The Lost Dutchman Mine: Gold, Death, and the Superstition Mountains
About 4 min readJacob Waltz died in Phoenix in 1891, leaving a trunk of rich gold ore and a set of deathbed directions centred on Weaver’s Needle. Generations of searchers have followed them into the Superstition Mountains — dozens never came back, and no mine has ever been found. Was Waltz guarding a real mine, or only the gold he took from somewhere else?