We are in Quartzsite, Arizona doing some gold prospecting. The area surrounding the town is all public land and full of old mines and diggings. There are pretty white quartz mounds all over the place and pieces of quartz litter the ground everywhere you look. Here I took a picture of the quartz the old timers were chiseling at and the hole they dug where the fence is. Gold likes to hang out with quartz so it was tempting to dig where you find these outcroppings. Mostly we would see lots of digging and smashed pieces of quartz but probably no gold was found or there would have been major digging.
We found a little gold this time. Not enough to take a picture but at least we didn't get skunked. The dirt finally dried out enough so we could use our drywasher but now its time to leave and move on to Yuma. We are hoping the ground there is dry enough so we can get digging.
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