Where to find gold in Arizona; including the geology of Arizona placer gold and nuggets. 

Great timing. I just joined the Quartzsite Metal Detecting Club this week. Spent yesterday scoping out the area around Middle Camp looking for a promising spot on the club claims. I'm a novice, but thanks to guys like you, Jeff Williams and Dan Hurd I'm learning, there are others too but too many to mention.

Hi Chris As I remember you hauled several pounds of the good stuff out of the Flandrau in Tucson. I'm not sure if I ever thanked you for your help !! Soo Thanks John B.

Fantastic education Chris ! I`ll have to try prospecting in Arizona some day ⭐⭐ ⭐

I just came across your channel this morning. I have watched a few and I have no doubt I will continue. Thank you very much 😊.

Very much enjoyed the geology discussion. Knowledge is power when prospecting.

Another Great one very timely in my understanding of geology involved with gold and being currently in AZ I see things related to those holes in the ground I never could till recently thanks to your vids in particular. It renews my enthusiasm.

Always looking forward to your videos!!

Awesome thanks for the tips and work you’ve done for us. We do appreciate you. 👍🏻

I enjoy watching your videos. Always something new to learn. 👍

Thanks Chris, I greatly enjoyed this episode 🎉

I just stumbled across this video and have found it very informative. I am a member of the GPAA Michigan chapter and I am working on getting my membership with the LDMA. Yes I am totally new to all of this and will be getting your book as soon ass I can. Thank you and yes I am now following..

I find gold and silver ore bound up in quartz veins out here. The hard rock mines were abandoned largely during WW2 when the commercial viability of the mines dropped. Many years later with better extraction tools and techniques, these mines which were previously considered "tapped out" are soon going to be making some individuals a lot of money.

I live in Yavapai County. I've been Prospecting for many years. I haven't watched any Prospecting videos in a long time. Good information and a good video also. Thanks..... Liked and Subbed.

Chris as always love the work you do , just finished watching your video on gold placers of Arizona Loved it, my uncle and I have been going prospecting in the cave creek area in Arizona for the past 4 years no luck after your Teachings I wii do my homework identifying X-M-S and X-M-V , Chris thanks for all the Knowledge you share with the average Joe prosecutor can't wait to find our first Gold Nugget , time to do my homework , Thank you God Bless.!!!

If I lived there I would sure be trying. I love the outdoors, rock hounding, metal detecting, and the whole nine yards.

Usually I skip ahead about two or three minutes to find the real start point of videos. However, haha, this guy Chris hits the ground running so to speak. Informative video right out the gate, no wasting our time bragging. Keep it up Mr Chris!

Thank Chris, very informative. Great job again. msc

I’ve spent many years as a gem prospector in varying states around the country, but just moved to Prescott a few weeks ago. I’m thinking I might be more productive in this state prospecting for metals, so videos like this are a huge help. Thank you for the resources.

Another great video, I may have to try the Gold Basin area I hear so much about 😉

Great presentation, a lot of very helpful information !!!

Great video. Lots of good information. I am going to be south of Phoenix visiting family in a few weeks. I hope to be able to do a little prospecting while there. I hope to find a little gold and also some copper ore. I want to try refining some copper and plan on bringing a few buckets of copper and gold bearing rock and dirt home to work over. I will check out more of your videos. Thank you for sharing. Can’t wait to see what you do next.

Thank you, I watched the whole video and shared it!!!!

Great video! I'm a newbie and it open my eyes to the options

"ONYA CHRIS" ANOTHER INTERESTING & INFORMATIVE UPLOAD.I LIKE TO WATCH YOUR UPLOADS TWO OR THREE TIMES AS IT REALLY SINKS IN TO WHAT YOUR SAYING.KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK PROFESSOR.SHANE FROM BATHURST AUSTRALIA

Just found you by accident on RU-vid and love the videos. Got a sub and now bing watching.

Awesome, informative vid. Thanks!

Havasu has nice gold but I bought land in the Meadview area and have found good gold there too. Joined the Mohave prospects and Havasu gold seekers clubs to hit the claims. You have lots of GPAA claims to hit as well around those areas.

Ya its October and we are still getting up at the butt crack of dawn and we have a ton of clubs around here too thank you for a great video

I live in South Carolina and every where that gold is found is usually quickly turned into a state park, but there are still some old closed down mines, that closed at the start of the civil war and never reopened, but the land it's own is owned by an individual and you may need permission to go on the property, if it's a game management land, then you can access it, when it's not hunting season. I recommend Sumter national forest, you can apply for a panners permit at the ranger station.

Moved from Northern CA to Southeast AZ (Cochise Co) in 2020. Found a sizable piece of pyrite recently and now I've been bit. I'd love to retire early and prospect full-time, but at today's prices would need for find nearly 4 lbs annually to replace my income. The wife and Ive been talking about splitting our time between two states - presently she lives in CA and I AZ; we're considering 1 May - 1 Nov in AK and the other half (Winter) in AZ. I could prospect in both! Thanks for your content!

Thank you so much for some arizona content. 🙏 🤙👏👍

thank you i loved this video im planning a trip down there now i know what to look for in host rock

I work the Ellsworth district around Salome looks like I should spread out great information Chris thanks .

Thanks again 😊

hey Chris,. I have found an incredible deposit for placer . 3-6 grams per ton. some great gold

Hi Chris. Thanks for sharing another great informative video ! I have that book too. Good resource indeed. I'm surprised that most of the placer gold in the state is associated with metamorphic rock. So are my claims ! Very interesting. 🤔 Definitely going to take closer look at that while prospecting. There's so many great places to prospect throughout the state. Perhaps another favorable attraction to AZ, is less regulatory concerns ?

You remind me of my awesome neighbor...like your brother lives right next to me haha.. as always, great video, great information.

Thanks again

thank you

Hi Chris. I love your videos and book! I met you a few years ago at a GPAA event in PHX. I'm an Army guy at Fort Huachuca and Greaterville is my normal hunting grounds. I've read all the material I can get on the area but if you have any pointers, I'd be grateful to hear them. Thank you. Keith

We just got to our camp out spot for a minute outside of Congress Arizona. There's a couple of mines near us but haven't checked them out yet.

Just found your site. I worked for Asarco for 26 years in the computer dept. Our copper refinery is in Amarillo Texas. The refining was electrolytic in the tank house. Stater sheet pure copper, anode placed in sulphuric acid. Cathode dissolves and forms anode of copper in about 2 weeks. Well the impurities called slimes sink to the bottom. Well what's in slimes ? Gold and silver depending on the assay of the ore. Can't tell the huge profits the company made as a byproduct of copper refining. Unfortunately live in NJ. As far as I can determine no hold on NJ. Watch all the reality gold shows. 78 years young, too old to try to head to Alaska, lol. Ok thanks for the very informative videos.

Hi chris really enjoyed the vid i thouvbt since you work with icmj id let you know an old fteind that i used to mine siver with in south , south nm very close to the border gave me a cmj from 1967 still got it later in the late 80sand90s i got a subscrip still have a bunch of those, very informative cant remember the yr but one of them had a really neat Story about gold in bolivia pretty cool gettin ready to go hit some of those hot spots in az,again thank you for the excellent vid!

I live in a cooler village in south AZ. I built a chicken coop, I built my house steps. I only did outside work in the shade or for 2hrs. Anything more than that is a serious sun burn. That was with sun screen.

I can't find the link to the maps. I have 2 copies of your book. Love it. Thank you. I bought the Placer Deposit books for AZ and Nevada. Maps are always missing. Even on line, one can download the books but not the maps. Thank you

Hello I just recently moved to AZ. I have been watching your channel and subscribed to you for a while. I am in the south Eastern part of the state. I have some rocks and minerals I would like to share the pictures of to you. Thank you for the great information

Good morning Chris. I seen a video that you have on Topographic maps. You said to look for dimples on the sides of mountains. But you drew it. And I was wondering if there was a way to show us on a Topo map what it actually looks like? A drawing is one thing. But to actually see what it really looks like would help me out a lot. Thanks for your videos and have a great day today.

Enjoyed your video very interesting....Thomas Knox. Trenton georgia.

Great info so thanks for that. But how'd Yavapai county get missed?

We get tons of rain here in AZ we pan all the time and sluice.. it's awesome.

I just watched your video on magma and what minerals you might find i found it quite interesting now I found about 18 different veins of magma that come out of the mountain side and through a small wash of rock not sand there is a large area where someone bedrock is exposed and you can chip it away in large pieces like slabes of flag stone there is also a lot of quartz laying all over the ground amongst other stuff how hard is it to get a permit to dig some up to it tested to see what it contains like I said it comes out of the side of the mountain through the wash and back in to the mountain on the other side of the wash the veins range about a foot and a half wide on some the smallest around 10 inches wide in the bottom of the wash coming out of the cracks where it must have pushed itself out it is about 1and a half feet to 2feet tall the wash isn't that wide ror the most part where these veins started and I stopped going was about100 feet there could have been more I'm assuming there was I was with my grandson and he got bored very fast so we didn't go on I was wondering what your thoughts were on the subject and what I might need to do so I don't get into trouble with the government or anything thanks I'm hoping to go back to this video and watch a couple others if I sent you a picture of this one rock I found do you think you could tell me what it is I believe you might have mentioned it in your video on magma and what minerals might be in it thanks agin I find your videos very insightful and I love watching them

Who knew there's au in az! Wow folks pay attention to Chris Ralph :)

Thanks for sharing Chris, My Daughter and I just got into the hobby of MDing last year, but summer came quick here in AZ, lol. I just picked up the Nokta Legend last week and looking to take it out east of the valley, I live in the Queen Creek area and looking into places like Superior, Queen Valley, Globe, or Florence. Any spots you recommend? I know ppl dont want to give away their honey holes, lol. Thank you sir.

Chris is the ONLY RU-vid creator I know who actually takes the time to reply to every comment. Even if it's just an acknowledgment that someone took the time to make a comment, he does it. It speaks very highly of the respect he has for his audience. I'm sure the day will come where he'll get hundreds a day per video and that'll be impossible, but I see him being the kind of guy (and he was when I met him at the Minelab dealer conference) that would stay up the night to do it. PS: Buy his book, I bought it when it first came out years ago and it's the bible for prospecting, a GREAT resource for your collection.

Chris, what would you suggest for understanding the geology of central Java, Indonesia? I have looked for geological reports but have not found any.

Hi Chris. I have been interested in prospecting pretty much all my life, but only recently have tried to find gold, last 5 yrs. I am now out in AZ, CA, and looking. Boy, this hard. And finding old mines, and seeing where they are, I am left speechless at how they even got to them and dug them out. I saw some that where literally 200 ft up a mountain. And how did they dig out solid rock? some were started, then abandoned. And why some areas weren't even started when there is a good quartz vein? I don't understand. Also, why do they try to get under the vein? If you had to pick a spot in CA, AZ, and NV for me to try and find gold, what would they be? I would love to find someone to go out with to do this. Thanks

Absoulutley im hoping to make Az my 2nd home in the winter.

The best places I've found are in the deeper water where there are large stones and bends. I've pulled lots of nuggets out. All you need is some snorkeling gear and some pics . Dig the cracks.

Arizona is a geologist dream

I live in Arizona City. I would love to look for gold here, as a hobby.

Thank you for your video...I don't know what a shist is but I'll learn. I too just joined Quartzsite Metal Detecting Club and hope to have a pocket full o gold soon. Of more interest to me are meteorites. Do you know where the strewn fields are or where can I find a map of strewn fields and would you like to show me where I might go?

Page 408 Years ago panning for gold brought rich yields from the lower Gila and the Colorado river valleys, but today this part of the Basin and Range Region produces only small amounts of manganese, fluorite, and tungsten. crow = (bu-rung) ga-gak pe-ning = head-ache pan = du-lang

Where should i send my parents to look for gold? They live southwest of Tuscon just north of keystone peak.

Will a detector like a Nokta Macro detect gold or do you have to spend $1000 and buy a gold specific type? I found a big chunk of quartz that looked as though there was some gold in an inclusion (but somebody walked off with it). Since then Ive been curious about finding gold here in AZ. I found a map recently that showed thousands of little mines all around the mountains here.

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Where in Tucson you said? The map is to small to locate the place you referred.

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I find small nuggets all the time in Southern Arizona.

Where are the downloads for the ebook and the map? I don't see anything anywhere that I can click on.

Do have to only use a high doller high priced metal detector to find gold ?

Arizona is now the #1 gold producing state in the USA and now has the #1 producing gold mine in the USA. Nuggets are not what your #1 priority should be because both the State of Arizona and Nevada are not known for their nuggets although you run into some. But the fine particulate is what you should go after, 30 to 50 mesh

I have a pretty fascinating lode claim in central AZ… some nice specimen gold from stringer veins , some pretty insane stuff! Anyways have learned a good deal from your videos over the years appreciate ya Chris!

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good info thanks

I've tried a few times for fun but not much luck. It always feels like everywhere you go has been combed through by many people.

Don't tell everyone, you'll spoil it!!😢😂

Road trip ?

I need to join a group , to have like minded people to go with , the serious ones !! Not wise to go out by yourself !

I've found apache, Indians with head dress on I walk back out so they may rest in piece with gold

What happened to SALOME IN LA PAZ COUNTY ???, RICH IN GOLD......Mmmmm, Pilgrims.....

Nice videos, but i dont think you know us desert people very well. The daytime heat does not stop us, we know how to deal with it. Granted mornings are great, but afternoon heat is very tolerable for desert people.

And remember folks. Don't follow the lost Dutchmen maps or any other for that matter. Even if you find it in a secret compartment of an old trunk you might have stumbled upon. 😁

Take a liking too a viking

It friends with iron and copper

do this on Colorado

Any land for sale there🤔

Nice gold? MiAmi and globe

A mother load of info. I would only add that Arizona is 10th in the nation for violent crime, lots of property theft of tourists that gets recycled back into Mexico, lots of land fraud, mexican drug cartels, organized crime, murder and rape, like the wild west, so I would be carefully not to flaunt any expensive equipment or vehicles, or go with a team, carry a firearm, keep a low profile, don't tell people what you are doing but have a good cover story. I grew up in Alaska, supposedly ranked #1 for violent crime, but it's only because everyone there is crazy, they'd have to be to live that far north, 6 months of basically living in a cold dark cave does that to people.

Mohave County has no gold, nope, none…. That crazy Breaking Bad Bedrock guy came and took it all. 🤭

Hmmmmmm

You know Chris, i still can't figure out how BLM can forbid people from metal detecting, pan or dry wash. I can see them saying no claims but not the other three. It's still a recreation.

Ouch! I cringed when you butchered the name of my home town, Arivaca. (Although you mispronounced quite a few names, so I don't feel quite so singled out, haha) the correct way to pronounce Arivaca is AIR·i·vah·cah. Originally it was called Aribac; (ah·REE·bock) which was a Pima Indian word for "many waters" or "many springs." This is due to a shelf of shale that pushes the ground water up to the surface, compared to Tucson's 1000 ft deep wells, ours are only about 100 ft. Anyway, Padre Kino, the Spaniard, came to Aribac, and like so many other native words, he got it wrong and called it Ari-vaca, which translates to "dry cow." A far stretch from Many Waters, but the name stuck. As far as gold out here, it is literally everywhere. It's in every wash, every mountain, every field, heck, we even have a street in the townsite called Placer Street, named accordingly! However, despite the gold being everywhere, the problem is it's all flour gold. You would be very lucky to even find a small nugget. But, if you have patience, eventually you'll find something of worth. So there you go! A brief history of Arivaca. Please, pronounce it correctly from here on out though! Thank you! (AIR·i·vah·cah)

X marks the spot of course! Think the opposite

I’m not a fan of commercial rape mining.

The 1st 5 minutes and ZERO useful information

Largest turquoise deposit in the US is in kingman

Dot at the top might be jacobs lake-there’s been some copper and maybe light gold mineralization found in limestone/sedimentary rocks I believe-also lees ferry along CO river has gold but supposedly very very fine hard to recover and just unprofitable in any way

Where to find gold in Arizona.... My guess would be in Arizona

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