GOLD MINES near Colorado River, Calif, RARE report, Whipple Mtns, Mojave Desert

Description

Scarce report describes little-known Mojave Desert gold and silver mines
Shows you
where
UNTAPPED gold and silver
are still waiting to be mined in California !!!
Mines are on PUBLIC LANDS in the Whipple Mountains
near the Colorado River and Lake Havasu City, Arizona
Great info for gold seekers, history buffs, bottle collectors, photographers, rockhounds, hikers, offroaders, metal detector enthusiasts and more
T
his scarce government first-edition report pinpoints both existing gold mines and UNTAPPED DEPOSITS in the California desert near the Colorado
River and the Arizona border.
Small detail of big color map from report's rear pocket shows existing mine locations. Red shading means that there is a high probability of undiscovered gold in this area. Number 10 is the Atkinson group of mines; samples from those mines showed gold.
DON'T BE FOOLED: Many reports from this series have the same cover. Most are utterly boring snores about oil wells and gravel pits. Not the ones I sell: ALL my reports with this cover are out-of-print; hard to find, and ALWAYS about gold and silver and precious-gem mining. And this one is no exception. It's a real prize for anyone interested in the Whipple-Mountain area of Southern California.
55 mines on 87,000 acres
This report describes and maps 55 mines in this unpopulated 87,000-acre area. Most mines are silver, gold, lead, zinc and copper mines. The authors also predict
where gold and silver are waiting to be discovered. Yes, you read that sentence right. This unassuming report PREDICTS where you'll find unmined gold and silver, not just existing mines. Both existing and predicted deposits are plainly described in the text and even more plainly marked on the maps.
And if you're interested in exploring this area, now's the time to to get your maps together for the cooler fall and spring months. The Whipple Mountains are hotter than a toaster slot at least six months of the year.
Rarely seen
I have been buying and selling mining items on ebay for almost 20 years. I have only seen two other of these reports offered for sale.
I know how many were sold because I sold them. On average — even looking all over heck and back — I can only find one of these reports about every three years. Grab it now while the grabbing is good so that you don't have to wait another three years. You sure don't someone to get one of these books before you and beat you to the gold!!!!
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No guards, fences
or barking dogs
Almost all of the locations in this report are completely accessible, deserted and open to
exploring. 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. (We do not condone or suggest mine exploring; we're talking the aboveground parts of these locations.)
There are no guards, fences, barking dogs or no trespassing signs. All these mines are miles away from any town of any size and are on federal Bureau of Land Management or Forest Service lands. BLM lands are COMPLETELY open to prospecting and mineral collecting.
This first-edition report itself is in beautiful, near-fine condition, one of the best copies that I have seen. So buy it now or forever hold your peace. Once it's gone, it's gone.
We do NOT EVER remove these ebay ads before the item sells. We just lower the prices every month until it sells. "Well, I'll just wait for the lower price," says you. "Don't bother," says me.. Almost ALL of my books and reports sell at the first price drop or before it.
More than 5,000 mining
This chunk of California desert didn't just produce a handful of gold nuggets over the past 120 years. Mining operations were large enough to warrant the sale of stock certificates to investors. In fact, antique stock certificates from this region sometimes appear for sale on ebay. The Whipple Mountains (part of the Monumental and Whipple Mountains mining districts) were a busy and productive gold-and-silver mining area, producing 5,123 tons of ore from 56 mines alone.
In fact, more than 5,000 mining claims have been filed in the study area since the late 1800s. Eight lode claims were rich enough to be patented. Even at the time of this report (1981), the area still had at least 165 active claims! Ore value was 48 percent gold and 45 percent copper.
Can it get any easier than this? Just follow the numbers! Small detail of map from report shows existing mines. Numbers refer to descriptions of mines in report. Landmarks are intentionally blurred in scan to protect mine locations. Landmarks are not blurred on real map. Big map from pocket shows MUCH MORE detail than this sketch map.
The report and maps locate the major prospects and mines in and near the study area, about six miles from Parker, AZ, and 10 miles from Lake Havasu, AZ. The map of mine locations is just the thing for history buffs, bottle collectors, stock certificate collectors, photographers, geologists, hikers, offroaders, rockhounds, metal detector enthusiasts, 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 at the end of this ad for a more exact location of the study area.)
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 are not predicting potential gold and silver lodes by some crackpot method or by banging on a few rocks with a hammer. They used some of the most cutting-edge high-tech methods for locating mineral deposits: geochemical surveys, remote sensing, gravity and magnetics and geoelectric surveys.
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:
Sleepy Burro group
(also known as the Whipple Mountain mine, Braintruster mine) — Samples contained gold; "the prospect may warrant further exploration."
D & W mine
— "Vredenburgh and others (1981) reported ore at between and a ton" when gold was only going for .67 an ounce! Do the math; we're talking BIG bucks here.
New American Eagle mine
— two shafts, one reportedly 300 feet deep, also cuts and prospect pits. "Because of the length and depth of the polarizable structure and the past production, the mine warrants further exploration." So grab your pick and shovel! Hey, at least try a little panning and see if any color turns up in those tailings!
Peacock copper group
— this small copper prospect turned out to have gold content big enough that the authors said: "The property may warrant further investigation because of favorable gold content."
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 last scan in this ad. Interestingly, roads in this area are plainly marked on the Auto Club of Southern California Riverside 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?
Major access to the area — which is truly in the middle of nowhere — is from Highway 62 to the south (see map below)
The area is almost entirely unpopulated wilderness, but there are quite a few good dirt roads. Most are accessible by a vehicle with good clearance; four-wheel-drive is not needed.
San Bernardino County is in Southern California and borders Nevada and Arizona to the east. Adjacent counties are Riverside, Orange, Los Angeles, Kern and Inyo (home to Death Valley and the Sierra Nevada). Nearby counties include Mono, Fresno, Tulare, Kings, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Ventura, San Diego and Imperial.
The report:
Mineral Resources of the Whipple Mountains and Whipple Mountains Addition Wilderness Study Areas, San Bernardino, California
, Bulletin 1713-D, first edition, 1988, by Sherman P. Marsh, Gary L. Raines, Michael F. Diggles, Keith A. Howard, Robert W. Simpson and Dinald B. Hoover (USGS) and James Ridenour, Phillip R. Moyle and Spencee L. Willett (U.S. Bureau of Mines); published by Department of the Interior, US Geological Survey, United States Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 36 pages, 8.5 by 11 inches. Stapled binding, stiff paper covers, report is in near-new excellent 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.
Detail of map from book shows location of study area in relation to various landmarks, including highway 62, Parker, AZ; Parker Dam and Lake Havasu.
Payment methods and domestic shipping
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International shipping
Sorry, no international shipping on this report
.
The fine print:
Feel free to contact me if you have any questions about the item or terms of sale.
Do not
wait until you buy the report to ask questions.
Tiny detail of large color map from pocket shows areas that have high probability of gold and silver deposits.
Landmarks are intentionally blurred in scan to protect mine locations. Landmarks are not blurred on real map.
Big map from pocket shows greater detail than this sketch map
.
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Good luck and thanks for looking!
Other cities and towns
Other San Bernardino County cities and interesting sites (besides the ones previously mentioned in this ad) include: Adelanto, Alta Loma, Amboy, Apple Valley, Barstow, Barnwell, Baker, Big Bear Lake, Bloomington, Broadwell Dry Lake, Cadiz, Calico, Chino, Cima, Colton, Cucamonga, East Mojave, Essex, Etiwanda, Fontana, Forest Falls, George Air Force Base, Goffs, Grand Terrace, Havasu Landing, Helendale, Hesperia, Highland, Hinkley, Ivanpah, Joshua Tree National Monumnet, Kelso Dunes, Lake Arrowhead, Lanfair Valley, Loma Linda, Lucerne Valley, Ludlow, Mentone, Mitchell Caverns, Montclair, Morongo Valley, Mountain Pass, Mt. Baldy, Needles, Nipton, Ontario, Oro Grande, Parker Dam, Phelan, Pinon Hills, Pisgah Crater, Pomona, Rancho Cucamonga, Redlands, Rialto, Riggs, Route 66, Silver Lake, Soda Dry Lake, Upland, Twentynine Palms, Turtle Mountains, Yermo, Yucca Valley, Ward Valley, Zyzzx.
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