April 16, 2021
(Press Staff Photo by Geoffrey Plant)
A view of Gold Gulch Road, near one of the mineral exploration drilling sites proposed by Tucson-based Bronco Creek Exploration near McKnight Peak, in the Burro Mountains on the Gila National Forest west of White Signal.
A mineral exploration project in the Burro Mountains south of Silver City is unlikely to result in actual mining anytime soon, according to Silver City District Ranger Beth Ihle and representatives of the company that’s proposing to look for copper, gold, silver, lead and zinc underneath the southern part of the Gila National Forest.
“We had a lot of folks who interpreted this exploration project as a mine permit, but that’s not even a twinkle in the company’s eye right now,” Ihle said. “That’s a whole separate proposal.”
Harold Leach died last week at age 79 not knowing the fate of his son, Randy Leach, whose disappearance nearly 33 years ago remains a mystery.
Media accounts published after 17-year-old Randy Leach vanished with his mother s car in April 1988 suggested he d been killed by members of a Satanic cult after attending a graduation party in rural Leavenworth County.
Relatives and friends hoped the mystery would be solved Wednesday as they watched live video on The Capital-Journal s Facebook page showing a submerged car being pulled out of Lake Perry. Please let this be Randy s car God, Julie Jack-Spencer wrote in a comment on that page. This is my step cousin. Family needs some kind of closure.