Dont tell its a secret!

[Oroblanco]

Depends, I am open to suggestion. What is the offer?

Did you forget?

ConceptualizedNetherlandr wrote

Neat looking hole, all tapped out?

Did you put that in the coordinates thread yet?

Cactusjumper replied:

Concept......

Not sure it was ever tapped in.

Originally Posted by ConceptualizedNetherlandr

Then we should get somebody on that ASAP!!

Were you volunteering to be that "somebody" on that site?

 

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[ConceptualizedNetherlandr]

Depends, I am open to suggestion. What is the offer?

 

[Oroblanco]

Depends, I am open to suggestion. What is the offer?

You are the one who stated,

Then we should get somebody on that ASAP!!

I simply asked if you were going to be that somebody? Do you expect someone is going to offer to pay you, to go check out what YOU wanted checked out?

 

[ConceptualizedNetherlandr]

You are the one who stated,


I simply asked if you were going to be that somebody? Do you expect someone is going to offer to pay you, to go check out what YOU wanted checked out?

I said I was open to suggestion. So far you haven't peaked my interest

 

[Oroblanco]

I said I was open to suggestion. So far you haven't peaked my interest

I did not attempt to peak your interest; I merely posted your own statements that you wished for someone to check out the hole posted by Cactusjumper, and asked if you were volunteering for that job. I think I have my answer, which was more difficult than expected. So I take it that YOU are not willing to go check out the site of that hole, but wanted someone else to, or want someone to offer you something to do what you wanted done?

 

[ConceptualizedNetherlandr]

I am not willing to undertake it as a 'volunteer' but am willing to consider offers. How does that escape you?

Now come on, spill some good secrets

 

[Oroblanco]

I am not willing to undertake it as a 'volunteer' but am willing to consider offers. How does that escape you?

Now come on, spill some good secrets

So you expect someone to offer you something, for you to go check out what you wanted checked out. Good luck with that.

 

[gollum]

Not enough..

Well Terry,

While you seem very confident in your assertion, I think the USGS might disagree with you. Read this from their 1969 Survey:






If you want to read the entire Circular# 609, I posted a complete copy of it on the old Lost Dutchman Forums a few years ago:

Lost Dutchman Gold Mine - Arizona Superstition Mountain Wilderness - Gold Mining ? View topic - USGS Circular# 609 "Mercury in Soil Gas and Air ~~~~~"

Mike

 

[ConceptualizedNetherlandr]

So you expect someone to offer you something, for you to go check out what you wanted checked out. Good luck with that.

Some secret !

 

[sgtfda]

Mike if more people payed attention to those studies and less to the Dutchman clues they could find a little Superstition gold.

 

[gollum]

Mike if more people payed attention to those studies and less to the Dutchman clues they could find a little Superstition gold.

Frank,

I have said this since Jim Hatt and I started talking Stone Maps and LDM several years ago; I believe most of the "CLUES" that are out there, were made up by the "REAL" Local Dutch Hunters to send out of towners looking for the LDM everywhere it wasn't (Weaver's Needle, Bluff Springs Mt, Blacktop Butte, etc). Also, so many of the old monuments have been torn down and rock carvings "added to" that to try and reconstruct the route to the LDM using them would be utterly futile.

Using little known USGS Info, and basic prospecting skills I think will get people MUCH closer than following clues. ;-)

Mike

 

[Not Peralta]

sgtfda and Gollum, even if the real markers where there, that would mean they would actually have to go look . np

 

[sgtfda]

Frank,

I have said this since Jim Hatt and I started talking Stone Maps and LDM several years ago; I believe most of the "CLUES" that are out there, were made up by the "REAL" Local Dutch Hunters to send out of towners looking for the LDM everywhere it wasn't (Weaver's Needle, Bluff Springs Mt, Blacktop Butte, etc). Also, so many of the old monuments have been torn down and rock carvings "added to" that to try and reconstruct the route to the LDM using them would be utterly futile.

Using little known USGS Info, and basic prospecting skills I think will get people MUCH closer than following clues. ;-)

Mike

Mike they even did a study of the stone map heart area. It's very interesting what they suspect is there.

 

[cactusjumper]

Time to let you guys off the hook:




I added somwe lines to show the rough locations of some of the roads/trails (it's all closed to vehicles now). The infamous "D-shaped Hole" is marked with a red dot. Just take the main trail east from the parking area/trailhead on the Phon D Sutton road, follow the old road up into the main part of the old barite mine. When you get to the big cleared and scraped area with the exposed fault scarp and collapsed drifts you'll find an old dozer track running up the hillslope to the top of the ridge, where there's a road. Follow that west to the end then there's a faint trail that goes a bit farther, trending a little to the south west and heading for the edge of the somewhat flattish ridge crest. The hole is right at the change in slope at the edge of the ridgetop. Just look for the rocky outcrop and you should be able to spot it.

The picture is of an old barite prospect hole.

Good luck,

Joe Ribaudo

 

[Somero]

SSSSSSSSSSSSHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Secret location that reminds me of one of those maps.........................................that I don't have much faith in

 

[cactusjumper]

Al Morrow at the entrance to his claim in Needle Cyn.:


Photo courtesy of Tom Kollenborn

It was no secret.

Joe Ribaudo

 

[Oroblanco]

I am not willing to undertake it as a 'volunteer' but am willing to consider offers. How does that escape you?

Now come on, spill some good secrets

What do you offer in return?

 

[ConceptualizedNetherlandr]

What do you offer in return?

That would be specified in the terms of the offer, then I decide if I accept.

 

[releventchair]

That would be specified in the terms of the offer, then I decide if I accept.

Sounds like an ex of mine.

 

[Oroblanco]