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They are south of Nipton Rd

Here link to Map
http://www.nps.gov/moja/planyourvisit/u ... JAmap1.pdf

The USGS has new Digital Maps you can download free , the regular topos are free downloads also. This link takes you to the site http://nationalmap.gov/digital_map/index.html Then click on Download Maps on the left tool bar. The "Digital Map - Beta" is the first step toward a new generatio...

I received this photo from Ron Mears, a DesertUSA reader. Looks like a Diamondback. It was taken in the Hueco Mountains, near El Paso, Texas. Camera is a Canon 5D

Jim

You never know what you will run into in the desert.





Find out how they got there
http://www.desertusa.com/borrego/bs-art.html

crystalline gold? This was sold to me as crystalline gold, I am going to guess that it is not, based on the pictures above. It weighs about 4 oz and is 3 inches wide. http://www.desertusa.com/mb3-photos/gold_2094.jpg Here is a close up of the left side http://www.desertusa.com/mb3-photos/gold2_2095....

Here is a picture of the lunch counter.


This is a link to a story about it http://www.desertusa.com/mag09/feb09/kelso-depot.html

and here is the link to a Video http://www.desertusa.com/video_pages/mojave-np.html

Of all the legends about lost and found and lost again treasures in the Southwest, there is none more mystifying than the enduring tale of a large sailing vessel which lies, full of riches, somewhere in the restless sands of California’s Salton Sea basin, toward the southern end of the Mojave Desert...

The Lost Arch placer diggings said to be located about 40 miles south of Goffs and 25 miles north of Rice, in or near the north end of the Turtle mountains, in eastern San Bernardino county, California, is another of the many mystery mines of the southwest. The new-found diggings proved to be very r...

This is the story on that guy and I will post more about this in the future I spent every weekend in the desert for 7 years checking out this story, and found many interesting things I will post in the future here is how it all started. http://www.desertusa.com/magdec97/gold/pegmap_l.jpg One sunny d...