9,000 people a year hunt a gold mine that geology says can't exist

The mine was named for Jacob Waltz, who confessed its location on his deathbed in 1891 and left a crude map that vanished with searcher Adolph Ruth.

Lost Dutchman's Gold Mine — Chris C Jones / CC BY-SA 2.5 (via Wikipedia)

About 9,000 people a year search Arizona's Superstition Mountains for the Lost Dutchman's Gold Mine. Some have died in the search. The mine is named for Jacob Waltz, a German immigrant ("Dutchman" was the era's term for Germans) who supposedly found a rich gold vein and kept its loc…