppy dropping on my wifes floor. That a line for the Dummy Guide. By the way when I went on my last trip to Arizona I bought a Dummies Guide to Arizona. The places I stopped in the guide; I made sure they knew they made the Dummies Guide.
Bill
Posted:
Jun 20 2008, 8:11 PM EDT by
-
What is your A #1 best rock hunting place in the southwest?
Just read your Fire Agate prospecting book, Leon. great job! Makes me want to head to Arizona right now ... and I don't even collect agate. But did cut a fair amount of fire agate when I owned a jewelry shop. My customers, most of whom had never seen fire agate, loved it. We set it with gold and diamonds; atruly under-appreciated stone.
Bob
-
ONE DAY IN WYOMING! HELP!
"Paul - I will most definitely post my pictures! I will try to keep a detailed diary/photo-diary of the day out so others can easily follow what I did or learn from what I learn
Dan - where are you now that you miss Wyoming? (generally speaking) And after reading your websites describing your discoveries I was wondering if the Grizzly deposit is better or the Palmer. You recommended Palmer so I assume it must be due to ease of access, distance, quality of deposit or other parameters. Grizzly sounds "bigger" although both finds are incredible!
Cheers to you btw! I would love to have experienced what it must have felt like to make such an amazing discovery (along with the long list of others you have unearthed - sorry couldnt resist the awful pun there).
Robyn" I'm lost in Arizona. Long story, but I left Wyoming after we got a director at the Survey who was a real storm trooper. So I decided it was just as good as any time to have a mid-life crisis. I left the Survey in 2007 to run exploration for an Australian diamond company. Then ended up in way-to-hot Gilbert Arizona. I miss the snow and wind of Wyoming,
Grizzly Creek was a neat discovery. Based on geology I predicted this occurrence in my gemstones book of 2000. After I found it, I wanted to go back with a jackhammer and helicopter to get out some of the larger gems - those larger than 1 million carats (some probably up to 5 million carats). The property is very difficult to get to and requires a good 4-wheel drive and access through a private ranch. I'll take you there some day. There are two other iolite deposits in the region that are relatively unexplored - one at Sherman Mountain further south and not easy to access and another to the north.
Keyword tags:
None
Posted:
Jul 9 2009, 7:30 PM EDT by
-
GREAT 1872 Diamond Hoax
I was just looking at the information on the Navajo field in Arizona & was reminded of the great diamond hoax. For those of you who are not familiar with this - it is a wonderful story.
In 1872, an outcrop in NW Colorado, was 'salted' with rough diamonds & other gems. The event left its imprint in the form of geographic place names throughout much of the West. The hoax scamed former Civil War generals, a U.S. Senator & two presidential candidates & was promoted following discovery of diamonds in South Africa, when the primary source rock for diamond was still considered to be sandstone.
The site of the hoax is a sandstone outcrop, 2 miles south of the WY border in what is now known as Diamond Field Draw in Moffat County, CO. The outcrop was salted with 80,000 carats of rubies & pyrope garnet & a large number of diamonds.
The two principals of the scam, Phillip Arnold & John Slack, took $12,000 of uncut gems to San Francisco for appraisal. The stones where valued at $100,000. The same stones were later appraised at Tiffany's of New York at $150,000. The Laramie Daily Independent stated $250,000,000 in diamonds were on the ground. The San Francisco Chronicle reported, "... the value of the property was far beyond that of any mining property ever discovered on the coast, not excepting the famous Comstock lode."
$200,000 was paid as an advance towards the final purchasing price of $650,000 for the diamond fields. Some of the cash was used to purchase 10 lbs of rough diamonds & other gems in London & nearly 50 lbs of "spinel, rubies, sapphires, and garnet" from Indians at Fort Defiance, AZ.
The first time I visited this site, we found the old sieve tailings from the 40th Parallel Survey. I panned 4 diamonds, 17 rubies & 24 pyrope garnets left behind from the hoax.
Posted:
Apr 4 2009, 11:33 AM EDT by
|
|
