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Well, welcome everybody to Part 2 of the
Book of Mormon Metals Map Geography.
This is going to be
Part 2, the Metals Map.
Referring to our overview, we're past
Part 1 where we talked about the
general considerations
of the Book of Mormon
imposed on us by the
Book of Mormon itself.
And we've also talked about the four
Book of Mormon maps described, three of
them described by Mormon and one of
them, a very small land, Moron
described by Moroni.
So, now we're going to look at
what I refer to as, the metals map.
Again, informed to us by
the Book of Mormon itself.
When we look at the Book
of Mormon map in general,
this is how it's aligned.
What we can now do is, we can now, from
the Book of Mormon where it is described
where minerals are found
in great abundance,
we can now map those
minerals to these lands.
When we talk about metals in abundance, we
need to remember that they didn't have
satellites.
They didn't have aircraft that they could
fly over and do with amazing technology
and detect what metals
were in the earth below.
They had to basically
see evidence of metals
on the surface.
And what metals are referenced in the
Book of Mormon?
Well, we have gold which is AU.
Silver which is AG. I've
colored them appropriately.
Copper which is CU.
And we have iron, referenced FE, in black.
Now the Book of Mormon
also refers to brass.
Well, in order to have brass, you've also
got to have zinc.
So we can assume that
wherever it talks about brass,
there had to be copper and zinc.
Zinc, of course, ZN.
Or as we say in New Zealand, Zed.
All right, so our first land referenced
is First Inheritance.
We're told when they landed in America,
First Inheritance, which
is by the West Sea.
They found in great abundance gold, silver
and copper.
And when Nephi flees from his brothers
and goes east and up
into the land of Nephi.
There are also metals in great abundance.
And Nephi, of course,
was very skilled already
in working metals.
And he taught this to his people.
So there they had gold, silver, copper.
They obviously had to have zinc because
they talk about brass and they
also had iron.
The next reference to metals is found
in Zarahemla.
Zarahemla is described as having gold
and silver in abundance.
Next, further North the land of Moron,
where the Jaredite Kings reigned from.
We had similar to the land Nephi,
we had a great abundance of gold,
silver, copper, zinc and iron.
So, those are the lands
and the metals they have.
I'd like you to particularly notice the
relationship between them.
The west-east relationship
of First Inheritance and
Nephi is important to note.
And then north of them,
Zarahemla with gold and silver.
And then further north, we
have again great abundance
near the west coast of these metals
in the land Moron.
Interestingly, when I
researched this I said,
"Okay, let me go to the
US Geological Survey.
Let me go to them and
find out what they say.
They have a bunch of country maps where
are depicted on those country maps
where the major deposits
of metals are." Okay?
Now, of course, these are
commercial grade level
sufficient metals that
are in an abundant manner.
So, what I found is that the metals map,
when you look at North and
South America together,
only had one solution.
This is the solution that
the metals map provides.
First Inheritance would of have to
have been in Ecuador.
The land Nephi would have
to have been in Columbia.
The land Zarahemla somewhere
in Central America.
Up from Costa Rica on up
into the southern parts
of Mexico.
And then the land Moron,
with its metals, had
to be around the area
of what we call today
Guadalajara, west of
Mexico City in the area
of the west coast of Mexico.
Interestingly, the USGS
maps did not show copper
in the Guadalajara area.
However, what I found was that
in the historic records, for example,
we have the Spanish conquistadors.
They specifically record
they went into that area
because the natives were mining copper.
And they were interested
in getting their hands
on the copper in that area.
So, it may just be those resources have
been significantly
depleted and so the USGS
is not showing much in the way of
copper in that area at this time.
With the metals map
yielding only one solution,
we see how that maps
or suggests where these
various lands should be.
So, First Inheritance should
be in the Ecuador region.
The land of Nephi east and up.
Eastward and more,
specifically, we would say
northeast but still eastward and up
into the highlands of Columbia.
And then we have Zarahemla
somewhere up in the
Mesoamerica area.
And then the land of
Moron, as we talked about
with the land Desolation,
south of it and a
little bit east of it.
And with that narrow
neck of land, with the
narrow pass by the West Sea, that we'll
talk about later in the presentation.
Notice also that the small neck of land,
with a narrow strip of wilderness,
fits very nicely into
the Isthmus of Panama,
as we call it today, between the
East Sea and the West Sea.
All right, so let's look
at First Inheritance
this is the USGS map.
Notice in three areas you have significant
abundance of gold, silver and copper.
Down in this area, the central area near
the coast and this area up near the coast.
Now remember they land, from the ocean,
so these metals are
found close to the coast.
And in great abundance all through there.
Peru doesn't work because what you
find in abundance on the coast of Peru
is iron.
And that's not talked about at all
in the Book of Mormon
as being in that area.
Now, Nephi, so remember
Nephi flees his brothers
and those that go with him and they flee.
And they go eastward and upward into what
they refer to as the land Nephi.
With its great abundance
of gold, silver, copper,
zinc, by deduction, so
they had brass and iron.
And we find that throughout
this red shaded area,
but particularly concentrated in
the area around Quihdo and Medellin,
up in the mountains there of Columbia.
Look, we continue north now.
We look at Panama.
Well, Panama has gold and it has copper,
but it has no silver.
Therefore, by deduction, Panama can not be
First Inheritencce on the west coast.
It can not be Nephi,
the highland area east
of First Inheritance, and it
can not be Zarahemla.
Next,country north, we
come to is Costa Rica.
Costa Rica has gold, silver and copper,
so it potentially could
be First Inheritance
except that there's no eastern highlands
with the more abundant metals.
So it can't be First Inheritance
on the west coast.
It can't be the land Nephi.
It doesn't fit either one of those.
You don't have that west
coast metals grouping
with eastern highlands metal grouping.
It doesn't exist there.
It could be Zarahemla because it
has both gold and silver.
Next, we have Nicaragua and just like
Costa Rica, same thing,
it has gold and silver
so it could potentially be Zarahemla.
We find the same thing true with Honduras.
Gold and silver, yes,
it could be Zarahemla,
but you don't have
those abundant minerals,
other minerals in that west-coast eastern
highland relationship
existing there either.
Same thing is true in El Salvador.
It has gold and silver, but no copper.
So, although it is on
the west coast, but it
can't be First Inheritance.
It doesn't have eastern highlands with the
more abundant metals.
It could, however, be Zarahemla.
Guatemala. Guatemala
has gold, silver, copper
in abundance.
However, there's not again that west coast
eastern highland relationship.
So it can't be First Inheritance.
It can't be Nephi, but
it could be Zarahemla.
Up into Mexico next.
And we see concentrated
in the Guadalajara area,
again that abundance of metals except for
according to the USGS,
copper, but we have the
historic record that says there was
active mining of copper there
and that's why the Spanish went in there
to conquer it - or one
of the reasons they did.
So again the metals map yields to us
just this one solution.
Again, First Inheritance down in Ecuador.
The land of Nephi would be up in Columbia.
And then you've got
that small neck of land,
narrow strip of wilderness that matches
the Isthmus of Panama between the seas.
And then you've got gold and silver
with Zarahemla being
one of those areas in there.
And then past that narrow neck of land,
with the narrow pass by
the West Sea, that we'll
talk about in a later
part of the presentation,
into the area of Guadalajara
for the land Moron.
