The Prescott National Forest recently allowed the expiration of a 20-year mineral withdrawal on the Hassayampa River and other sites in the forest. Mining companies rapidly took advantage of the ...

Mining in the area dates back to Capt. Joseph R. Walker, namesake of the famed Walker Expedition that discovered placer gold along ... Mesa Road in the Prescott National Forest.

However, one day, heavy equipment started flowing in and a mining company popped up ... who lives on a private inholding in the Prescott National Forest. He moved there for its tranquility.

PRESCOTT — Now ... coordinator at the Tonto National Forest. “It produced about 3,500 tons of gold, silver and copper,” Maldonado said. “These past mining operations left about 20,300 ...

But this particular agave is square in the path of a proposed road to enable massive mining equipment ... a rugged area in the Prescott National Forest. Gold is extracted in riverbed "placer ...

David Paul Morris / Getty Images Millions of Americans have tried their luck at gold panning ... prospectors are welcome year-round in Prescott National Forest’s 100,000-plus acres of land ...

It has a four-season climate, thanks to its mile-high location in Prescott National Forest. The woods hold ... and the Salida Gulch trailhead and gold-panning area. Hilltop and Lynx campgrounds ...