Mine with the Iron Door The Legend

This area has been a secret known only to a few for many years. I got lucky and ran into one of the prospectors as he was coming out one day a few years back. I thought he was going to shoot me but we hit it off and he told me he was living off the gold he panned, that's right panned, out of the hidden canyon. So I spent the next few weekends trying to trail the mans tracks to no avail. So after a few attempts I went there and discovered a rope still hanging down the side of the canyon after a long hard hike. I climbed the rope to see what was up there and found equipment for a small mining operation. On the way down the rope I had never repelled with out gear so hands only and almost burned my fingers off doing it!

I never found where he was getting the gold from until a few years later. I'll continue the story I have to go now.



Backwoodsbob said:
That's would be something to see. Can you haul some out and pan it later?what about an air drop . I was thinking like a small parts washer that reuse the water. For panning or to sluice. I know it sounds crazy, but.
Bob

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A few years later I went in there again with a dry washer looking for the spot he had been getting the gold from. I ran into another party of three. A man his x-wife and his son. They had a camp set up in the middle of the ditch (Wash) and were dry washing for gold! We talked and he knew the other man I had met earlier so he showed me his gold fines. I couldn't even see it in the vial!
I went down a ways away from the small group and began flipping boulders and processing with my Dry Washer (Keene 140). I worked it for about an hour and did a clean out. I was surprised to see quite a lot of gold in the pan!
So being a friendly neighbor I went over and showed the amount I had found and boy their faces lit up like the sun!

We said our good byes and parted ways. I hiked out the way I came in which was hell on earth! I went back there for one purpose to see if I could find the easy way in they had used by back trailing their tracks (Tracker) and finding the rope used for repelling. Well I followed their tracks until they disappeared into no where! So I doubled back and wouldn't you know it they back tracked walking in their own tracks backward so anyone following wouldn't be able to find the hidden trail down to the rope! Luck was with me as I tracked backward doubling back I looked and saw an old gas can they had dropped in their haste to leave close to the trail hidden by underbrush!

I had been looking for years for the trail to the rope but could never find it as it was hidden so well and those people who were there on open territory up for grabs had never filed a claim on the property. None of them so this area is up for a claim and can be claimed. Since it was in such a remote area no one had ever filed on it. I know the ends and outs of mining claims and BS that goes with it so I didn't want to file either.


The next weekend I took my wife with me and we repelled down the canyon and went to the area I had discovered where the good gold was. Wouldn't you know if those other people had moved in on my spot and had half the canyon tore up!
 

Bill Riley said:
Here's my new Video about Janus Sun Temples and the methods of making signs from angles.

Have you ever seen a Pozo Tombstone shaped plug rock with a carved heart on the Tombstone?

Post one of those if you have.



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Holy cow Bill, That was excellent. That sun scope you made was the bomb. I understand how they did things so much better now. Man that was great. And you surely couldn't beat the price of it.Man you sure put a lot out there in the video. Thanks Again. Great Stuff.
 

I have seen one of your videos. I didn't know it was you. Cool!!!

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We moved into an area as close to our spot as we could get and started dry washing. The other family had all there gear just sitting there and no one was around. After we started mining for some more gold we heard people coming and it was them! We didn't want to start a ruckus over the fact they horned in our spot and it was an open area with many others knowing about it we were polite and greeted them warmly. As we were leaving they decided to leave at the same time. My wife was having trouble carrying her back pack as we had water and a complete dry washer with gasoline, food and emergency supplies so I carried her load the whole way back to our vehicle. Upon arriving at our car the other family was right behind us all of them except the wife. I unloaded the back pack covered in sweat so worn out from the heavy load and heat I was exhausted! All of a sudden we hear screams and a gunshot! It was the other mans wife and it sounded like she had been bitten by a Rattler! The man and his son bolted off in the direction of the gun fire and screams and I turned around to see my wife staring me down she said; "You get your arse back there and help save that women she may have to be carried out"! I said; "But, Honey, I just got here with that pack and Im done for"! All it took was one look from her and off I went running over this god forsaken trail up and down with sweat in my eyes and totally out of breath! As I was running I heard two more gunshots and more screaming. When I got there the husband was holding the Rattlesnake dead in his hand! I guess she actually stepped on it and it went for her leg but missed so this little Annie Oakley pulled out her 32 caliber pistol and shot it on the first shot! The rattler was wounded but not dead so it chased her up a tree!

What an adventure that was I had a great day to remember!
 

You did the right thing. You never know what you will find out in the field. The snakes here have been out in mid day. That time of the year. Although I like being in the woods from now until spring. Here that is. You going to file a claim on the site before they do?



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You can file a claim Bob but it's more complicated then just that. Logistics are tough there and you have three kinds of land you can file on. Federal Forest Service, State Land and BLM. All three are a pain especially State. If you file on State land you can only do a large commercial mining operation after you file for an exploration permit for five years. If it goes on into an actual claim after review you must lease the land, put it back the way it was before you mined it, and they hold an auction where you can lose the lease to others bidding after you found it! BLM is getting harder down here they have gotten crazy with all the greens taking over and Forest Service just plain won't move forward with it even if you prove it's has visible Gold! I don't want to file on it because it's so remote those others have been doing it for decades and have seen no one other than us ever come there. The first guy I ran into has never returned. He would spent two weeks in there and get enough gold for him to survive for six months or so but he had found the source we're just getting the scattered crumbs flowing down from the vein.

Backwoodsbob said:
You did the right thing. You never know what you will find out in the field. The snakes here have been out in mid day. That time of the year. Although I like being in the woods from now until spring. Here that is. You going to file a claim on the site before they do?



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I see your point there. Dealing with the red tape and all. I'm worried about the EPA with some of new tactics. Wanting to take away land with water on it or control the use of it.

On another note. You mentioned the society of Janis. Where the Knights Templar's and the jesuits part of the same society? I have seen what looks like the hooked x
On a stone that has the Jesuits name. Or what looks like it . They would have Jesuit priest overlapping each other.

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Bill,can you tell about this stone? I'm not sure if it's a griffin or dragon or something else. If turned 180% I believe I see a witch.
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thanks Bob

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The SOJ has been a round since before Jesus. BC. It's just another form of witchcraft or early magic. They would use all sorts of Pagan and Egyptian Gods in the magic they cast. I believe Janus was around before those era's.

Backwoodsbob said:
I see your point there. Dealing with the red tape and all. I'm worried about the EPA with some of new tactics. Wanting to take away land with water on it or control the use of it.

On another note. You mentioned the society of Janis. Where the Knights Templar's and the jesuits part of the same society? I have seen what looks like the hooked x
On a stone that has the Jesuits name. Or what looks like it . They would have Jesuit priest overlapping each other.

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There is some kind of magic being used. You can see the x on that stone. I hope it's God's and not to the others.

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Bob, If you can hold it your hand it's nothing more then a rock that looks like something man made or a Similacra / Natures Similar. They never bothered with tiny stones they were into Mountain Sculpting so think much larger. Usually a bed rock outcrop or large boulders that would require a few men to remove. But that's only at the end sites most were huge mountain sides or boulders it would require many horse using block and tackle. They loved mountains it was easier to mine and control water that flooded the mine's.


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Bill,can you tell about this stone? I'm not sure if it's a griffin or dragon or something else. If turned 180% I believe I see a witch.
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thanks Bob

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Zoom in on it. We don't have large stones here. You will see what I mean. I'm on the old trail

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That stone is to small and can move easy. They didn't use throw away stones or stones laying in the middle of a wash that were subject to be moved by nature. All of those stones in that wash have been recently pushed down the canyon. The water level in there can run as high as twelve feet. The only exception I know of is were they "Pin" the boulder into the bed rock with rods or carve it from the bedrock so its attached.

Backwoodsbob said:
There is some kind of magic being used. You can see the x on that stone. I hope it's God's and not to the others.

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There is no wash here I'm on top of a hill. This was under the ground. It was found when the road was cut in. It's a whole new world here. It has everything you have except for the size.

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That's why I could see what was on the walls of your pictures. I've had to study the small stones. It made it easy to see the large images of you area.

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I would be willing to say it's there also. It's in California and every where I've been able to go. Believe me I've been working on and testing a theory whenever I can.

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What society used a shield? Like the one in my avatar? What about this stone
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It's upside-down

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