The Bark Scorpion – the DEADLIEST Scorpion in the United States!
Although the Scorpions are out mostly at night, gold prospector should keep in mind that during the day they are usually in the shade, in between rocks and often occupying other animal holes or the cool entrances to abandoned mines.
In this video, we are on a private gold claim just north of the city of Yuma Arizona. Besides using some of the world’s best gold detectors, the gold prospectors are also using drywashers, gold trommels and recirculating sluices.
Gold nuggets were found with the detectors, a good-sized picker was found sluicing and lots of fine gold was found drywashing. (more…)
This is a December gold prospecting trip around Yuma Arizona.
We were searching through some tailing piles from an old mine where the miners were following gold in a quartz vein.. We were doing dry washing and some metal detecting and met up with Daniel who is looking for iron stained courts in the tailing piles to crush and hopefully extract gold from the quartz rocks. (more…)
Yuma Gold Mine This old abandoned gold mine was just outside of Yuma Arizona not far from the Colorado River. It’s obvious that the old-timers were following a quartz vein that was carrying the gold. Dry washing the mine tailings show that this was a very rich mine. Even dry Read more…
March 2020 Yuma Arizona gold prospecting trip.
Using a high tech GPS drone to save time on gold prospecting trips.
This video was made in early March around Yuma Arizona. This weekend the daytime temperatures were in the upper 70s and dropping down to about 50° in the evening. It’s really a great time to get out to the desert and prospect for gold. (more…)