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Historic Lost Basin/King Tut Placers
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W.E. Dunlop also found the King Tut Placers in 1931. "Here, a gravel-floored plain, from 3,000 to 4,000 feet above sea level, rises southwestward between Grapevine Wash and the base of a low northward trending ridge locally called the Lost Basin Range," according to the Arizona Bureau of Mines' publication, Gold Placers and Placering Arizona, Bulletin 168. The richer gold-bearing gravels occur within an area some eight miles long by an undetermined width and are mostly
composed of slab-shaped schist pebbles. These deposits are generally less than two feet thick and rest upon caliche-cemented gravels. The gold found at the King Tut Placers occurs partly as fine material and partly as flat, rugged nuggets that are known to range up to one-sixteenth of an ounce in weight.
"The King Tut Placers probably originated from erosion of a group of gold-bearing quartz veins in the Lost Basin Range. The ruggedness of the gold nuggets, many of which carry attached quartz, indicates a local derivation," according to the source cited above. Lode gold deposits were discovered and worked in the Lost Basin Range in 1886 and in the Gold Basin area in the 1870's.
The King Tut Mine and the Lost Basin Placers are located south of Meadview, Arizona in Mohave County.
(NationalAdventurer.com)
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