Table of Contents
Acknowledgments x
Introduction 1
Rockhounding Basics 2
How to Use This Guide 8
Rockhounding Sites in Arizona
Cochise County
1 Harris Mountain Mines 16
2 Gold Hill Chalcedony 20
3 Golden Rule Mine Quartz Crystals 23
4 Centurion Mine Garnet and Marble 27
5 Dragoon White Marble Quarries 30
6 Courtland Ghost Town 33
7 Middlemarch Pass Mines 36
8 Ash Canyon Quartz Crystals 39
9 Reef Mine Quartz Crystals 43
10 St. David Selenite 46
11 H&D Mine Fluorite 50
Coconino County
12 Obsidian Tank Obsidian 54
13 Ash Fork Flagstone 57
Gila County
14 Globe Travertine Onyx 60
15 Phillips Mine Chrysotile and Serpentine 63
16 Indian Gardens Paleo Site 66
17 AZ 260 Jasper 69
18 Payson Quartz Nodules 71
19 Diamond Point Quartz Crystals 73
20 Pine Fossils 75
21 Winkelman Quarry Fossils 77
Graham County
22 Joy Valley Fire Agate 81
23 Whitlock Mountains Volcanic Rocks 85
24 Pipeline Road Spherulites and Geodes 88
25 Black Hills Chalcedony and Fire Agate 91
26 High Noon Prospect Copper Minerals 94
Greenlee County
27 Round Mountain Chalcedony and Fire Agate 98
28 Polly Ann Mine Fluorite 102
29 Limestone Gulch Agate, Chalcedony, and Jasper 106
30 Ash Peak Quartz Crystals 109
La Paz County
31 Little Harquahala Mountains Mines 113
32 Harquahala Road Fire Agate 117
33 Little Harquahala Mountains Chalcedony 119
34 Harquahala Road Mines 122
35 Cunningham Pass Copper Minerals 125
36 Brenda Jasper 128
37 Bouse Hematite 131
38 Blackbird Mine Manganese Minerals 134
39 Quartzite Area Mines 137
40 Crystal Hill Quartz Crystals 140
Maricopa County
41 Bartlett Dam Road Granite 144
42 Horseshoe Dam Agate 147
43 Seven Springs Onyx Quarry 150
44 New River Red Jasper 153
45 Table Mountain Dark Jasper 156
46 Painted Rock Mountains 158
47 Saddle Mountain Fire Agate 161
48 Salome Highway Specular Hematite 165
49 Big Horn Mountains Fluorite and Selenite 168
50 Aguila Road Apache Tears 172
Mohave County
51 Burro Creek Campground Apache Tears 177
52 Burro Creek Pastelite, Opalite, and Agate 181
53 Black Mountains White Agate 184
54 Cuesta Fire Agate 188
55 Kingman Honey Onyx 190
56 Cerbat Mines 193
57 US 93 Camptorute Dike 196
Navajo County
58 Woodruff Petrified Wood 201
59 Joseph City Petrified Wood 204
60 Winslow Petrified Wood 207
Pima County
61 Ajo Copper Prospects 211
Pinal County
62 Picketpost Mountain Apache Tears 216
63 Bomboy Mine Chrysocolla 220
64 Superstition Mountains Banded Marble 223
65 Dudleyville Calcite and Heulandite 226
Santa Cruz County
66 J. C. Holmes Vanadinite Mine 230
67 Temporal Road Quartz Crystals 234
Yavapai County
68 Camp Verde Salt Mine 238
69 Chasm Creek Agate 242
70 Rodeo Flats Agate 244
71 Mayer Travertine Onyx 247
72 Monte Cristo Mine 250
73 Date Creek Quartz Crystals 253
74 Crookton Road Onyx 256
75 Rock Butte Fossils 260
References 263
Site Index 267
About the Author 269
