Wickenburg, AZ - Burro Creek

Field Collecting: Wickenburg Area

Wikieup, AZ/Nothing, AZ
Mohave County Arizona
Burro Creek Crossing Road
(purple agate, pastelite, opalite, jasper)

NOTE: Please DO NOT ask for directions to the collecting locations below! Most, if not all, of this information can be obtained from the following guide books.

"Rock Collecting near Lordsburg, New Mexico" by Dave Millis
Can be purchased at the Border Rock Shop, 980 East Motel Drive, Lordsburg, NM 88045 (505)542-3724

"Minerals, Fossils, and Fluorescents of Arizona" by Neil Bearce
Can be purchased on Amazon.com

The Burro Creek area of Mohave County Arizona is widely know among rockhounds for its great diversity of cutting material. To find this location, we had to travel northwest of Wickenburg on US93 to the town(?) of Nothing, AZ.

We all caravaned to the Nothing Rock Shop meeting place. While Bill Jaeger and a couple of other guys took off to determine if the old access road into the Burro Creek collecting area was passable or not, we all entertained ourselves exploring "Nothing". After we had waited for about an hour and a half, the scouting party came back with the bad news - WASHED OUT big time!!! Bill had even cracked one of the metal foot steps on the side of his truck on a big rock. This was indeed bad news as this washed out road would have cut off about 15 miles of bad road driving into the prime collecting areas.

Notice that we are all gathered together in a bunch in this picture.
Wonder what's going on??

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Must be something to do with ROCKS!

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The "Nothing" Rock Shop had a table of local rocks for everyone to examine.

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Roger and Bill waiting . . . . . . . .

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Vic and Ron waiting . . . . . . . .

Photograph provided by Art Mott

Art and Doris Mott waiting . . .

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The "Nothing" Rock Shop and store!
These must be their delivery trucks. . .

Photograph provided by Art Mott

BURRO CREEK

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View of the agate exposure along the hillside.

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Agate outcrop

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PURPLE AGATE (green chisel)
The above picture was taken of the small ledge on the far left portion of the outcrop.

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Agate material that I busted off of the face of this exposure.

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Bob Neuschaefer surface collecting the agate . . .

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Mary collecting "her thoughts".

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STUCK! . . .

This is why you do not go twenty miles off-road by yourself in a two wheeled drive vehicle!
[2007 update] Ben purchased a 4x4 truck to ?never? get stuck again!

[2006]

The road(?) we drove in on!

Really beautiful scenery!!!!!