Spanish gold mine?

danielisa2368

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Hi , I have been following what I think is a Spanish gold trail , I will post some pics of the trail markers and what I believe is a Spanish gold mine I uncovered at the top of the hill. I had to blast the big rock out of the way first then dig out the shaft . I haven't got that far yet as it is getting in the 100s here in Arizona.
 

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Backwoodsbob

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Very interesting, yes ,you are on a site. Are you looking for the traps that are often at those places? What are the white spots in the last picture?

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Welcome to Tnet

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Any long-time md'r or back-road enthusiast of NV, AZ , etc... will tell you that holes in the landscape, from yesteryear mining attempts, are a dime-a-dozen. Scars and holes on the landscape need-not be "Spanish". They can be mid to late 1800s, to 1920s, etc.....
 

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I was going by the stone work I see. It looks Spanish. Maybe 1800s miners had the skills to do it.

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Uhh, so what is "Spanish" about this ? Versus just ordinary rock formations? And the hole openings in your first pix: Might they just be holes from the westward-ho movement of prospector attempts that left scars all over the American SW ? I was just touring the back-countries of nevada, for instance, and we saw tailing piles, holes, etc.... all over the high deserts. Prospectors (not "Spanish" explorer era) left them all over the country sides in their attempts to test for "the next strike".
 

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??? Who puts up a sign advertising the presence of treasure?
 

Backwoodsbob

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Well Tom have you ever been to a Spanish or Jesuit it before? Because if you have you would know what to look for. From the look of her pictures it has a lot of the same type rock work

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Very nice.

Please post pictures of all the treasure when you unearth it.
 

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Well Tom have you ever been to a Spanish or Jesuit it before? Because if you have you would know what to look for....

Curious then if you've found any Spanish or Jesuit treasures (even if only singular reales) by following uncanny looking-rock clues . Because .... certainly you "know what to look for" . Right ?
 

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danielisa2368

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I went back out there today and dug out more of the tunnel until the it got to hot to dig anymore. I got about ten feet in and its looking like the tunnel goes in 2 directions . The material I am pulling out is 4 inch minus. Its not packed so that tells me the material didn't get washed into the tunnel. It would be packed and its not its loose material. The entrance to the hole was covered in caliche mixed with rock , and when I started picking at it, it crumbled and made the hole and that's when the material started pouring out. That's when I knew I had found what I was looking for, the tunnel to gold , well I hope there is gold in there . I cant see them blasting a tunnel and backfilling it then blasting the rock down on top of it for nothing . Ok back to today, the only bad part is having to climb about 400 feet up to get to the spot. About 7 feet in and 3 feet down I found a little bone that is yellowish brown , there was only one so I cant tell what kind of animal it came from as there is only one. It looks like a leg bone, kinda cool to find in a backfilled tunnel. I took a different route and seen what looks like 2 rams head to head forming a bridge from one rock to another. 20161016_141747.jpg
 

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Could be the Lost Dutchman's Mine. Have at it mate.:headbang:
 

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danielisa2368

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The side by side pics with the white dots are before I started digging and after I found the hole. Another one from today 20170603_055838.jpg
 

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Could be the Lost Dutchman's Mine. Have at it mate.:headbang:

I say that the Oak Island treasure got spirited away under night-time secrecy and put there. You can tell by the uncanny rock formations which were *surely* left there by the Jesuits or Masons (durned those moose lodge guys anyhow, eh ?)
 

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danielisa2368

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All the trails and monuments I have found are on public land , don't want to trespass lol
 

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