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I hadn't heard of the Mohave River, only the Mohave Mountains. In any sense, the area you described is along the narrows of the Colorado River, though Larry Sallee of Havasu regularly taught metal detecting and drywashing skills just NE of Havasu in the Mohave Mountains.
There have been a number of nuggets found NE of Golden Shores, AZ, especially after floods, according to Roman Malach, once a Mohave County Supervisor. I would suspect the area trends from warm springs towards Golden Shores- not exactly a place to be during the summer. Silver Creek is a big wash that trends from Oatman, NW to Bullhead, and not towards Topock. there are placer fields all up and down the wash, though the gold may not be found where one looks for it. I guess someone could look for placer east of Searchlight, but the area is part of the Lake Mead/Lake Mojave NP, just in case you also wanted a 'scenic tour' of how law enforcement inside of a NP/NM works, should you get stopped. BTW: perhaps working at night or early morning, a visit to the road construction sites in and around Searchlight, could be rewarding for nuggets or relics with a metal detector, as the hill opposite the Quartette Mill is being ripped and hauled off, for the new highway widening project though town. It's also a little cooler than the rest of the desert during a heat wave, if 6 degrees variants count as 'cooler'. |