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Thread for treasure hunters.

Treasure hunting related news:
>Hidden Treasure Chest Filled With Gold And Gems Is Found In Rocky Mountains
https://www.npr.org/2020/06/08/872186575/hidden-million-dollar-treasure-has-been-found-in-rocky-mountains-art-dealer-says
>A new documentary is set to reveal the journey of treasure hunters who are racing to find the buried loot of New York City gangster, Dutch Schultz
https://thestreetjournal.org/2020/11/new-documentary-follows-treasure-hunters-hunting-for-gangsters-loot/
>'The Grand Tour Presents: A Massive Hunt’, Has The Guys Hunting For Buried Treasure In Madagascar
https://decider.com/2020/12/18/the-grand-tour-presents-a-massive-hunt-prime-video-review/

>> No.25197827

even if someone will find a treasure who would he tell about it to anyone? Unnecessary risk of some jews or people that will claim it

>> No.25197990

Heres an interesting story of Greed and Gold thats not been followed up on. Hundreds of ounces of gold in quartz ore sitting on the sea floor off the Queen Charlotte's. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HH-0MeueHu4&t=9s

As far as I know, no one has dived the wreck mentioned above, and the gold is likely still there, its free for the taking for the crew with the gear to go after it.

>> No.25198022

>>25197827
If you tell the world about your find, yeah some government will usually stick their finger in your ass. Those guys who recovered all the gold on the sunken Spanish Armada ship, Spain confiscated it and basically just covered their costs. Then that hiker who found millions of dollars worth of loot in a cave that some dead cowboy had stashed, US government took it.

>> No.25198119

>>25198022
yeah its happening every time. even if you will find something with a metal detector you are always looking on someone's property

>> No.25198214

>>25197990
Usually requires a ton of expertise, a crew, a rig, and hundreds of thousands of dollars for deep sea salvage. But I wonder why they don't ever just send little deep sea submersibles down to just recover a little treasure at a time? If you don't to recover the entire wreck, is it still such a costly enterprise, you just need a mailbox amount of storage available to recover a little loot at a time.

>> No.25198289

>>25198214
its gold ore in this case, and its in shallow water, likely less than 40m deep. The wreck does still exist, it appears in survey notes from 10 years ago, but as far as I know, no ones gone after the gold. I am not sure how you would actually go get this ore though, if it wouldnt be easier to use a clam bucket and a sifting plant on a barge or some other setup with divers and dredges.

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>>25198214
> I wonder why they don't ever just send little deep sea submersibles down to just recover a little treasure at a time
That is one way to go after treasure, its just super slow and often more expensive to do because you can only recover a fraction of the loot every trip back and forth from the wreck. Thats how the SS Central Americas gold was recovered.

>> No.25198416

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>> No.25198479

more recent treasure finds from the UK.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/birdwatcher-looks-down-to-see-record-celtic-coin-hoard-glj6s3jpl

>> No.25198538

How worth it is it to learn technical diving for underwater treasure?

>> No.25198592

>>25198387
Damn that gold looks good. I lack the expertise and/or background required to get into sunken treasure. What I've been doing is around the American SouthWest. Day hikes with a metal detector. I don't want to give away my system, but I feel like I have a good chance of a big find with it. Better odds than the lotto or making it in Hollywood anyway.

>> No.25198633

>>25198479
Similar one here

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/california-couple-finds-10m-gold-coins-buried-yard-n38471

>> No.25198684

>>25198592
best way i ve determined to find items like old coins or other interesting artifacts is to snoop around old fire insurance maps of gold rush towns to locate where the boardwalks were. Most places have already been cleaned out over the decades but a few places have survived pillaging yet. Another handy trick is to look at those same maps and look for nearby marked fences were or power / telegraph poles. 20 thousand dollars in gold pieces were found in the Town of Ywak that way back in the 1960s. This specifically works well if you know a town or camp didnt have a bank, miners / gamblers would stash their loot at a specific fence post or power pole and return later for it.

>> No.25198951

I got a metal detector for Christmas. already found an old soda can, a washer, and a ten pound compressed air valve that seems too be from the 40s

>> No.25199033

>>25198951
have fun anon. I used to magnet fishing. pretty cool I found once a gun, few knives and wallets

>> No.25199124

Some guys I know found Japanese gold hoard in Philippines and the flip government took it immediately and didn't even pay them.

They stashed a bunch of gold bullion from it somewhere else and smuggled it out of the country. Guess they knew it was going to happen that way.

>> No.25199273

>>25199124
In Poland there is a law that everything under 10cm of the ground is owned by the government, even if it was on your property.

>> No.25199295

>>25198684
That's good thinking, thank you for sharing that! I was hiking around the desert in Arizona digging up the ground in small caves. So far all I have found are bones.

>> No.25199325

>>25198951
My cousin in Hawaii combs the beaches there and does pretty well, he found a Rolex once.

>> No.25199374

>>25199124
If you do find the big one, how would you unload it discretely if you didn't have connections?

>> No.25199390

>>25199124
>>25199273
I wish less countries would do this and work more on the UK law to do with treasure. You have to call it in but when you do you get a finders percentage of the value. At least that way it stops people simply smuggling out treasure destroying its historic value and collectors / museums get to preserve it.

>> No.25199433

>>25199374
I ve thought about this, and my best guess would be to contact a private collector after you have moved it to "safety". Say the loot came from somewhere and you want it sold quietly for a percentage of proceeds. I am sure though there are laws that stop this.

>> No.25199645

>>25197689
Glitch is the real treasure.

>> No.25199665

>>25199433
My grandfather had a pretty good find, worth about 100k today, less at the time. Had a friend who swore he could "fence" it for him. Was found treasure not "stolen", but he found it on government land. He gave it to the friend to fence and the guy vanished with it and he never heard from him again.