Here is a news article that is in the May Edition of Lost Treasure -- Nick
TRUTH or CONCEQUENCES, NEW MEXICO, - For 16 years Nick Fleming, president of the U.S. treasure recovery company, Tesoro Del Alma, Inc., has been in an ongoing battle over a fortune in treasure that he discovered in a New Mexico cave in April, 1994, at a site now known as TDA-6. The treasure trove contains Spanish made dore´ bars assayed at 60% gold, 20% silver and 20% other. At the time of discovery, Fleming paced off the size of the hoard to be “approximately five feet high, thirty feet wide and fifty feet long, stacked similar to a pallet of bricks,” according to the company’s Website. After years of legal battles the courts have upheld that Fleming does own the treasure, so the question is how to bring the hoard to the surface in a manner consistent with BLM regulations.
With that yet to be worked out plenty of others who know about Fleming’s treasure, and who for years have been keeping an eye on the site are now coming out of the woodwork as if in a Hollywood western. According to Fleming one crooked Montana speculator has already fleeced investors out of over $1 million in some bogus mining deal in the Caballo Mountains that is completely unrelated to the TDA-6 recovery project. But in the past Fleming warns, similar scams have involved con-artists claiming to represent Tesoro Del Alma, or the TDA-6 site.
Then there are the desperate claim jumpers who at the time of this news release are currently attempting to tunnel into the cave to steal Fleming’s treasure. Reports that the claim jumpers have armed themselves and are using explosives illegally to develop their tunnel have been largely ignored by BLM officers in the Truth or Consequences BLM office. They claim the tunnel being built may sit on private land that is adjacent to BLM land, according to Fleming. So for now it seems unlikely that BLM officers will get involved.
Unfortunately that leaves no law enforcement to protect the legitimate business interests of those who have been lawfully working on the TDA-6 site, (which sits on BLM land) from those who seek to get rich quick by any means necessary. In the past Fleming has had his life threatened and gunfire has erupted at this site before, leaving those who are working within the scope of the law to stand alone against those who opt to operate outside of the law. When multi-millions if not more are at stake, the possibility of an Old West showdown in the Caballos becomes too real of a prospect. Its long overdue for the U.S. government to take steps to ensure this area is secure and to allow Tesoro Del Alma to recover its treasure in a manner described by law.
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