Vulture Placers

Vulture Placers is a past producer of gold in Maricopa County, Arizona, in USGS's medium output class. USGS gives a discovery year of 1867. It is one of 103 historic gold producers USGS lists in Maricopa County, and number 2 when they are sorted by output class.

Facts

USGS status
Past producer
Output class
medium (USGS class)
Commodities
Gold
Discovered
1867
County
Maricopa County
State
Arizona
Land status (BLM data)
Federal land managed by the Bureau of Land Management
USGS record
10027074

Source: USGS Mineral Resources Data System (retrieved 2026-10-13). The database was last updated around 2011, positions can be approximate, and "producer" does not mean a mine is operating today. "Output class" is a code whose meaning changed over the years, so compare sites inside this data and do not read it as tonnage.

This location is mapped as federal land. Public land is not an invitation to enter old workings. Ask the managing agency about access, claims and closures.

Gold sites nearby

19 other USGS gold sites within 12 miles. The Maricopa County page lists the biggest.