Nevada Nugget Hunters

FMCA · Joined: 16 May 2008 Posts: 7

Question

Does anybody know what the new claims
near Ogilby that poped up in the last two years are all about!

They staked a lot of ground
what seams like a placer deposit????

The location is at the "well known" dumortierite site!

hmm

Frank

gilaoro · Joined: 05 Oct 2008 Posts: 3 Location: Morristown,AZ

Hi Frank, I just joined this forum and I just moved from Yuma,AZ to Morristown,Az but I know a good deal about Ogilby Road area. I realize this post is old but I hate to see a question go unanswered! The claims are by the Southwestern Prospectors and Miners Association Club of San diego,CA and some of the others are snowbirds. This are is covered with snowbirds during the winter season. If you know where the old "Dip stick" excavator is that is the area of of the old spark plugore mines that is also getting a lot of rockhound attention.
If you go futher east toward Jackson Gultch you will find some more claims by club members who have indivigaul, not club, claims. The snowbirds hacve claimed and over claimed each other all over the area, last winter thry had a gun pulling incident over a claim so the ranger and sheriff is watching a little closer in the winter. Al of the winter reisdents have ATV,s and claims mean nothing to them.

Goldfinger · Joined: 15 Jul 2006 Posts: 65

Max:

Never heard of it but this area sounds just like Quartzsite... hmm

Steve

gilaoro · Joined: 05 Oct 2008 Posts: 3 Location: Morristown,AZ

Steve,
The area between California S-34 and the Colorado river at Yuma is in the Cargo Mucho MTs, Jackson Gultch was the richest placer but the entire are has many shaft and open pit mines, the latest was the American Girl Mine complex, there is an old mill site and town site but nothing remains except some concrete and a graveyard and about 20,00 snowbirds in the winter. When I first got started in gold prospecting I stumbled on to a caretaking job at Jackson Gultch for Robert Sangaret a mining lawer from San Diego who had a lot of claims in the area. he was a good guy! The Mesquite Placers and open pit mine is a few miles north in the Choclate MTS and the California Pot Holes is the eastern extension.
futher N & W in the Choclates there is some good gold but most of it is a restricted Navy live fire area, There is one spot in Jackson Gultch that continully produces 1/4 OZ nuggets from a very small area, I don't claim jump and when I offered to show the spot to the current claim owner ( A Snowbird form Colo.) for detecting permission he refused me and said he would find it, the last time I heard there were still people taking nuggets from that spot!!
Max

Goldfinger · Joined: 15 Jul 2006 Posts: 65

Max:

Ogilby looks like a great place to go if you don't mind all the people. Kind of sounds like a mini-Quartzsite in a way. Have heard of all those places you mention like Potholes,Jackson Gulch,Mesquite but have never been to any of them. For some reason- I seem to have developed an aversion to California over the past few years. Very Happy

Steve