Latitude: 33°16'50"N
Longitude: 114°35'35"W
Ref.: Wilson, E.D. (1961) Gold Placers and Placering in Arizona. Arizona Bureau of Mines Bull. 168 (revised 1978): 25.
Johnson, M.G. (1972), Placer gold deposits of Arizona, USGS Bull. 1355: 75-76.
Keith, Stanton B. (1978) State of Arizona Bureau of Geology and Mineral Technology, Geological Survey Branch Bull. 192, Index of Mining Properties in Yuma County, Arizona: 181 (Table 4).
Arizona Bureau of Mines file data.
MRDS database Dep. ID file #10302148, MRDS ID #M004568, MAS ID #0040120476.
A former gold placer mine/deposit area located in secs. 1&2, T.2S., R.23W.
Mineralization is spotty gold placer deposits in stream beds draining from an area containing small gold quartz veins in Mesozoic schist.
Workings include dry placer operations on a small scale, and intermittently, from as early as the 1860's into the 1940's. Possibly as much as some 323 oz. of gold were recovered containing a few oz. of silver..
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