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Well, if you say one of them could be the LDM, maybe so. I won’t be looking in that area for the LDM. Interestingly enough, no one (except for several hundred people who claim to have absolutely found the LDM but can’t produce any ore from it) has been able to find the LDM where it is supposed to be, either.
Well until we saw it here, NO ONE was proposing that El Naranjal was way north in Chihuahua/Sonora border region either.
Shortfinger also wrote
Indeed, and I never stated that I believed that Tayopa was in Durango, just thought the theory was interesting enough for a discussion.
Shortfinger also wrote
I mentioned the Jesuits only in passing, because they were able to find several mines in the region (and, pretty much every region they went to, from what I can tell), but I am reasonably sure that they were never associated with El Naranjal. And, if they did happen to locate and work the claim during the early years, it would not have been called El Naranjal.
So, to sum up, we have a mineralized area, that was (historically during the correct time frame) in Durango, with orange trees, not too far from a ruined hacienda, with several other mines nearby….No shoe fitting there, that I can see. It slips on quite easily.
However, I do have to agree with you, the best way to get some answers is to start mining, and see what the ore looks like. So, if the ore is an unusual orangish hue, will you admit to the possibility?
My biggest hesitation for recommending this course of action is, no matter what happens, find it or not, El Naranjal or not, there will need to be another couple of chapters added to the Tayopa book…..which will then need to be revised…..etc, etc, etc.
More coffee?
JB
I have always allowed that it is POSSIBLE that El Naranjal, the second most famous lost mine of Mexico and most famous of Sinaloa, COULD be in Tayopa. Highly unlikely though.
Real de Tayopa wrote
Err.ah, Oro, by any chance was thr holder of Naranjo a coadjutor for the Jesuits??, Coffee for you also.
Funny, never saw any mention of any Jesuit coadjutor, priest or neophyte being involved with Naranjal.
By the way you have just altered the name there to Naranjo, "orange", which could lead down some erroneous trails. As our mutual amigo Cactusjumper Joe is fond of pointing out, history gets changed one word at a time, and sometimes just by one or two letters at a time! (Remember Atlantic & Atlantis, from the translations of Herodotus? Atlantis got erased by the translators altering the S to a C)
