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Field CollectingFinch mine Hayden AZ
26th Feb 2018 06:59 UTCVma Buck
I found the mine on the maps through this site. Can you just go there and dig around the tailings?
26th Feb 2018 14:11 UTCPaul Brandes 🌟 Manager
Some very nice (albeit small) wulfenites have come from this locality as evidenced by the Mindat page for Finch Mine. I have also heard of small vanadinite crystals from this locality as well.
And as a side note: watch out for the "barking spiders" that occasionally show up; I hear they can be pretty obnoxious to deal with..... ;-)
26th Feb 2018 15:10 UTCChester S. Lemanski, Jr.
26th Feb 2018 15:28 UTCVma Buck
26th Feb 2018 22:24 UTCReiner Mielke Expert
26th Feb 2018 22:39 UTCKevin Conroy Manager
27th Feb 2018 12:24 UTCChris Rayburn
27th Feb 2018 16:58 UTCDave Owen
1st Mar 2018 04:31 UTCVma Buck
While I was at his shop I did get a specimen from Finch mine. It is not the stuff that has that chalcedony all over it like a sugar coating but it is nice and my first piece of Wulfenite from the state I was raised in so I like it that much better. I also asked him if he had any kind of specimen from the Verde Valley - I grew up in Cottonwood AZ near Sedona - and he had some Glauberite from the Camp Verde area. So that was cool. I had never heard of Glauberite but now I have some.
Epic country out there and the mining presence is fairly awesome. If you have not been to this part of the country I suggest the trip. You will not be disappointed...
Finch Mine Wulfenite:
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Camp Verde Glauberite:
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The Gila County:
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Hayden AZ:
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1st Mar 2018 19:20 UTCDave Barnard
2nd Mar 2018 03:33 UTCVma Buck
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