NARRATOR: The ghost town of Bodie is a spooky sight indeed. Once a gold-mining destination, it’s hard to imagine that this was where California had its glory days of Wild West lawlessness. BRAD STURDIVANT: “I mentioned about maybe taking your life into your own hands, they boasted ‘a killing a day’ in Bodie. Why […]
Gold
Enigmatic Discovery: Unearthing 840 Ancient Gold Coins in the Wickham Market Hoard, England
The Wickham Market Treasure Trove is a trove of 840 Iron Age gold staters discovered in March 2008 by auto technician Michael Dark using a metal detector in a field on Dallinghoo near Wickham Market, Suffolk, England. 825 coins were discovered at the site during excavation, and 840 coins had been discovered by the […]
Discovering Hidden Gems: Exploring Cache Creek’s Gold Treasures in Chaffee County, Colorado, USA
The first gold discoveries in Colorado were placer gold deposits. Cache Creek Park, a few miles west of the small town of Granite in northern Chaffee County, was one of these early gold discoveries. The gold of Cache Creek Park was discovered in 1859 (Parker, 1992), the same year gold was found by George A. […]
Gold Extracted from Colorado Mine
Gold Taken from Colorado Mine During the raising of the Rocky Mountains millions of years ago, superheated fluids rose from deep within the Earth and pushed minerals such as gold and silver up through the Earth’s crust. Erosion brought pieces of gold downstream in creeks (placer gold), while the deeper deposits (lode gold) could only be […]
Rare 1715 Fleet Gold Coral Rosary Jewelry: A Pirate Treasure Necklace from Mel Fisher’s Atocha
1715 FLEET GOLD & CORAL ROSARY w/ CROSS (with 2 COA’s: Original Real Eight COA (hand signed by L.B. Taylor) and well known Archeologist James Sinclair. Mel Fisher’s Archeologist (known best for both the Atocha & 1715 FLEET Treasure Hunters). Top Archeologist “James Sinclair” COA (Certificate of Authenticity) is also included. James Sinclair was […]