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A long read courtesy of the New York Times that details the search in Lower Silesia, Poland, for Nazi Gold. Abundant clues, found treasures, and the standard nut-jobs. It reads like an Indiana Jones script...
Link: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/05/09/searching-for-nazi-gold
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From Atlas Obscura, in WW2 a couple of Nazi Saboteurs were thwarted in NY and their cash purportedly hidden in the Catskills.
Read the full story here: http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/buried-somewhere-in-the-catskills-is-a-stash-of-nazi-loot
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Found this while researching what might have become of my lost parcels.
Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_missing_treasure
Inspiring. I have a pretty good idea where they all are, somebody should suggest they check Canada Post. I'm not kidding.
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I've posted on this before, and if you're unfamiliar read this post: http://rodboyle.com/index.php/53-treasure/lost/552-the-lost-lemon-mine
Now having read a fair bit on it I've become convinced that it's just another "Lost Gold Mine" story, they're abundant, every state/province/town has one.
The "evidence", or "testimony" might be a better phrase, is too slender, the existence of Blackjack and Lemon questionable, yet still every few years in Calgary there crops up another "Explanation" for it, whether it be the Crowsnest Volcanics or simple low level gold accumulation in the gravels. Some are mere explanations, others are solicitations for investors. There are seldom any follow ups in the press.
A couple of possibilities, however, present themselves to the optimist. First of all, glaciation. Almost all of Alberta was covered in glaciation that pushed and scraped rocks from the adjacent mountains down the prairies. Walk, in the badlands or across a farmers field, and with luck you will find granite, metamorphic schist, garnets, every sort of rock imaginable, none local, all here as a result of glaciation. Think then of the Okotoks Erratic, a massive boulder deposited outside Okotoks, and then of the other erratics deposited throughout Alberta. They abound, the bulk of them buried under glacial silt, topsoil, etc.
It's not improbably, therefore, to consider that the same action that deposited the erratics might have shaved a gold bearing quartz ledge and buried it somewhere in the province. Indeed it would be improbable if, in the history of our province, that hadn't happened. And, slightly buried or slightly exposed, sheds it's gold in a seasonally dry coulee, to be eventually found by the imaginary Blackjack and Lemon.
Or consider, in the badlands and deeper rivers of the province, over 75 million, 100 million years of history is exposed. It seems unlikely, impossible even, that none of those rivers bore gold, find the intersection of the past and the present, worn cobbles deep in a river valley or on a cliff face, pan these and check, perhaps this is where it can be found...
In short, the myth is the myth, a legend, but it speaks to a deeper truth, that gold can be found in surprising place(r)s...
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Some two tonnes of gold from the Australian Gold Fields went down with her. Reckoning at a conservative $1000 per ounce, the wreck is now worth somewhere in the neighborhood of $70,548,000 dollars.
Read more here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madagascar_(ship) and here: http://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?56749.
Abundant more sites exist for the curious.