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Posted on 05/17/2021 7:13:29 PM PDT by nickcarraway
If I pay an advance fee, can I share in the windfall?
There was a blue-skinned congressman not that long ago.
Take enough colloidal silver and you turn blue.
The Bon Terre lead mine with its 400 ft deep pools is now used as a kind of waterpark for divers.
The lost silver mine is not in Missouri, it is on the Buffalo River within a mile of Rush, AR. It is not lost. It is registered to Fred Durst.
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The OLD SPANISH TREASURE CAVE is still north of Gravette Arkansas.
NO silver around here but I have plenty of clay if you want to make pottery.
It depends. How much did you have in mind?
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.
“Importantly, Spain had any number of slave labor silver mines in northern Mexico,..”
That was the Montana Senate candidate Stan Jones.
The Lone Ranger’s silver mine, from which he cast his silver bullets, is missing too.
I doubt there was too much of a direct connection, because advances in mining technology seemed to have transcended the Dark Ages because of war and mercantilism.
Even before the masterpiece De re metallica (1566) was compiled and written, there was a vast amount of post-Roman innovation within, much of which was known to Spain. (N.B.: the first good English translation was done by none other than the soon to be President of the United States, Herbert Hoover.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_re_metallica
I might also mention that a mining historian I knew was amazed that in one of their mountains, the Spaniards had built a very large, square, downward *diagonal* shaft, solely for tailings from the mine, much higher up. He said had it been horizontal you could have driven a modern train through it.
The silver miners were also known for their innovations. One such mine was pestered by banditos after their monthly silver production was stolen. Their response was to create enormous man sized silver balls that could only be carried by being rolled, tugged by a very large mule team.
When the banditos showed up, they just abandoned the silver ball, as there was nothing the banditos could do with it. Then they just waited until the frustrated banditos left.
One advantage of using oxen on the Oregon Trail over horses, is that oxen were relatively theft-proof. Although quite strong hey don’t move all that fast. If the Indians tried to steal an ox at night, they’d still be in sight when the sun came up. q
I’ll stick with the silver, thx.
Clay doesn’t have intrinsic worth (too common).
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