TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — There was the California Gold Rush of the 1850s and the Tucson Gold Rush of the late 1880s.

Prospectors by the thousands descended on the Santa Catalina Mountains searching in the Cañada del Oro, or 'Canyon of Gold'.

That is just part of the legend of the Iron Door Mine.

"Had no idea there was mining up there," said author and publisher Robert Zucker. "Hundreds and hundreds of people were up there for over a hundred years pulling copper and gold and silver from the mountains."

Zucker is a Tucson native, and the author of the book "Treasures of the Santa Catalina Mountains."

A friend and prospector, William "Flint" Carter, first told Zucker about the legend 25 years ago.

"He would tell me this incredible story about the Iron Door Mine, gold in the mountains, Buf

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