AZGS releases geologic maps for the Secret Pass 7 ½' Quadrangle and the southern part of the Union Pass 7 ½' Quadrangle, Mohave County, Arizona.

Author, geologist, and mining historian David Briggs' new contributed report, ‘History of the Verde Mining District, Jerome, Arizona’, revisits the long mining history of Jerome.

Gold mining production staged to perform well in 2018 with production at the Copperstone and Moss Mines of western Arizona.