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Gold Canyon is a census-designated place (CDP) and unincorporated community [4][5] in Pinal County, Arizona, United States. The community is sometimes incorrectly called Gold Camp. [6] The town name is referred to as Gold Camp on weather statements issued by the National Weather Service (as seen in citation). [7]
Superstition Mountain. Superstition Mountain (Yavapai: Wi:kchsawa, O'odham: Gakoḍk) is a prominent mountain and regional landmark located in the Phoenix metropolitan area of Arizona, immediately east of Apache Junction and north of Gold Canyon. It anchors the west end of the Superstition Mountains (within the federally designated Superstition ...
The gold from Gold Canyon came from quartz veins, toward the head of the vein, in the vicinity of where Silver City and Gold Hill now stand. As the miners worked their way up the stream, they founded the town of Johntown on a plateau. In 1857, the Johntown miners found gold in Six-Mile Canyon, which is about five miles (8 km) north of Gold Canyon.
77.25 km (48.00 mi) The Cañada del Oro ( Spanish for Canyon of Gold ), is a primary watershed channel in Oro Valley, Arizona, US. The word cañada has a tilde ( ñ) and is pronounced [kaˈɲaða] in Spanish; in English it is pronounced / kəˈnjɑːdə / kə-NYAH-də, not like the country of Canada . The Cañada del Oro originates in the ...
The miners entered a canyon with a fantastic gold deposit through 'the Little Door', as Adams referred to it. He said that the passageway was so narrow that the riders had to enter it one by one. They descended a canyon via a Z-shaped trail. At the bottom of the canyon was a spring with a low falls above it. [5]
The legend of the Lost Dutchman's Gold Mine centers around the Superstition Mountains. According to the legend, a German immigrant named Jacob Waltz discovered a mother lode of gold in the Superstition Wilderness and revealed its location on his deathbed in Phoenix in 1891 to Julia Thomas, a boarding-house owner who had taken care of him for many years.
Gold Canyon. Coordinates: 39°26′05″N 120°49′31″W. Gold Canyon is located a few miles south of Alleghany, California, on the border between Sierra and Nevada Counties. The middle fork of the Yuba River flows through the canyon. Gold mining began in Gold Canyon in the early 1850s and has continued to present day.
El Dorado Canyon (Nevada) El Dorado Canyon is a canyon in southern Clark County, Nevada famed for its rich silver and gold mines. The canyon was named in 1857 by steamboat entrepreneur Captain George Alonzo Johnson when gold and silver was discovered here. [2][3] It drains into the Colorado River at the former site of Nelson's Landing.