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I've watched quite a few of the videos, in the UK, where they recover all manner of interesting historic stuff, like antique swords and armour, and then in the US where they usually find dodgy used firearms and knives and shopping carts, scooters and bikes.
It's a sport with a high trash-low treasure ratio.
Which I'm kinda drawn to it but have so far resisted. While I know there's spots on the old ferry landing in Ainsworth that would yield treasures, I'm also annoyed by the things it wouldn't get - silver, gold, old glass patent medicine bottles, etc, etc.
But this might just change my thinking...
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A brief summary of the wealth that lies unclaimed in the Asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.
Link: Wiki on Psyche 16
Link: Wiki on Asteroid Mining
Note that Psyche 16 is an M-Type Asteroid, being comprised almost entirely of heavy metals. Most of the precious metals on earth have already sunk through the crust and into the core, the possibility or theory then that Psyche 16 is a relic core from a planet implies that it is laden with precious metals.
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Another YouTube Channel I most definitely shouldn't subscribe to...
I love how he's working old ground, tailings that have become now an orchard, and it's just the zen walk interrupted to pick up gold nuggets...
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This, via "The Guardian" (and various other news sources) - the biggest gold nugget found in England, likely to be valued at over £30, 000.
Note that most of the absurdly large value is not based upon it's weight (a 'mere' 64.8grams, or 2 ounces), but rather the rarity of the find given the location. The 'Provenance'.
In England. And, while I'm certain it's not the "biggest" - merely the biggest recorded, the quality of the metal detector, the "remoteness" of the locale, all these serve to underscore and remind me that it's not the gold that's in short supply, it's the people looking for it. Now I'm off googling the geology of Shropshire...
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I don't know how I never heard of this. To summarize, sometime in the 2020's a farmer stumbled across a hoard of 700+ buried gold coins in his field.
Gold Dollars, $5 and $10 Pieces, with a value over a Million Dollars.
Links: Wikipedia on the Great Kentucky Hoard, The National Post, LiveScience.Com - which is of interest as it mentions a few other unrecovered hoards of even greater Value:
Many wealthy Kentuckians are rumored to have buried huge sums of money to prevent it from being stolen by the Confederacy. James Langstaff left a letter saying he had buried $20,000 in coins on his property in Paducah, William Pettit buried $80,000 worth of gold coins near Lexington, and Confederate soldiers quarantined for measles reportedly stole payroll and hid it in a cave in Cumberland Gap. None of these caches has ever been recovered.
Of interest as well, other hoards in North America - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_hoards_in_North_America, and be sure to follow links to the Baltimore Gold Hoard and the Castine Hoard.
And, finally, a post on other rumored undiscovered hoards of Kentucky: https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/, which has me looking up all sorts of things on Google Maps...