HOW TO FIND GOLD

How to find GOLD in YOUR AREA
How to find gold? First check the The Gold Miners Book to see where gold has been found before - over 6,000 references to articles and reports on placer gold prospecting, gold panning and gold mining, including gold rushes.



How to find GOLD in ARIZONA

As an example, here is a list of articles on how to find gold in Arizona, including Arizona gold prospecting, nugget hunting, drywashers, gold rush history and industrial placer gold mining. 

Allen, Milton Arthur (1922). Arizona gold placers. Arizona Bureau of Mines BOM Bulletin #118, 24 pages.
Allen, Milton Arthur (1923). History and present status of Arizona's gold placers: Arizona Mining Journal, volume 7, #2, pages 5-7, 40 and #3, pages 6, 7, and 25.
Anon (1895). Dry Placer Machines. Australian Mining Standard – 5th October 1895.
Describes the method of mining dry placers in arid parts of Arizona. Dry panning is used on a small scale. On a larger scale, a machine used a set of screens configured so that an air blast from a fan blasts light material away.
Anon (1933). Arizona Gold Placers and Placering. Arizona Bureau of Mines Bulletin, volume 135, pages 76-77.
Anon (1961). Gold Placers and Placering in Arizona: Arizona Bureau of Mines BOM, The University of Arizona B 168.
Anon (1992). Stream-sediment and panned-concentrate geochemical surveys for gold in Precambrian rock, western Grand Canyon, Arizona. United States Geological Survey USGS, 50 pages.
Bauer, Carolyn (1989). Ghost Towns of Arizona: Remnants of the Mining Days. Arizona Traveler Guidebooks (American Traveler Series). Renaissance House Publishers, Arizona, 48 pages.
Beard, R. (1987). Treating Gold Ores by Amalgamation. Arizona Department of Mines and Mineral Resources. Circular #27.
Butler, G.M. (1937). Arizona Gold Placers and Placering. Arizona Bureau of Mines Bulletin, volume 142, page 76.
Coggin, H. Mason (1995). Jig Recovery Systems. Arizona Department of Mines and Mineral Resources, Circular #52.
Cox, L.J.,?? , Geology of the Gold Placers in the Greaterville District, Arizona.
Dee, Lawrence (2006). The Lynx Creek Placers, Arizona. International California Mining Journal ICMJ, issue January 2006.
Fansett, George Richard (1917). Sampling and the estimation of gold in a placer deposit. Arizona State Bureau of Mines BOM, Bulletin.
Gholson, Chris (2001). Loaming for Gold with a Metal Detector. [Arizona] Gold Prospector Magazine, issue May/June 2001.
Gilbert, F.C. (1932). Design of Sluices for Gold Placer Mining. Engineering Journal (Arizona), volume 16, #8, page 4
Girand, James B. (1932). Centrifugal Separator for Recovery of Placer Gold. Mining Journal (Phoenix, Arizona) volume 16, pages 3-4.
Features of Girand’s centrifugal device, awarded a U.S patent in 1935 (#2,004,939), resembling a cement mixer/tumbler. Material is fed to rotating barrel of double conical shape, largest diameter at centre, speed 200 rpm; by regulating speed and amount of water fed to mass, centrifugal force is utilized to increase effective differences in specific gravities of gold or minerals; and of lighter material to be discarded; low operating cost and high recovery are claimed.
Hammons, Lee (1980). Arizona gold map: known occurrences of gold lode and placer deposits. Paradise Valley Township, Arizona : Many Feathers Southwest Books & Maps.
Heineman, Robert E.S. (1931). An Arizona gold nugget of unusual size. American Mineralogist, volume 16, pages 267-269.
Heylmun, Edgar B. (1994). Santa Catalina Placers, Arizona. International California Mining Journal ICMJ, issue June 1994.
Heylmun, Edgar B. (1995). The Plomosa Placers, Arizona. International California Mining Journal ICMJ, issue September 1995.
Heylmun, Edgar B. (1997). Greaterville Placers, Arizona. International California Mining Journal ICMJ, issue May 1997.
Heylmun, Edgar B. (1997). Big Bug Placers, Arizona. International California Mining Journal ICMJ, issue January 1997.
Heylmun, Edgar B. (1998). Oro Blanco Mining District, Arizona. International California Mining Journal ICMJ, issue May 1998.
Heylmun, Edgar B. (1999). Gold at Ragged Top, Arizona. International California Mining Journal ICMJ, issue April 1999.
Heylmun, Edgar B. (2000). Mohave Mountain Placers, Arizona. International California Mining Journal ICMJ, issue January 2000.
Heylmun, Edgar B. (2002). Placer Gold in Arizona. International California Mining Journal ICMJ, issue July 2002.
Heylmun, Edgar B. (2003). Precious Metals in the Patagonia Mountains. [Arizona] International California Mining Journal ICMJ, issue August 2003.
Hill, J.M. (1910). Notes on the placer deposits of Greaterville, Arizona. United States Geological Survey USGS Bulletin #430, pages 11-22.
Johnson, Maureen G. (1972). Placer Gold Deposits of Arizona. United States Geological Survey USGS Bulletin #1355, 103 pages.
Jones, E.L., Jr. (1915). Gold deposits near Quartzite, Arizona. United States Geological Survey USGS Bulletin #620, pages 45-57.
Keiser, W.G. (1916). Dry Placer Mining on a Large Scale. Mining and Engineering World – 27th May 1916.
Describes large-scale dry placer mining at Quenner-Stebbins in Arizona.
Konselman, A.S. (1933). Federal Grubstaking of Placer Mines. Mining Journal (Phoenix Ariz), volume 17, page 5.
Grubstaking experiment conducted for relief of unemployed by Yavapai County Chamber of Commerce, Prescott, Arizona: tools, food and clothing supplied on credit basis; practical placer miner instructs inexperienced; gold weighed each week. Federal aid advocated.
Lorey III, Frank C. (1999). Gold of the Weaver Mountains. [Arizona] International California Mining Journal ICMJ, issue February 1999.
Leeper, Leonard (2002). Picks & Pans: Arizona Desert Drywashing. International California Mining Journal ICMJ, issue February 2002.
Moore, R.T. (1969). Gold. In: Mineral and water resources of Arizona, Part 1, Geology and mineral resources: Committee print, Senate Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, 90th Congress, 2nd Session, pages 156-167.
McClure, Frank G. (1916). Gold placers of Arizona. University of Arizona. State Bureau of Mines BOM. Bulletin, 15 pages.
Niccolls, Angus (200X). Operating your machine (The Little Camel). Camel Mining Products, Arizona, 1 page.
Niccolls, Angus (200X). Genealogy of the Little Camel. Camel Mining Products, Arizona, 1 page.
Niccolls, Angus (200X). Understanding the Spiral Separator. Camel Mining Products, Arizona, 1 page.
Niccolls, Angus (200X). Build your own spiral panning machine. Reprinted from Gold Prospector Magazine and Popular Mining Magazine. Camel Mining Products, Arizona, 8 pages.
Nonini, L. G. (1987). Gravel resources and placer gold development potential on the Colorado River Indian Reservation, Arizona and California. United States Bureau of Mines BOM, Intermountain Field Operations Center. 95 pages.
Peterson, Jocelyn A. (1987). Mineral resource assessment of the Ajo and Lukeville quadrangles, Arizona. United States Geological Survey USGS maps + 39-pages pamphlet.
Plummer, William L. (1916). Successful Dry Placer Operations, at Plomosa, Arizona. Mining and Engineering World – 1st July 1916.
Describes an experimental dry placer plant at Plomoza.
Sharp, A.P.; and A.D. Cook (1950). Safety Practices in Churn Drilling at Morenci Branch, Phelps Dodge Corporation, Morenci, Arizona. United States Bureau of Mines BOM Information Circular #7548, 22 pages.
Theodore, Ted G.; Will N. Blair, J. Thomas Nash, E.H. McKee, J.C. Antweiler and W.L Campbell (1987) Geology and gold mineralization of the Gold Basin-Lost Basin mining districts, Mohave County, Arizona, with a section on K-Ar chronology of mineralization and igneous activity, and a section on implications of the compositions of lode and placer gold. United States Geological Survey USGS Professional Paper #1361.
Thoenen, John Roy, and E.J. Lintner (1947). Churn Drill Performance. United States Bulletin of Mines BOM #4058, 48 pages.
Titley, S.R. (1985). Gold and silver production in Arizona and its relationships to geologic setting-implications. [ABSTRACT] Geological Society of America GSA, Rocky Mountains Section Meeting, Program with Abstracts page 268.
Toole, Delos (1996). Where to Find Arizona's Placer Gold. Published by author. ASIN: B000JPIJOU
Waite, Mitchell (1993). Gold panning equipment: build your own. Mesa, Arizona: Southwest Publications, 77 pages.
Weilgus, Ronald S. (2003). Arizona's Little Known Gold Placers. Publisher: Ronald S. Wielgus, 128 pages.
Winters, Wayne (1961). How and where to pan gold. Tombstone, Arizona: Tombstone Nugget Publishing Co., 72 pages.
Wilson, Eldren D. (1927). Arizona gold placers. University of Arizona, Arizona Bureau of Mines, Bulletin #124, pages 26-28.
Wilson, Eldren D.; and J.B. Tenney (1932). Arizona Gold Placers. University of Arizona, Arizona Bureau of Mines, Min. Tech. Series, B 132.
Wilson, Eldren D. (1952). Arizona Gold Placers, Part 1 of Arizona Gold Placers and Placering. Arizona Bureau of Mines Bulletin #160, Mining Technical Series #45, pages 11-86.
Wilson, Eldren D.; and G.R. Fansett (1961). Arizona Gold Placers: Small Scale Gold Placering. Pages 11-117 in: Gold Placers and Placering in Arizona: Arizona Bureau of Mines, Bulletin #168.
Wilson, Eldren D. (1961). Gold placers and placering in Arizona. Arizona Bureau of Geology and Mineral Technology, Bulletin #168, 148 pages.
Wilt, J.C.; and S.B. Keith (1984). Metallurgy of Arizona lode gold production. [ABSTRACT] Geological Society of America GSA Abstracts with Program, volume 16, page 697.