RARE report, Yuma, Picacho, Imperial County Calif., untapped gold for the taking

Description

Scarce 1st edition has little-known gold & silver mines, near Yuma, AZ
Area around California's Picacho Peak — near the
Colorado River — still has gold for the taking
Much of this area is accessible by vehicle and completely deserted: No guards, no fences, no barking dogs, no trespassing signs, no people !!
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his scarce government first-edition report pinpoints both existing gold mines and untouched deposits in a section of California desert near Yuma, Arizona, and the Colorado River.
Small detail of big separate color map shows existing mine locations. Red shading means that there is a high probability of undiscovered gold in this area. Number 27 is the Wallace-Spencer mine; samples from this mine showed gold.
Described and mapped are 37 mines and prospects in this scenic 39,000-acre area in California near Picacho Peak. Most mines are gold, silver and copper mines. The authors also predict where gold and silver deposits wait for the taking. Both existing and predicted deposits are plainly described in the text and even more plainly marked on the maps.
Don't be fooled
by similar covers
There are a lot of geology reports out there with similar covers. DON'T BE FOOLED: Most reports in this series with a similar cover are complete SNORES — about gravel pits,
oil wells and diatomite for swimming pool filters. Very few are about gold and silver mining.
ALL my reports with this style cover are out-of-print first editions.
They are about precious minerals and gems. Most other reports with this style cover that you see are NOT out of print.
So buy it now or forever hold your peace. Once it's gone, it's gone.
These newer USGS reports — all with the same cover but completely different contents — represent some of the BEST and MOST ACCURATE info on some of the LEAST-known gold deposits in California. Prospectors and collectors who pass these reports over — simply because they are newer — are making a HUGE mistake. Many of these USGS reports are rarer than reports 100 years old. Very few of these were printed.
832 mining claims active
This chunk of California desert has a long history of gold and silver mining. California's earliest gold production (1779–1781) was from placers just south of the study areas. Lode gold deposits at the Picacho mine and the Cargo Muchacho district are about five and 10 miles south, respectively. These two areas were worked in the late 1800s.
The area is far from inactive even now. As of 1983–'84, 832 active claims were either in the study area or adjacent to it. Ten tons of ore shipped from claims near the wilderness area's north boundary in 1968–'69. The ore contained 0.07 ounces per ton of gold and 7.58 ounces per ton of silver.
Detail of map from book shows location of study area in relation to various landmarks, including Yuma, Arizona; Fort Yuma Indian Reservation, Cargo Muchacho Mountains, the border with Mexico, Colorado River, Clyde, Cactus, Ogilby, Andrade, Black Mountain, Quartz Peak, Indian Pass, Peter Kane Mountain, Julian Wash and the California–Arizona border.
The report and maps locate the major prospects and mines in and near the study area, about 25 miles from Yuma, Arizona, in easternmost Imperial County, California (see map, below left). The map of mine locations is just the thing for history buffs, bottle collectors, stock certificate collectors, photographers, geologists, hikers, metal-detector users, offroaders,
rockhounds, prospectors — just about anyone interested in exploring or learning about old mine sites in this historic area. (See the "where is it" section and the map for a more exact location of the study area.)
No fences and
no guards
Much of this area is accessible and completely deserted. You can go anywhere you want at these sites and pretty much do whatever you want, when you want, as long as it's legal. There are no guards, fences, barking dogs or no trespassing signs. Much of this area is miles away from any town of any size and is on federal Bureau of Land Management or National Forest Service lands and is open to prospecting and mineral collecting.
Still gold in them hills!
More importantly, this report predicts that there is a moderate-to-high probability that large parts of the area STILL contain untapped and undiscovered lodes of gold and silver! And this report plainly maps where those areas of high probability are (see maps throughout this ad).
The authors didn't predict potentia by just banging on a few rocks. They used some of the most cutting-edge high-tech methods for locating mineral deposits: geochemical surveys, lithogeochemical studies, remote sensing, and Lansat data correlation. Not to worry, though. The report isn't indecipherable geo-babble. The easy-to-use maps show areas where gold and silver are likely to occur. However, because this is a book about mining
and
geology, it does contain technical details about geology.
Mines and prospects covered include the:
Burslem prospect
— A chip sample collected across three feet of quartz-rich dike contained 0.10 silver.
Singer Mucho Labor prospect
— A 0.5-foot-thick quartz vein strikes north, containing 0.40 ounce/ton silver and 0.04 ounce/ton gold.
Dumortierite occurrence
— Boulders and cobbles of gem-quality dumortierite appear in the washes. Dumortierite is a hard, opaque gemstone, usually a dusty denim blue, though rarely violet or pink (Violite). It is sometimes called "Blue Desert Lapis." It is rapidly gaining popularity.
Wallace-Spencer mine
— produced 10 tons of ore in 1968–1969; sample of copper carbonate contained 31 percent copper and 0.15 ounce/ton gold. Copper carbonate minerals are in the Winterhaven formation.
Zimmer prospect
— Quartz lenses copper carbonate-stained schist. A composite sample across three lenses contained 0.0099 ounce/ton of gold.
Other prospects and mines
, big and small, famous and forgotten, promising and worthless.
To see just how much real estate this report covers, see the scan above. Interestingly, roads in this area are plainly marked on the Auto Club of Southern California Imperial County road map, so that road map can be used to correlate exact mileages to mines and other geologic features on the maps from this book.
Where is it?
The area is in Imperial County in easternmost California. Major access to the area is from Highway S34 to the west (see map above) The area is entirely unpopulated desert wilderness, some of it roadless. But, hey, you didn't expect to find gold in downtown Palm Springs, did you?
Nearest population centers are Blythe and Palo Verde to the north and Yuma, Arizona, to the south. Beautiful Glamis, sand toy capitol of the world, is about 25 air miles away. Other nearby landmarks include the Fort Yuma Indian Reservation, Coles Corner, Bard, Ross Corner, Winterhaven, Gold Rock Trading Post,
Yuma Proving Grounds, Palo Verde Mountains, Cibola National Wildlife Refuge and Midway Well.
Imperial County is located in the southeast corner of California, sharing a border with Arizona to the east and Mexico to the south. Adjacent California counties are Riverside and San Diego.
The report:
Mineral Resources of the Indian Pass and Picacho Peak Wilderness Study Areas, Imperial County California,
Bulletin 1711-A, first edition, 1987, by David B. Smith, Byron R. Berger, Richard M. Tosdal, David R. Sherrod, Gary L. Raines, Andrew Griscom and Maryann G. Helferty (USGS) and Clayton M. Rumsey and Arel B. McMahan (U.S. Bureau of Mines); published by Department of the Interior, U. S. Geological Survey, United States Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 21 pages, 8.5 by 11 inches. Stapled binding, stiff paper covers, report is in near-new excellent condition. Big 18-by-25-inch map in rear pocket is also in near-fine condition.
As always, I am
extremely
conservative about rating book condition and very detailed in listing any potential flaw, no matter how slight. You get what you pay for. If you want a trashed book — filled with scribbled notes, dog-eared pages and underlined passages that the seller just "somehow forgot" to tell you about in his ad — then look elsewhere on ebay.
Tiny detail of large color map from pocket shows areas in red that have high probability of gold deposits.
Big map from pocket shows greater detail than this sketch map
.
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Nearby counties
Nearby counties include Los Angeles, Orange, San Bernardino, Inyo, Kern and Ventura.
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Imperial County contains the largest body of water in California (Salton Sea) and technically contains the lowest point in North America, but it's now underwater, under the Salton Sea, so the title of lowest spot now belongs to Badwater in Death Valley. Cities and towns in Imperial County include: Bard, Imperial, Bombay Beach, Niland, Brawley, Ocotillo, Calexico, beautiful Glamis, Palo Verde, Calipatria, Plaster City, El Centro, Salton City, Felicity, Seeley, Heber, Westmorland, Holtville and Winterhaven.
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