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gavin  
Posted : Monday, 1 July 2013 11:20:49 PM(UTC)
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Interesting story about hidden gold...

http://www.vice.com/read/searching-for-forrest-fenns-gold
Lammerlaw  
Posted : Tuesday, 2 July 2013 12:01:19 AM(UTC)
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A great read and recommended to all!
There must be a million treasures like that world wide, mostly not purposely planted but lost by miners, hidden by miners who never got to retrieve them and so on.