Kathy and I enjoyed the desert near Kingman Arizona.  There were a lot of nice looking rocks, the  sky was blue and the air was dry!  We did some panning, metal detecting and scouting for valuable minerals.  The most we found were a few flakes, but that is how gold is located.  We located some very heavy lovely green colored rocks near Wikieup.   The green is copper.  Most of the copper mines in the area have some silver and gold along with the copper.