"The Superstition Mountains of Arizona are home to one of America's most enduring legends: a lost gold mine so rich it has fueled deaths, disappearances and obsession for more than a century. The story centers on a fortune allegedly extracted from the mountains' interior, where witnesses later said the gold came not from a shallow pocket but from a massive vein. When German immigrant Jacob Waltz, remembered as the Lost Dutchman, died in Phoenix in 1891, he reportedly left behind a chest containing '48lbs of raw gold' and a trail of cryptic clues that have haunted treasure hunters ever since."
"Waltz had claimed the mine held enough gold to make '20 men millionaires,' a figure that, based on historic prices, would be worth an estimated $4.9billion today. Now, more than 130 years later, a modern treasure hunter has finally traced those clues to a precise location. Matt Polston told the Daily Mail he has spent the past decade investigating the legend, guided by a mysterious stone map etched with Latin symbols and warnings. He believes the map leads to a massive, natural, heart-shaped mountain deep in the Superstition range, and that the mine lies hidden on its downward slope."
"According to Polston, the entrance exists but was so overgrown with trees that he and two other treasure hunters walked past it without realizing. The Lost Dutchman Mine is sometimes casually referred to as 'America's El Dorado,' a nickname reflecting the scale of the rumored fortune rather than any historical connection to the South American legend. Lore says the mine's origins date back even further, to the 1840s, when the Peralta family of northern Mexico worked rich gold deposits deep in the Superstitions. The Apaches ambushed their final expedition in 1848, leaving behind a fortune that has since vanished, and leading to what became known as the Massacre Grounds."
The Superstition Mountains host a legendary lost gold mine linked to deaths, disappearances and long-standing obsession. Witnesses described the gold as coming from a massive vein rather than a shallow pocket. Jacob Waltz, the Lost Dutchman, died in Phoenix in 1891 and left a chest containing '48lbs of raw gold' and cryptic clues that have haunted treasure hunters. Waltz had claimed the mine could make '20 men millionaires,' a fortune worth about $4.9 billion today. Modern treasure hunter Matt Polston spent a decade following a mysterious stone map etched with Latin symbols and warnings and traced it to a heart-shaped mountain with an overgrown entrance. Lore attributes earlier workings to the Peralta family and an 1848 Apache ambush at the Massacre Grounds.
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