Spanish Gold Mines in the Sandia Mountains

[russau]

Yep that was a interesting video! I liked it !

 

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[cyzak]

Yep that was a interesting video! I liked it !

Thank you Sir I will post some more interesting things on this thread I have collected thru out the years.

 

[sdcfia]

Now that’s an interesting video, thank you Cyzak. I’m looking forward to hearing more. 👍

And thanks for the encouragement. I don’t give up easily, just figured there was no interest. Seems only UFOs and whiskey talk around these parts.

By all means, carry on. 👍

Plenty of interest here Puff, but very little to chew on vis-a-vis answering the title of this thread. Expand your search area, particularly to the nearby Ortiz and San Pedro Mtns, and you'll do better.

Yes, zak, that was an interesting video for sure. Thanks for posting it. I'm also looking forward to what you might post on info in the state of NM, southern part in particular. You may wish to start a new thread since this one deals with the Sandia range specifically.

For thers, tree carvings can become controversial if looking for Spanish mines. As the video recommends, the first thing you might consider doing is to bore the tree to establish its true age. If it's not old enough to support your treasure speculations, then maybe the carvings are being misdated or misread. This alone could save you time in the long run.

That said, you can find good tree carvings in mineralized country, but they might have innocent explanations. Here's a pinon (a long-lived tree, which is a good choice) with some old enigmatic carvings on it. It's a bearing tree (BT) carved in 1948 by a Mineral Surveyor on the Knave claim (K, No. 2141), already being bark-healed and covered on the edges.

Same ideas work for carved rocks, which are much more difficult to interpret because there is no reliable method to determine the age of the carvings. Here's one. No, it's not a 1569 Spanish marker, it's corner 2 of the Deep Down lode, mining claim No. 1569, established in 1914 (chalked because of carving erosion). Carved rocks also have many other uses besides mining monuments.

 

[GirlWithWolf]

Here we see trees that date back to the time of the Spanish you can not believe how many times it has been said that tree can not go back that far in time. I will show trees with carvings on them that do go back to that period of time and yes they are still alive.

I love the speculation surrounding these medallions. As far as I know it is still unknown who put them there. Some have been dated back into the 1920s and one from the late 1950s, so did one person do this for 30 years?

Another strange mystery to me happened after I happened to watch a video on the history of fonts then this story came up next in my feed. There is something suspicious about the font, I sense it but I can’t figure out why.

 

[Puff the Tragic Wagon]

I love the speculation surrounding these medallions. As far as I know it is still unknown who put them there. Some have been dated back into the 1920s and one from the late 1950s, so did one person do this for 30 years?

Another strange mystery to me happened after I happened to watch a video on the history of fonts then this story came up next in my feed. There is something suspicious about the font, I sense it but I can’t figure out why.

I believe our friend Cyzak posted the video to demonstrate the fact there are trees old enough in the Sandias to have been used by the Spanish for marking a trail or site. He can correct me if I’m wrong.

The medallions themselves and who made them are a whole different subject, but I like the way you think. You have an eye for detail. A young detective in the making perhaps? 👍

I also found it interesting they used an event in time to date and name the tree, yet chose to number them as well? Interesting, but a subject better left to a thread of its own lest we lose sight of the subject.

So the first video shows there actually is gold to be found on the West side of the Sandias. And Cyzak’s video shows there are trees in the Sandias old enough to have been used by the Spanish for marking. I’m anxious to see what more Cyzak is going to share regarding that subject.

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[cyzak]

Sandia is Spanish for watermelon when the Spanish came into that country they believe they named it for the Native Americans growing a gourd that looked like a watermelon called a buffalo gourd. They saw the well established Pueblos the Natives lived in the Spanish were after gold that's about all they cared about but the Sandia mountains were very sacred to the Natives there. The Spanish discovered gold in the mountains surrounding the area and were using the natives for forced labor.

 

[ISmellGold]

I suppose its possible. That seems pretty deep in the desert, without a water source doubtful any old Spanish would try and mine a site like that.
New Mexico is infamous for saying there is gold there. I think it is mostly a tourism ploy, though. Probably a little gold out there but nothing like the Sierras.
You still hear stories of people just walking along looking down and finding nuggets.