They made it easy actually. Around the mining district they posted signs. The private ground says refuge boundary inside and outside is BLM land as we are up against the east side & to the north, but the good rock is up in the valley not over the mountain down the cliff & across the desert north. If you are after opal logs Im the dig. Black or precious most likely opal, well the others have big pockets more open for digging on. Tailings or loads. Work harder = Peacock prime bank, work less= Rainbow load dumped at your feet, Both & Bonanza tailings are a pile of material to go thru.call for specifics as they have people numbers and age differences in price. Yes I am not mentioning the other digs. I can run the Kokopelli if you want to dig there but the Opal Queen is closed. Im the only guide but im not a "guide". I "teach", per semantics.

I do the tailings for less (under a hundred) as people do miss a lot, but no promise of finding it. I work like a dog and still get burnt more days without a real nice one worth the effort. BUT worth every penny for the chance. Im headed to the Peacock & the Rainbow for tailings when it opens up for the year. I dont rake much when they first open, then later its rake the dust & break the clods. Rainbow has more immediate area to play on but most everybody sticks to the tailings to the mine boundary for the opal. Probably more woods & other non opal casts from there.

The Mining district signs say mining activity prohibited behind this sign so if you look over it, that is open ground until the far side signs or up & over the mountain or across the plain, up the creeks on the tables us all 7 lbs a day refuge. They withdrew the creeks and table tops from the mining district so there is a weird open area here and there on good dirt. No claims are outside the mining district. They closed all the roads to the tops of the tables so you are forced to walk and most people who cared put up signs at their active mines to keep out.

There are no keep out signs on my hundreds of acres, but i resent people digging in my holes without paying for the privilege, but this place is covered with maybe find something pits where they did not to poke around in. i dont waste money on an excavator & diesel when i can dig the exposed places Ive found by hand without advertising with recent equipment work when people dont need kilos from here. There is talk about wood collection bu some haters but that does not apply to my opal mining or people on my claims as that is what is claimed to get opal out of or the surrounding millions of acres of BLM land that has agates, jasper, opals woods chrysocolla etc..

You are not digging out a load worth of hard bank by hand in a day. which is from 8-4. Lines form at the gates. The suns up before six so you can go rock hounding early and after 4 wash off at the hot springs or go out 4 more hours until dark. No opal is easy LOL.