Who says legends of Spanish (Inca?) lost mines aren't real?

[Tanneyhill]

This Project started through curious circumstances way back in 1998. Dr. Keith Barron was on a field leave from a job in Venezuela and enrolled in a Spanish language school in Quito and lodged with Professor Octavio Latorre and family. Professor Latorre is a Historian, Archivist and world authority on the earliest maps of the amazon region. Professor Latorre told Dr. Barron that there had been 7 famous gold mines in the “Audiencia de Quito” (present day Ecuador) in the days of the Conquistadors, and that 5 had been relocated and two were still “lost”. The last to be relocated – Nambija – was found as recently as 1981 by a hunting party who stumbled on some open tunnels in the jungle. It had been abandoned in 1603 after an epidemic killed most of the native workers.

The discovery precipitated a “rush” into the area by artisanal miners, and within months there were 25,000 of them on the site of the Nambija mine, in 75 different operations. Though it produced 2.7 million ounces of gold on the record between 1981-2000, an unknown amount of gold was sold into the black market....

Read the 3 part series here - fascinating story about the region through various historical archives. Long reads so grab a coffee on a Sunday afternoon and enjoy!

Lost Cities Pre-History - Aurania Resources

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Lost Cities History - Aurania Resources

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Lost Cities Geology - Aurania Resources

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[Blackfoot58]

Legend, by definition, means unproven as a fact. So until the lost mines are found most people would say they aren’t real. That doesn’t mean anyone was telling falsehoods. Only that the proof is not there…. yet.

 

[Tanneyhill]

Legend, by definition, means unproven as a fact. So until the lost mines are found most people would say they aren’t real. That doesn’t mean anyone was telling falsehoods. Only that the proof is not there…. yet.

5 of the 7 were re-discovered and the latest one to have been found produced 2.7 million ounces of gold between 1981-2000.

 

[Blackfoot58]

5 of the 7 were re-discovered and the latest one to have been found produced 2.7 million ounces of gold between 1981-2000.

Soooo, are they still Legend at this point?

 

[Tanneyhill]

Soooo, are they still Legend at this point?

They were but now fact. The point being don't be so quick to dismiss legends even though some may be injected into the public domain as misdirections. Requires a lot of discernment & intense research to filter the noise to find the signal as I am now discovering. 😂