# Is there any basis for the Peralta mine and the Peralta stones? · Lost Dutchman's gold mine

> Three answers have been proposed. None is ahead on the evidence yet. Three are still possible.

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# Is there any basis for the Peralta mine and the Peralta stones?

Asked 26 Oct 2026 by [**apollo** ](https://mysteriesdept.com/u/apollo)·Part of [Did Jacob Waltz have a gold mine in the Superstition Mountains?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/lost-dutchman-mine/questions/QST0D0G0B1T7EHP/did-jacob-waltz-have-a-gold-mine-in-the-superstition)·3 answers·0·0 following

**Partly answered** None is ahead yet. See what would settle it.

 

## Where it stands

Three answers have been proposed. None is ahead on the evidence yet. Three are still possible.

## Why it matters

The Spanish-mine layer gives the legend its antiquity and its maps; the "Peralta stones" are the only physical objects anyone points to⁠[[1]](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0D0G01RY7Z0Y/tales-of-the-superstitions-the-origins-of-the-lost-dutchmans)⁠[[2]](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0D0G04PP65D7/lost-dutchmans-gold-mine).

## Answers 3



[**A Peralta family mined gold in the Superstitions before 1850 and was massacred by Apaches.** ](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/lost-dutchman-mine/answers/ANS0D0G0KK83WM6/a-peralta-family-mined-gold-in-the-superstitions-before-1850)

Failed a test; not refuted outright

Evidence: 2 against

Disputed



[**None of these.** ](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/lost-dutchman-mine/answers/ANS0D0G0MTA5W7T/none-of-these)

Not tested enough to call either way

Evidence: none yet

Still possible



[**The Peralta stones are twentieth-century fakes.** ](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/lost-dutchman-mine/answers/ANS0D0G0MAP0HB0/the-peralta-stones-are-twentieth-century-fakes)

Not tested enough to call either way

Evidence: 1 for

Still possible

## History

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Where it fits

Lost Dutchman's gold mine

[**Did Jacob Waltz have a gold mine in the Superstition Mountains?** ](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/lost-dutchman-mine/questions/QST0D0G0B1T7EHP/did-jacob-waltz-have-a-gold-mine-in-the-superstition)Key question · most likely there was no mine; an old man's deathbed talk, perhaps with a small cache, grew into a composite legend

[How did Adolph Ruth die?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/lost-dutchman-mine/questions/QST0D0G0BHE6WKZ/how-did-adolph-ruth-die)Open · 3 answers, inconclusive

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