Panning in AZ. What do you think of this wash? What to look for.

[roadrunner]

Take a look at the rock and see if this is worth any more research.
The crevice in the pic is after I dug it out about 8-12 inches,then hit the bedrock again.
Took my sample home and found no gold at all.
Some very little black sands. Use a Garrett 14 inch pan.
This area has copper,silver, and gold mixed. Primarily copper mines.

You can see all the rocks in the wash. Would it be better to hit this with my metal detector, since every rock could hold up gold before it gets to where i was.
The part where the crevice was at, is after the part where it is flat, with all the rocks.

 

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[roadrunner]

Went out again with my wife to the first place, the first pictures.
Found a new gulley that has been made in the last 6 years or so.
Plus, the other pics are of a piece of bedrock I believe that was exposed after a massive flood and down pour.
The first gulley was also not here 6 years ago, and this piece of bed rock (think its bedrock), was now exposed.
The brown cravk in the big piece of bedrock is very hard like clay or caliche. I tried to break off a piece with my box cutter, and it chipped the clay.
You can also see at one part it is sticking up like a fin.


Here is what it says for this area.
.This area is composed of Precambrian schist and granite unconformable overlain by younger Precambrian and Paleozoic sedimentary rocks and by Tertiary volcanic rocks. Dikes, irregular bodies, and stocks of granitoid rocks and rhyolite of Cretaceous and Tertiary ages have intruded the Paleozoic and older rocks. Large areas are covered by sedimentary rocks of Cenozoic age.

I may post this in the prospecting for gold sub forum, but does this mean this area is basically not good for gold.
It seams to me that it is not a good area.

 

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[DavidBAz]

Research Books!
Go to the Arizona Room on the second floor of the Burton Barr Central Library;
located on Central Avenue just south of McDowell Road.
Bring lots of change.
Reference books only, however you may use the copy machine inside the room.
TWO areas with similar Dewey Decimal coding, one is found in the racks, the
other on the right hand wall.
The librarian who monitors the room can show you.
Also, Bookfinder.com is a great site for used books.
BookFinder.com: Search for New & Used Books, Textbooks, Out-of-Print and Rare Books
Good Luck!