It turns out that during world war II, the US government ordered all non-essential mines (i.e., gold mines) to close and focus all efforts on the war. After the war, many of these commercial gold mines that were producing gold at a price of $35.50 per ounce when closed during the war, never reopened because many did not come back from the war, lots of the closed mines and mills fell into disrepair, many flooded, and after the war, our country focused on infrastructure, rather than gold.
So, imagine you found one of these old mines in Arizona. Today's gold price (2/23/2022), according to the blogspot "Searching for Gold" is $1,908 per ounce, or nearly 54 times higher than it was when during World War II. So, nearly every L-208 mine likely is commercial at todays price!
These and other mines are described, in a new book available on Amazon entitled, "Gold in Arizona". And there are many other gold anomalies described in the book, including those associated with detachment faults. So, the book provides information on dozens of detachment faults and prospects in these unusual types of faults that run from the northwestern part of the state to the southeastern part of the state.
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Hard to believe, but Arizona has produced much more than 500,000,000 ounces of silver and 16,000,000 ounces of gold along with all of its copper, zinc, lead and turquoise. So, in this book, many of the old mining districts are described with many of the mines. And, there are many deposits that have been overlooked, and many that have only been partially prospected.
