iron door mine

We don’t often get the origin story for lost mine accounts. According to the excellent Treasures of the Santa Catalina Mountains by Robert Zucker (2014) this is “the earliest published account…. This article was the first mention, in print, of a door actually made of iron that sealed off an old...

I just happened to find a site that said they knew that the Iron Door Mine was in the Santa Catalina Mountains, Arizona. I also remembered a story told to me by an old acquaintance years ago. This person, mentioned in our article told us about quite a few different things he found in the desert...