Dont tell its a secret!

[Quenton Wagstaff]

I am new at metal detecting. My son and I just bought Whites SGT and MXT. we are super excited about it all. We still have yet to buy any tools for digging lol. We are so lost when it boils down to all of the information on the web pertaining where we can hunt, like Superstition Mountains in Apache Junction, parks, Riverbanks, dry washes, private land, mining etc. we have seen some posts about Terry Solomon and some veterans posts comments about Rich Hill and clubs but we don't even know where to start with anything like that we would like to stay close to like Superstition Mountains, Apache Junction Arizona. we live in Mesa Arizona now. not sure we could just randomly go and find a vein and follow it or a dry river or wash in follow that. Looking at websites, blm etc. it is so confusing, anyone have any information or advice is what to do and where to start? Thanks.

 

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[roadrunner]

@Quenton.
Go to Promack mining supply in AJ.
North side of the road,East of the Walmart that is between Meridian and ironwood.
It is a blue building that used to be a napa store,
They have a club call superstition mountain treasure hunters. $25 a year.
It is a start, I am going to sign up but have heard mixed reviews from people.

 

[Quenton Wagstaff]

I am new at metal detecting. My son and I just bought Whites SGT and MXT. we are super excited about it all. We still have yet to buy any tools for digging lol. We are so lost when it boils down to all of the information on the web pertaining where we can hunt, like Superstition Mountains in Apache Junction, parks, Riverbanks, dry washes, private land, mining etc. we have seen some posts about Terry Solomon and some veterans posts comments about Rich Hill and clubs but we don't even know where to start with anything like that we would like to stay close to like Superstition Mountains, Apache Junction Arizona. we live in Mesa Arizona now. not sure we could just randomly go and find a vein and follow it or a dry river or wash in follow that. Looking at websites, blm etc. it is so confusing, anyone have any information or advice is what to do and where to start? Thanks.

 

[releventchair]

I have no proof of where J.W. acquired his ore but consider it proof and truth as having been acquired and from a source called the LDM since.
Someone looking for that source is technically hunting for the LDM. If the site has been mined since, still the interest of Waltz's ore remains. Thus hunters looking for more than gold on faith,at least some. Others would rather find gold. All would like the answer of Waltz's source mine, or no mine or someone elses mine but that source is what's being searched for in so many different ways because it's believed to have existed not from legend, but tangible at one time ,gold. Unless it's documented he had no ore?

 

[sgtfda]

I am new at metal detecting. My son and I just bought Whites SGT and MXT. we are super excited about it all. We still have yet to buy any tools for digging lol. We are so lost when it boils down to all of the information on the web pertaining where we can hunt, like Superstition Mountains in Apache Junction, parks, Riverbanks, dry washes, private land, mining etc. we have seen some posts about Terry Solomon and some veterans posts comments about Rich Hill and clubs but we don't even know where to start with anything like that we would like to stay close to like Superstition Mountains, Apache Junction Arizona. we live in Mesa Arizona now. not sure we could just randomly go and find a vein and follow it or a dry river or wash in follow that. Looking at websites, blm etc. it is so confusing, anyone have any information or advice is what to do and where to start? Thanks.

Join the Gold Prospectors Association of Phoenix. You will find what your looking for.

 

[sgtfda]

Speaking of finding what your looking for. You won't find it on GE or sitting on your butt at home. It's out there. You may not find the LDM but you will find something!

 

[Quenton Wagstaff]

Thanks.

 

[sgtfda]

well this symbol is what put me in the area of box canyon.. guess its not a secret anymore. something else was with it but i am not going to say what. doubt if its related to the LDM even though the triangle resembles the triangle on the lower trail map, but i think it was a good find.some kinda symbol with a directional arrow.. good luck finding it unless ya walk in the right crack.its my first find of somethin and cant figure out the rest of the puzzle..but the pieces are there.so whos the guru on what i am going to call a treasure symbol... and triangulation with imaginary points?oh and before I get any grief, my treasure symbol remark is just wishful thinking on my part. I figure ya might as well wish for the best.<img src="http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=1025912"/>

Good luck with it horse. Hope you hit the big one

 

[rjgould]

 

[markmar]

You mean tell me I put in an hour on Photoshop to get that picture to look good and I only get one comment on it? That's just not right

Nice pic

 

[somehiker]

There's nothing wrong with the photo Horse. It might be well worth the trip in to check it out.
In fact, Springfield posted a photo of an old coded document about a month or so back, which featured a number of similar symbols, as well as a couple of others some of us are familiar with from other materials we have seen. That same symbol, which I have some reason to believe represents the sign of the cross (signum crucis), also appears at the top of a controversial document....also in code...and said to have been created by the Templars.

Regards:SH.

 

[ConceptualizedNetherlandr]

 

[StreamlineGold]

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correct me if im wrong, but

Unless that map is showing the top as due east your location for weavers needle is way off, its definitely not east of tortilla flat or apache lake

 

[StreamlineGold]

my bad, just double checked that, looks like the top of your map is east...makes more sense now, that location is close to the old silver mines.

 

[markmar]

my bad, just double checked that, looks like the top of your map is east...makes more sense now, that location is close to the old silver mines.

The top of the map is SE and the trail ends on the top of Music Mountain .

Oh . I told the secret !

 

[Real de Tayopa Tropical Tramp]

Oh . I told the secret !

Markmar, BLABBER MOUTH

 

[cw0909]

couldnt fig where to put it, some old files from leftover research for someone, i forget for what though
folder says JM, anyway.........
THE CONFEDERATE INVASION OF NEW MEXICO AND ARIZONA
Page 105 | eHISTORY

prob should download this an open in a better viewer


http://ehistory.osu.edu/sites/ehistory.osu.edu/files/sources/or/atlas/plate098.jpg

 

[gublube]

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it amazes me how everyone puts these maps to arial photos. i know its something to get ur hopes up but when these old maps were made they were probably just an idea of the twists and turns. maybe pretty close in some circumstances. but they had no arial photagraphy back then to draw these maps and signs out. i guess if you traveled a trail long enough you could draw a gd trail of what youve constantly walked. but seriously...how can you place a old trail map to a arial photo...this amuses me.

 

[Somero]

Maybe a secret maybe not but somebody is busy putting up these little walls for some reason

 

[Gregory E. Davis]

Good Afternoon Semero: The Rock Walls one find's around the Superstition Mountain Region where place there by the Ranchers in the Region to define the cattle ranges and grazing areas. Rocks where much cheaper that Barbed Wire. They were built by hired cowboys and Mexican Workers. Cordially, Gregory E. Davis