Hey Terry: I signed up for the on-line geology course you had the link to so maybe that will help. The roadside thing sounds interesting as well and I'll look into it.
Daugela: I lived in Bisbee for a bit when I first moved back out west from Georgia. It's cool and there are some real characters in that little town. The mine there takes up so much space though that I couldn't live there for the long term. I moved about 35 miles east from Bisbee and am loving it.
KK: Maybe we should start talking and perhaps figure out a get-together for sometime in the future. I've got an adopted sister that lives in S.V. It was going out to visit that introduced me to this part of AZ and so I moved here instead of back to California.
FabSpec: LOL Now you know why I moved to THIS part of AZ!!!! I know how hot it gets in Yuma in the summer. At least it's a lot cooler here at 4,600 ft elevation. We even get (dare I say it?) SNOW!!!! Something that hasn't ever been seen in Yuma to the best of my memory. Was only in the mid 80s here today and was a beautiful day for doing some panning.
BigJoe: It's that different geology that has been making me scratch my head since I decided to get back into prospecting. I know there's tons of copper in this area as well as other minerals that can and are mined. We've got a gypsum mine a couple miles down the road from us as well as the Copper Queen Mine over in Bisbee. (Three guesses what they mine there) A couple of days ago I hiked up the hill behind the house to try to get a better visual of the wash that runs through our property. Feeders, major bends etc etc etc and while I was up near the top of the hill I found an interesting rock. Jet black with tons of blue crystals embedded into it. Took a sample to see if I can come up with an I.D. on it. We also have outcroppings of Hemiphorite crystals all over the property, red lava, black lava, quartz veins and tons of calechi. Also while on the hike I could see well into Mexico as well as into New Mexico.
