The Oatman/San Francisco Mining District’s historic gold production of 2.2 million ounces of gold since the 1880s makes this area Arizona’s greatest primary gold producing district.

Polymetallic skarn deposits are an interesting class of deposits that can contain a number of different types of metals.

Every time we prospected here we found gold, sometimes some really coarse flakes, but no large nuggets (yet).

Bodie, California, in its heyday, was once rumored to be one of the roughest and most lawless towns in the American West.

Gold on the bedrock is a good rule of thumb, but not one that is 100 percent effective. There are plenty of exceptions. So, how does a prospector recognize those exceptions?

...these nuggets have not traveled far from the lode because the golden wire lattices would have been torn apart or flattened during weathering of rock and deposition by violent stream action.