tertiaryjim
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- Aug 5, 2008
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Perhaps the naysayers are rite. All I can find are these stupid rocks. LOL
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rangler said:....what the truth of the matter is...your smart enough to do your own research and come to your own conclusions...
From everything I have read, it was not the miners who buried their fifth, it was officers who came and took it and cached it elsewhere.Springfield said:rangler said:....what the truth of the matter is...your smart enough to do your own research and come to your own conclusions...
The best advice you've given yet, r - I wonder if anyone will actually follow it or just take your word for things.
Another question for the rational thinkers: if the King demanded his 1/5 of the booty, do you seriously believe he would have allowed the miners to leave it buried somewhere back in the wilderness with a rock nearby that looks like a poodle if the seasons and the sun angle was just right? Answer: no, it was 'pay to play'. The King and his men didn't take your word for anything in this game - they shook you down for their share when you got back home. Try giving the IRS an IOU for your taxes - do you think things were any different then than now?
You guys can buy into r's video games if you're into fantasy, but if any of you are serious enough to check out reality, you'll discover that all these carvings you're finding were not left there by the 'Spanish'. They were created by someone else. Now go figure out who and why. Remember - use your own noodle.
heartquest said:....From everything I have read, it was not the miners who buried their fifth, it was officers who came and took it and cached it elsewhere.
When a certain theory is laid out alongside derision for others, I tend to automatically discredit the theory. I also find it hard to "use my own noodle" ....
Springfield said:rangler said:....what the truth of the matter is...your smart enough to do your own research and come to your own conclusions...
The best advice you've given yet, r - I wonder if anyone will actually follow it or just take your word for things.
If one does his own research, as I have (being in the mining business myself, beginning in the '70's), he will take note of the precious mineral deposit distributions in central and northern Mexico (Sierra Madre) and extending into the southern USA. What you will find is that, relatively speaking, there is a comparitively small amount of gold/silver to be found on the USA side. With a few exceptions (very few), the surface-minable mineral was (and still is) much more prevalent in the Sierra Madre. Take a peek at the current action in the mining exploration game and see where the old and new deposits were and are being found. Question: why go north beyond the frontier to look for harder-to-find mineral when it is so much more findable in the Mexican mountains? Answer: a very few miners exploited a handful of deposits in the now USA, but nearly all of them never saw the borderlands, let alone ventured into them. They didn't have enough resources to do it.
If you want to see Spanish mining in the USA, go find where the richest surface deposits were exploited ca 1850's to 1870's by Americans, and you may find some history there. If the 'Spanish' were 'all over the place', it seems like they would have harvested all that easy placer in California, no? They did get a little, but why go all the way to California when the pickings were so good back home? That's why the streams were full of nuggets when the '49-er's began exploiting California. Same goes for the deserts and mountains of the Southwest, but in spades. Much better diggings were to be found back home in Mexico.
Another question for the rational thinkers: if the King demanded his 1/5 of the booty, do you seriously believe he would have allowed the miners to leave it buried somewhere back in the wilderness with a rock nearby that looks like a poodle if the seasons and the sun angle was just right? Answer: no, it was 'pay to play'. The King and his men didn't take your word for anything in this game - they shook you down for their share when you got back home. Try giving the IRS an IOU for your taxes - do you think things were any different then than now?
You guys can buy into r's video games if you're into fantasy, but if any of you are serious enough to check out reality, you'll discover that all these carvings you're finding were not left there by the 'Spanish'. They were created by someone else. Now go figure out who and why. Remember - use your own noodle.
kanabite said:....does any of this resemble tailing's ?
i need a 5000.23 tasks training for a new miner , in recognizing tailing's .
i know its at least a land slide ,
but not sure how rock slides over two big terraces / ledges like that .
almost like a huge amount of mountain was carved out and thrown off .
but by god or man not sure yet .
Pala Y Pico said:Hey Kanabite, I have the same question for steve. Are this mine tailings around this hole. The first picture I have an arrow where the hole is, the scond picture is the hole itself.
Notice the reddish dirt around the hole( arrow pointing) on the first picture. And the reddish dirt in the hole itself.