LA Times Coverage Of Attempts To Wrest Goldmine Back From Cartel Control

[Greenhorn]

Quite an interesting story, reminds me why I don't do my remote beach camping fishing trips to Baja Sur anymore... 

 

[Rivers rat]

Jeez!!Thanks for sharing!

 

RR

[Greenhorn]

I was amazed at the amount of placer gold the cartels were pulling out. Very impressive for an old mine. I wonder if the native americans mined it before the spaniards...

I wouldn't have done what this guy did and still does, unbelievably dangerous. It's crazy money to make but.....

[Bedrock Bob]

There isn't any business the cartels don't get a piece of. Everything from oil to avocados. 

I've hunted gold in Mexico off and on for 30 years. You have always been expected to pay a "cuota" to the local power brokers to prospect. That much hasn't changed.

The "cartels" don't bother with gringos looking for gold. They shake down businesses. The local badasses are the guys a detectorist needs to worry about.

A life is not worth much down there. You have to make a deal with the right guy or you will have to make deals with everyone below him and then make him happy too. 

 

[beatup]

Don't detect in Mexico but still not all that far from where I do in Az.

[okara gold]

11 minutes ago, beatup said:

Don't detect in Mexico but still not all that far from where I do in Az.

My buddy and I spent several days prospecting around Arivaca, AZ. years ago. We spent the nights sleeping in the desert and didn't find any gold, only a lot of howling coyotes at night.

[Bedrock Bob]

22 hours ago, beatup said:

Don't detect in Mexico but still not all that far from where I do in Az.

One foot north of the border is a long way from Mexico.