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An important lesson to all of us that nothing is sacred to big money.
Whoever finds the LDM or any other big bonanza will have to prepare for similar actions.
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An important lesson to all of us that nothing is sacred to big money.
Whoever finds the LDM or any other big bonanza will have to prepare for similar actions.
Thats a big assumption. I don't disagree with you but what proof do you have? The SWA was enlarged several times and finally defined in 1984. If you really believe this, it is logical to assume that you can trace back those who defined the area and learn their reasons for doing so. That would be meat-on-the-bone and who knows where it will take you.
Mike posted a good article a few pages back about the government doing a fly over the center of the Superstition Mountains in 1969 using a mercury vapor analyzer and results were outstanding if you were the government. Not so good if you are a private citizen. They (Gov.) decided it would best for the government to close off the wilderness to prospectors. That way they could protect the findings of 1969. Mercury vapors are very hard to hide. Nature never lies.
Wow. You look good for your age.
V
Wow - aren't you the one who constantly asks for verifiable facts from everyone? So could you explain exactly what verifiable facts you have and can provide that without question backs up that story you're calling a fact?
You do know that over the years there have more than a small handful of people who've claimed they are the REAL relatives of the Jacob Waltz of DLM fame? Maybe one of them is, but they can't all be and none of them can prove it except by word of mouth passed down through the family - not exactly what I would consider to be verifiable fact.
The reason I know this for a fact is because I have found three Spanish/Mexican Mines. One still sealed and the other two were unsealed and reworked. I knew the persons that had unsealed them. In every case there were no tailings found anywhere near the mines.
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When you have mines that you can work year round, there is no need to hide tailings because you and your workers are on site all the time. No chance for thievery (except highgrading). Mines that were in the far North of the New World that could not be worked year round needed a way to make sure for the months they were absent, nobody else could easily find their mines. Small entrances, scatter/hide/carry off the tailings. Simple logic.
AZ,
The trails are still there. Aerial InfraRed Pics are the best for finding old trails. Even if the trails are unused recently, they can be found. There are very old (but well worn) trails up Bluff Springs Mt. The trails are worn into the rock, and small pieces of hand cobbled quartz with gold specimen have been found on top, same thing on Horse Mesa.
Mike
The only real facts that are known to me are these clues. The setting sun shines on my mine, (I would have to say the mine would have to face the west).
From my mine I can see the military trail, but you can't see my mine from the military trail.
To the south I can see a pointed rock, (this has to be Weavers Needle).
The reason I know this for a fact is because I have found three Spanish/Mexican Mines. One still sealed and the other two were unsealed and reworked. I knew the persons that had unsealed them. In every case there were no tailings found anywhere near the mines.
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When you have mines that you can work year round, there is no need to hide tailings because you and your workers are on site all the time. No chance for thievery (except highgrading). Mines that were in the far North of the New World that could not be worked year round needed a way to make sure for the months they were absent, nobody else could easily find their mines. Small entrances, scatter/hide/carry off the tailings. Simple logic.
AZ,
The trails are still there. Aerial InfraRed Pics are the best for finding old trails. Even if the trails are unused recently, they can be found. There are very old (but well worn) trails up Bluff Springs Mt. The trails are worn into the rock, and small pieces of hand cobbled quartz with gold specimen have been found on top, same thing on Horse Mesa.
Mike
Bill,
Spanish/Mexican makes no difference except maybe in timeline. The Mexicans got their mining know-how from the Spanish.
No monuments can be seen in either of the pics. From this site, everything that points to mines are gunsights. So far, every mine in this canyon was unsealed, reopened, and worked out in the early 1900s. Since this is still a working site, I can't show everything, but the beginning of the trail to this canyon starts with an eye:
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MIke
Ok so first you claim that spanish mines have no tailings, because they hauled them away, you show pics, then you claim that all the mines were reopened early 1900's? Whomever reopened the mines also used a magic carpet to dispose of tailings?
Dont you think that the act of hauling away would leave a clear trail to the mines? Or did they use magic carpets? Magic eracer? Teleportation?
Do your infrared aerials show the trails?
Bill,
Spanish/Mexican makes no difference except maybe in timeline. The Mexicans got their mining know-how from the Spanish.
No monuments can be seen in either of the pics. From this site, everything that points to mines are gunsights. So far, every mine in this canyon was unsealed, reopened, and worked out in the early 1900s. Since this is still a working site, I can't show everything, but the beginning of the trail to this canyon starts with an eye
Trails going through an area aren't as obvious as a waterfall of lighter colored detritus flowing down the side of a mountain:
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The Americans that reopened the mines left a lot of tailings. Not a lot of the original mines is left. These mountains were worked pretty hard during the depression years up until about the 1950s. We have been through the tailings and the oldest stuff we found were cans and pieces of bottles dating to the early 1900s. Another item we used to date the reworked mines is the frame of a Model A that was bolted to the side of a cliff. It was either used to crush ore or haul things up and down the canyon. The engine is long gone
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Aerial infra red photography shows trails that are invisible to the naked eye. When a trail is well used, the soil and rock is compacted more than the surrounding soil and rock. It retains heat longer than uncompacted soil and rock. The trails around this set of old mines are well worn in many places. Not a struggle to find.
When it comes to scattering/hiding/carrying off tailings, you don't have to take my word for it. Do your own research like I did. Don't expect everybody to hand you everything you want (oh, and being a smartass to me will only get you DD & more D).
Mike
I am not seeing the things that you are describing. Not saying it's not there just can't see it.
So, if I understand you, his Majesties Witches are Jesuit Freemasons and they hid the mines with ritual ceremony.
Then they made the maps?
I don't know what dd or more d is?
I know how to research. Had you read the article that I posted you would have read about some of them hauling it all back to mexico. The tailings were hauled back to be crushed to extract the goodies. Tailings are crushed ore. Basically the powder that is left after the goodies are extracted. I've already corrected your improper use of mining terminology. Must I continually correct you?
One thing about the treasure symbol system, It was not wildly understood or used by just anyone before the 1900's. If they date to 1847 or earlier, then only a few people in the area would have had the understanding to make them. So, if they predate 1900, then chances are that the artist was someone or caved under the direction of someone very important. A Jesuit, a Peralta. Point being that the suspects are extremely limited.
After 1900, the door opens and it could be anyone with a creative flair, imagination, and a little lesson in history. DeGrazia? Perhaps, Tumlinson? Could be. Halseth? Only if it's an aerial overlay. The list is endless because the system was available in print.
The only real way to wrap things up is to have the stones professionally and independently dated. That was once done by a professional archeology group, again by Polzer with disappointing results (for some). It needs to be done again.
I am not so sure about his Majesties Witch. Seems like he would have been a target for the church, just by the name alone. Was this actually a title? It is a fascinating idea but where is the proof?
Another example of the government over reaching. Some person or person's had better find this mine before some foreign mining company does. I think this is why they put the wilderness on the protected list, they know what's in there.