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Hauser Geode Beds

Click on picture highlighted section to view specific area of the main Hauser Geode map.   Or you may click corresponding numbered link below.  Note #5 is another collecting area just a bit North East of the Wiley's Well and Hauser Geode turn off sign.

 

1.    Pankey's Site, Straw Beds & Hidden Saddle collecting sites

2.    Hauser 1, Hauser 2, Hauser 3, Corn Fields, Cinnamon Beds, and Potato Patch collecting areas

3.    Psilomelane (Mineral) collecting area and parking

4.    Lost Agate Beds, Main turn off from Wiley's Well Road, good flat camping areas (Avoid camping in even slightly lower flat areas during rain....... VERY slippery stuff here......even for a 4X4's)

5.    Larry's Lost Load, & Clapp Springs collecting area

Hauser History

    The Hauser Geode Beds are located south west of Blythe off of Interstate 10 and then Wiley's Well Road South.  It takes about 1 hour from Blythe to get there.  About 30 minutes on paved road and then 30 minutes on dirt road.

    Known to rock hounds for many years, the Hauser geode beds have produced some very beautiful geodes of varied types.  Some geodes are lined with amethyst crystals, others have white or black calcite crystals . A geode is a sphere shaped rock which contains a hollow cavity lined with crystals. A geode which is completely filled with small compact crystal formations such as agate or jasper is called a nodule or Thunder Egg.
    The Hauser Geode Beds were discovered in 1937 by Joel Hauser, a Blythe Native. As there were no roads in the Black Hills area, Mr. Hauser used his Model A Ford that he paid $37.50 for to explore this region.  One day while trying to drive around the Black Hills the Hauser beds was discovered.  There are several areas to find geodes in, the Hauser beds, the Straw beds and the Potato Patch, for details on exact locations see the maps.

   

Directions from Blythe

    Take Interstate 10 west to Wiley's Well Road. Go South on the Wiley Well Road (paved road but turns into a nice graded dirt road) and go past the Wiley Well camp ground. Continue South go past Coon Hollow campground, and past the Bradshaw trail. You will see a sign marked Hauser Geode Beds turn right on this dirt road. (this road is rough in spots,4 wheel drive vehicle suggested ,but a 2 wheel drive truck or high ground clearance SUV will make it).
 

 
    Continue on the more defined road. At 4.4 miles from Hauser Geode bed sign there will be a fork in the road and a sign for Ashley Flats, turn left for the Hauser beds and Potato Patch, right for the Straw beds. On the left fork at 5.4 miles you will reach another fork in the road, left will take you to the potato patch, right will take you to the Hauser Geode beds. At 6.2 miles there is another fork, left to potato patch, right to Hauser bed. For Straw beds continue on Right fork for .7mile take left on next fork, and continue about 3.4 miles to Straw bed. Look for diggings in the side of the hills, you can dig into the green ash and find geodes. Or you can walk around and pick up geodes that other miners missed or didn’t want.
 

 

 

Tools To Take With You

shovel, pick, rock hammer,  several buckets (depending on your luck), and an old heavy cloth to sit on in the hole you create.  Regular desert items as well, such as lots of water, food, first aid kit, cell phone maps etc...

 

LAT LONG Pankey
Title		 Pankey's
REF#		     Actual
Location
Label		 DEG MIN SEC DEG MIN SEC Manually Entered Data
From Pankeys Original Data
Calc. Calc.     Calc. Calc.   Man. Man. Man. Man. Man. Man. Man. Calc. Man. Calc.
DDDMM.MMMM DDDMM.MMMM     DD.DDDDDD DD.DDDDDD   D M S D M S FRAC SECONDS FRAC SECONDS
3325.8000 11454.2700 WWCAMP CAMP 33.430000 -114.904500 Good Camping / Parking 33 25 48.00 114 54 16.20 0.8000 48.00 0.2700 16.20
3322.5480 11459.2110 HAUSERPK A 33.375800 -114.986850 Hauser 1 Parking 33 22 32.88 114 59 12.66 0.5480 32.88 0.2110 12.66
3322.7883 11459.5700 HAUSERBD A 33.379806 -114.992833 Hauser 1 Dig Site 33 22 47.30 114 59 34.20   0.00   0.00
3322.9183 11459.7100 HAUSER2   33.381972 -114.995167 Hauser 2 Dig Site 33 22 55.10 114 59 42.60   0.00   0.00
3323.1300 11459.1100 CORNFLDP B 33.385500 -114.985167 Corn Field 33 23 7.80 114 59 6.60 0.1300 7.80 0.1100 6.60
3323.0817 11459.6350 HAUS-ALT   33.384694 -114.993917 Hauser 3 Dig Site 33 23 4.90 114 59 38.10   0.00   0.00
3323.3000 11458.6600 POTPCHPK C 33.388333 -114.977667 Potatoe Patch 33 23 18.00 114 58 39.60 0.3000 18.00 0.6600 39.60
3323.6700 11501.6133 STRAWBDP F 33.394500 -115.026889 Straw Bed 33 23 40.20 115 01 36.80   0.00   0.00
3323.9100 11454.5517 PSILPKG I 33.398500 -114.909194 Psilomelane 33 23 54.60 114 54 33.10   0.00   0.00
3322.1933 11436.4633 PETIRONE   33.369889 -114.607722 Perrified Ironwood 33 22 11.60 114 36 27.80   0.00   0.00
3324.9660 11451.9830 CLPSPGGD   33.416100 -114.866383 Clapp Springs Geode 33 24 57.96 114 51 58.98 0.9660 57.96 0.9830 58.98
3325.0420 11451.2490 LLL   33.417367 -114.854150 Larry's Lost Load 33 25 2.52 114 51 14.94 0.0420 2.52 0.2490 14.94
3325.7660 11454.2900 WPT119   33.429433 -114.904833 Good Camping / Parking 33 25 45.96 114 54 17.40 0.7660 45.96 0.2900 17.40
3323.6600 11502.2880 HIDSAD1 G 33.394333 -115.038133 Hidden Saddle 33 23 39.60 115 02 17.28 0.6600 39.60 0.2880 17.28
3323.7600 11502.0960 HIDSADPK G 33.396000 -115.034933 Hidden Saddle Parking 33 23 45.60 115 02 5.76 0.7600 45.60 0.0960 5.76
3324.1060 11501.9750 SITE E H 33.401767 -115.032917 Pankey's Site 33 24 6.36 115 01 58.50 0.1060 6.36 0.9750 58.50
3324.0370 11501.9200 SITE E PK H 33.400617 -115.032000 Pankey's Site Parking 33 24 2.22 115 01 55.20 0.0370 2.22 0.9200 55.20
3323.8940 11454.5640 PSILOMPK I 33.398233 -114.909400 Psilomelane 33 23 53.64 114 54 33.84 0.8940 53.64 0.5640 33.84

 

Other Pictures

Outside of a geode

Look Inside A Geode

Around The Hauser Geode Beds

Maps

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3-D Maps

 

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