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For the past five years Horst H. Liebner has been uncovering the mystery behind 1,000-year-old artifacts recovered from two sunken treasures in the Java Sea. Since1987, the German scholar has been researching maritime culture and the history of the Malay Archipelago. As scientific advisor, Liebner, 49, who is based in Makassar, Sulawesi, has painstakingly pieced [...]
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As two men are set to share £3.3m after discovering Anglo-Saxon gold, Mark Adams investigates whether you could boost your income with a little treasure hunting It’s set to be a very merry Christmas this year for two Staffordshire men. In July, metal detecting enthusiast Terry Herbert discovered a hoard of gold on land owned [...]
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I ran to Oregon with a good friend to detect for gold nuggets using the Minelab GPX series detectors for a couple days. Attached are photos of my only gold find. The specimen shown was found Thursday, Sept 25th. 2008. It has a dry weight of 25.2 Troy Ounces and I have not had a [...]
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Posted on: Friday, 14 November 2008, 10:15 CST A man with a metal detector discovered gold and silver when he exposed a significant collection of antique Celtic coins in a cornfield in the southern Dutch city of Maastricht. “It’s exciting, like a little boy’s dream,” Paul Curfs, 47, said Thursday after the amazing discovery was [...]
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My First Gold Coin !!! I just wanted to let everyone know that it only took a short 5426 mile trip over land and the Atlantic Ocean to find that coin, but it happened. Here is the deal…I went to England on a metal detecting adventure. Reason I call it an adventure, is that getting [...]
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By Phil Brown, Commentary Published: April 30, 2008 12:26 am The time was 158 years ago. The place was Great Salt Plains and five guys returning home from California, where a gold rush was under way, were running for their lives. They were being pursued by a band of Cheyenne-Arapaho Indians bent on killing them, [...]
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After a decade of fund raising, Nevada brings home a precious cache of records on a lost chapter in state history By Dennis Myers dennism@newsreview.com This article was published on 04.10.08. Of the Grosh brothers who discovered the Comstock Lode, one historian wrote, “No one else in that region was so well equipped for the [...]
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By Associated Press March 22, 2008 Last updated: Saturday, March 22, 2008 3:00 PM EDT HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) A treasure hunter wants permission to dig in a state forest in northern Pennsylvania for a cache of gold he believes was lost by a Union convoy transporting it to the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia during the [...]
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Jill Stark January 16, 2008 http://www.theage.com A MODERN-DAY gold rush has prompted amateur prospectors to dust off their metal detectors in the hope of striking it rich. Lured by soaring world gold prices — which reached an all-time high of $US914 ($A1016) an ounce on Monday — many Victorians are searching for the nugget that [...]
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