Wickenburg is the closest town to the gold fields with full services motels ect.
Its about twenty minutes away. Equipment your going to need most up here use dry washers I prefer a recirculating mini high banker that runs on 8 gals of water I haul in water is and water always is the most efficient way of getting gold out of the dirt and it will do it with the material  wet or dry however in a dry washer the dirt must be dry or you will loose gold right out the end a matter of fact  someone else running your tailings can get more gold than you did if you ran damp dirt if he ran your dirt after it dried .All this equipment just allows you to run more dirt  faster than if you had to pan it all .So you would run dirt for a few hours then clean out your dry washer or sluice pan out the heavies . Really all you need is a gold pan if you want to go basic all this extra stuff increases the amount of dirt you can process that is all to that respect the desert and it will take care of you I live pretty much in it the picture above is the other side of our driveway I walk in it its full of life . Next post we can get into the history of Rich hill Stanton and San Domingo wash. I will be go to get some photos and do little mining so I can post those Next post