Sadly the exact location of those "remote discoveries" is a guarded secret.
Best backtracking so far is de toyopa and his insistence on Jesuit presence.
Fits right into the line of my studys.
Then there's the gold mine up the road, "discovered" in recent years.
It was later found to have had older workings inside. Guessing Spanish.
Fascinating to see the markers pointing right to the mining area.
Tied all the clues together one day and checked an area near here.
Slammed.
Less than a month earlier, someone had filed a mining claim on the land.
Heavy sigh...
It was still good info. Probably Spanish. They haven't found an entrance yet.
Claim owner even had a seminar about the area.
Very interesting findings.
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About mining claims in AZ, if they don't have "Discovery", and you find something like gold or silver, you can file right over them with an assay showing the amount of gold or silver in your ore. Discovery is 100% of having a "Valid Claim" in AZ. No Discovery, then they are still looking for minerals and so can you. If they have discovery then you are trespassing on their claim and anything you find belongs to them. At least that was what was on the books back in 1982 from the B of Mines in Tucson. Either a pile of rocks 3 feet high ( a carn) with the notice in side or a 1&1/2" by 1&1/2" post 4 feet above the ground with the map of the claim attached. then they have 90 days to post the four corners and center lines. But without Discovery, they have nothing except a piece a paper they paid $5 for at the county seat. Check the laws and make sure they haven't changed. Good Luck