Hot Rocks
Hi Friends,
While in Arizona, I have gone for some hikes in gold producing areas and done some rock sampling. I have found a number of "hot rocks" that contain iron, copper, silver, in small amounts that set off my metal detector pinpointer, such as these:
I finally got around to smashing them up to see if there was any gold in any of them as well just in case... nope, no gold.
I have some other samples from another trip so I will have to get around to grinding those up as well, but I am not super hopeful. The gold in the area I was hiking is found mostly hard rock veins but you could get lucky and find a chunk of a vein laying down the mountain from the veins - but the good gold veins are all staked with mining claims - I am not interested in getting shot trying to sneak some gold ore!
Better luck next smashing...
Brian
I live in AZ, Phoenix area. I grew up in Cali though. So many interesting rocks here. Too bad you didn't find any gold! That would have been awesome, haha. What area were you hiking in? Superstitions?
Right on, yes, maybe next time. I was in the Oatman, AZ area.
Ahh cool, I haven't spent much time in that part of AZ.
I like these rocks.