I put together a group trip for our local GPAA chapter with a local gold guide to prospect and detect some claims around the Stanton/Rich Hill area of Arizona. A dozen of us from Texas caravanned to the town of Wickenburg where we stayed at the Best Western as well as other local hotels or campgrounds for a week of detecting/prospecting in the area of Rich Hill. We were armed with metal detectors aplenty as well as a few Gold Cubes and other mini-highbanker recirculators. The majority of folks broke out their detectors and after a brief run through of the claim boundaries as well as other questions regarding their particular detectors they were off nugget hunting. I have several detectors and loaned out a couple to some of the members before setting off to dig dirt in the wash down the hill. I had previously went on a detecting hunt with the same guide with some other guys that I had met in Nome at Cripple River during December. No one had found any nuggets that trip with their detectors but I did score a little nugget with my Gold Cube as well as other flakes so I decided to concentrate my efforts on digging dirt in the wash. We prospected and detected for 5 days. The weather was outstanding that week. It had rained for three days the week before we arrived so the ground was pretty moist. I decided to wet classify all my material to ensure better recovery due to the gold sticking in the wet clay to the rocks. I classified down to 1/4", not the desired size for running through the cube but you use what you got right? I was in a good hole seeing that my test pans all showed some color. I ran my cube the whole week and came up with some nice cleanups. Sadly, no nuggets were found with the detectors. Lots of other metal objects though including an old hand steel drill bit. All in all everyone had a great time got some fresh air and sunshine and excellent comraderie! Can't wait to do it again!