Silver up in the last 24 hours by 4.25 %
I suspect more folks are cashing out their BTC in favor of precious metals, before BTC goes to $0.
Come out to Colorado. We have lost silver mines, gold mines and even a lost tungsten mine.
When I moved to the Ozarks in the early 70s I was told of a lost mine. Something along the lines that a hunter would find it rather than a fisherman (or was it the other way round?)
One can find stories in the Ozarks. That’s for sure.
,,,and One Day
We’ll Catch That
Chicken!”
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Kramer
The Lost Dutchman’s mine is waiting to be found out there in Arizona’s Superstition Mountains.
https://www.discovery.com/exploration/gold-mine-Arizona-Mountains
There were lead mines all over the Ozarks. The last one was shutdown by The Great ObamaNation’s EPA. Now we have to get our lead from Communist China.
I know where they should look.
Start in the Southeast Missouri Lead District.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southeast_Missouri_Lead_District
It contains the highest concentration of galena (lead(II) sulfide) in the world as well as significant economic quantities of silver. Galena is lead ore bound up with silver ore. Importantly, then you need to search for hot underground water.
Acanthite, room temperature silver ore, can look anywhere from amorphous to crystalline, ugly to quite attractive.
Importantly, Spain had any number of slave labor silver mines in northern Mexico, some of which had amazing, if primitive technologies. They had very little iron and steel, so made do with wood and leather, except for hand tools. Yet the amount of silver they produced made Spain very wealthy and militarily dominant in Europe for quite a while.
So at the time, if you wanted to find a profitable silver deposit, you needed a Spanish prospector.
Mexico still has a very large lead mining operation near the city of Torreon. Most of the lead used in car lead-acid batteries in North America comes from there.
I remember seeing something in my genealogical research about Stephen F. Austin’s travels (or his father) in MO in connection with lead mines.
I know where it is.
The OLD SPANISH TREASURE CAVE is still north of Gravette Arkansas.
My county. When I was researching this property, I ran across mining exploration records. They've checked the entire county using a grid system to bore holes and see what came up. If there was anything of value in the ground, Doe Run Mining Co would be mining it. They've mined a little bit of everything in MO, iron ore, gold, silver, copper, lead. Lead is the only thing there's plenty of still. East MO is considered The Lead Belt. We have an Interstate Battery plant down the road not too far from the Royal Oak charcoal factory.
The Lone Ranger’s silver mine, from which he cast his silver bullets, is missing too.