Indiana hardrock gold (really?)!!!

[aarthrj3811]

Hey Red_desert….If the map on your profile page is your correct location You need to Map Dowse the right bottom quarter of the map for buried Gold…Art

 

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[fenixdigger]

What's crazy about these "hot" rocks is, that I saw them come from Cincinnati, Louisville, Evansville, Cave-in-Rock, Memphis, Jackson, and Biloxi. I wonder if an ancient glacier had something to do with this Some of them throw a stout signal for miles.

They seem to really stand out the more power you use.

 

[Red_desert]

currious if you did anyother testing of your rock other than dowsing?

Well, I wasn't planning on it...looks like it might be better for cut and polish, is a quartz vein piece and these veins came down from Ontario, Canada. Just N of here across the Indiana/Michigan border is a metal detecting club that has joined GPAA now. They have been having outings to pan gold in local streams.

The veins were in granites and you see some granite boulders around with white quartz veins running through also. My rock is just a large chunk of quartz vein. There is really no purpose in destroying the beautiful rock.

 

[Red_desert]

What's crazy about these "hot" rocks is, that I saw them come from Cincinnati, Louisville, Evansville, Cave-in-Rock, Memphis, Jackson, and Biloxi. I wonder if an ancient glacier had something to do with this Some of them throw a stout signal for miles.

They seem to really stand out the more power you use.

People don't realize it, but in one of the northen Indiana counties, in fact just E next to my county, iron was smelted during pioneer days. The iron ore was considered to be of high quality. It came from glacier drift. Ohio has some of these gravels too.

 

[Red_desert]

Hey Red_desert….If the map on your profile page is your correct location You need to Map Dowse the right bottom quarter of the map for buried Gold…Art

I've known for years there are some gold caches around. Have done some map dowsing, my area and can pick up on some with the rods right here in my computer room.

I need to check my profile to see where that would be...several are SW of here. The Chicago crime bosses used to come out this way to avoid the heat at times. There is an old hotel used by them on Lake Wawasee SW of me. Then the Blacklegs gang had some cabins in swamps NE side of Lake Wawasee. The Blacklegs gang had their national headquarters in a county E of it. Blacklegs gang were horse thieves, counterfeiters, stage coach robbers, you know...the typical outlaw gang. Northern Indiana was home to these boys.

But, oh how I hate dealing with land or home owners. So far, don't bother because it is private land. Remeber Indiana is the state that had a court case, ended up in federal court...just over Indian arrowheads. Those treasure hunters got permission first also.

I'm allergic to poison ivy and woods and fence rows are off imits for me. I used to take dowsing trips in Indiana, before buying my first metal detector. Dowsed a state highway map. Took a trip one Saturday, a 2 hour drive S. Was looking for old stone pioneer foundations. Of course, you don't find them just anywhere in Indiana anymore. But, the one I located happened to be on state property. I dowsed the exact location on the park's trail map through the woods. As I got to the spot a clearing with the remains of a stone fireplace. Stopped at a local museun then, found out what I found is called the "7 Pillars" an old French trading post. The site is listed in United States Treasure Atlas.

I have 2 uncles, who used to be in treasure hunting...back when metal detectors were in the primitive stage. This was before I got into it, started reading treasure magazines about 1987-88. Used to be some good dowsing articles in those old treasure magazines, got me interested in dowsing. Never bought a detector until some time in the 1990s, a Garrrett GTA 1000.

When some years later, mentioning the trip to my 2 uncles to 7 Pillars (just a state park now), plus a stop at a local museum...they said the treasure isn't there. I asked my uncles what treasure? No answer, just told me how they had been down to the edge of the water with their equipment. Anyway, they got into long range locating equipment, bought another type since that one. I didn't mention dowsing and my uncles avoided the question about the treasure supposed to be there.

At the local museum I got a treasure lead from the museum owner. The Miami Indians had a special site which is partially under water, a reservoir in Miami State Rec area next to the state park hiding the 7 Pillars old Frech trading post.

That's not all the story. Talking with a Miami Indian who was a chief at the time, tribal name Medicine Bear, this began to unfold as a treasure legend never told. Medicine Bear had been a medicine man for the local Miami tribe, then a chief for a while. I was told the Miami Indians were like a middle man, trading with other tribes. By their trading, a large amount of gold was eventually obtained by the tribe.

I have found in my research since that time, Miami Indians traded silver statues, a clue to this treasure lead. According to Chief Medicine Bear, some white traders were taken to see some gold statues that looked like real life and of their Indian chiefs. The fact my research turned up silver statues for the Miami trading...I can believe now the story of gold statues made like Indian chiefs.

Medicine Bear thought the statues would probably be under water in the reservoir. But on Medicine Bears property, is a filled in cave that once Miami Indians held very sacred. The entrance is under the front porch, runs out toward the street. I asked him how he knows that because it has always been fillled in during his life time. I got the chance to dowse over the cave. First found a pipeline out from the porch. Finally picked up on the cave toward the street.

My dowsing skills weren't so good, I was just a beginner then. Couldn't convince Medicine Bear that the gold statues might be in his cave. The Miami Indians used to bring offerings at this cave site. There has been a lot of crystal geode halves found on the property.

Art, if you can find the gold statues, the cave is SW of Miami State Rec area, which is between Peru and Kokomo Indiana. The cave is NW of Kokomo, the 7 Pillars SE of Peru. If yo as far E as Logansport, that is too far for the cave. If the treasure is in the sealed sacred cave, I'll still not try to get it...unless there could be approval from the tribe first. Then the state Archies no doubt would make sure the treasure gets confiscated. I think there is no hope of keeping anything. But, then if you bought the property, what could they do? I don't plan on doing that either.

I've thought about map dowsing the cave area in GE, but never have gotten up enough nerve to do it. My dowsing skills are so much better now, than in the 1990s. I know I can do...just don't have the heart to. I think Indian treasures should belong to the Native American tribe who lost them.

 

[Red_desert]

Ok Art, now since I've checked the map in my profile....if you would draw a line from the lower right corner of map, to the location pointer. I'm not sure of the distance scale, but back during 1990s map dowsing sessions, located caches along that line. I still can get out my rods at home and pick up on them when standing at the window or in the basement in the computer room. Along this line is a historic county river preserve park. A river boat used to run up the canal to a saloon at the end. Beyond the park is a small swift stream (during spring), it is called Solomon's creek and empties into the river in the park. I think a ghost town was once there by the same name.

Solomon's creek has an old cemetery, school, church, shown on the 1800s county map. There was a cache signal in the area. a few cache signals along that line from about 4 1/2-8 3/4 miles. Lake Wawasee NE swamp Blacklegs gang cabins are also out past Solomon creek area.

 

[B1u3Dr4g0n1]

If anyone knows of any place they can go with in driving distance to NW Indiana and wants to go but doesnt have the equipment, I have a highbanker/dredge combo I can set up if there is a water source or I have a self contained highbanker if we have to pack in water and a blue bowl for clean up.....we can both work the area and split what we find....I do need proof of ok to prospect from land owner or other wise of the area.....let me know...THANKS

 

[Red_desert]

Ok, I've got some better close ups, tell me if you still think it's just rust. Put them on a dark color background. I know there is rust on the white part of the vein running through the rock. This is what I was looking at, more on the edge in the area of clear mixed with black.

 

[Red_desert]

If that isn't enough, about last July, I got an email from Jim Straight saying, he believes it is gold....based on the photos he printed out, mining consultant experience & author, etc. Also sent me the extra magazine copy of a 2 part article (wrote by someone else) from the Mining Journal on Indiana gold deposits called moraines.