Article on Joel Poinsett trying to push out Spanish from Mexico for access to Mines

I ran across this article on how some person name Joel Poinsett, French or English trying to push out Spanish from Mexico for access to the mines.

http://mexfiles.net/2007/03/29/buried-treasure/

My ancestors were the Spanish from the colonial days, we own large acres of property and one of my relatives has a property with a hand dug mine on it.