Uinta Peak
Utah lore is full of urban legends, myths & folklore. Spanish Jesuit priests established The Josephine Mine in the Uinta Mountains in 1650.
They mined rich veins of both silver and gold for a very long time prior to leaving the mine in 1680. The clerics were ready to flaunt the gleaming stuff they pulled starting from the earliest stage, they were undeniably less hesitant to impart the area of their mine to local people.
The Jesuits, following the appropriate convention since they were ministers and not outlaws, announced their mine to the Lord of Spain. Records composed by the Spanish Jesuits demonstrate an expected worth of the silver and gold, while providing a rough area location — two streams and a mountain top.
The Jesuits were most likely not being purposefully obscure. As a portion of the main Europeans to the locale, they found that spots didn't have names. For sure, there were presumably local American spot names, yet the streams needed legitimate signage and, as we will find in a second, the mining clerics and the native individuals were not precisely feeling hunky-dory.
The local Ute individuals, troubled that outsiders had attacked their property and took their valuable metals - they were at odds the ministers. At the point when strains heightened, the Jesuits left Utah.
In any case, as per the reports they obediently sent back to Spain, they couldn't convey every one of the gold and silver objects they gathered. They left it in a vault which they concealed inside a mystery chamber in the Josephine Mine where, probably, it actually sits today.
Treasure hunters have spent a lot of time trying to find the Lost Josephine Mine. The general consensus is that the two rivers and a mountain peak they mentioned refer to the Weber River, the Provo River, and Hoyt Peak. That’s not an X-marks-the-spot, but it’s been the starting point for many treasure hunting expeditions over the years.
A local man named Gary Holt claimed he located the Lost Josephine Mine in 2013, but not the treasure vault. As proof, Holt presented samples of what he called “goldcite” to the media. Holt stated that the goldcite was just as valuable as gold and he estimated that he mined about $30 million worth of goldcite from this old mine. Whether to sell goldcite as gold ore, or to encourage folks with a possible gem-quality find, goldcite twern't gold.
Actually, goldcite isn't gold. — it's a kind of calcite. The legend of the Lost Josephine Mine expresses that gold and silver — concurrently mined by the catholic priests — was put in a vault inside the mine. What Holt said he found … is considerably different from gold!
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