Gold and ghosts can be found at Kentucky Camp
The Picture Rocks Senior Club visited a piece of Arizona mining history on a recent winter outing. Kentucky Camp in the Santa Rita Mountains was the headquarters for the Santa Rita Water & Mining Company, an attempt to get the land to give up its gold with placer mining. That process, successful in California, uses water cannons to break up desert hillsides so gold can be washed out and recovered in sluices, a sort of industrial-sized gold panning.
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