By HuntTreasure.net on May 10, 2008 in Featured, News Accounts, Video Stories | 0 Comments
You might never have thought about or expected it, but taking your ring in for cleaning leaves some small silver, gold, or platinum nuggets behind for the jeweler.
Don’t worry, your jeweler isn’t chopping pieces off from your jewelry when making them all shiny again. Buffing and cleaning a ring results in minute amounts of [...]
By Darrin Unser on Mar 6, 2008 in Featured, Shipwreck News, Treasure Finds | 0 Comments
Taking steps that could be considered more procedural in impact, U.S. District Judge Steven D. Merryday made several rulings in relationship to the Odyssey Marine Exploration, Inc. v. The Unidentified Shipwrecked Vessel (Spain) case.
As you may recall from past HuntTreasure.net articles, this series of events started in May of 2007, when the [...]
By HuntTreasure.net on Feb 22, 2008 in Archaelogical Discoveries and Events, Featured, News Accounts, Treasure Finds | 0 Comments
Deutschneudorf, Germany — Treasure hunters in Germany may have found the fabled Amber Room treasure, according to Spiegel Online. The Amber Room was built from 1701-1709 in Prussia and was beautifully created by German and Russian craftsmen with amber panels that were backed with gold leafs and mirrors.
The chamber was given to Russian [...]
By HuntTreasure.net on Feb 5, 2008 in Archaelogical Discoveries and Events, Featured, News Accounts, Treasure Finds, Video Stories | 0 Comments
You might imagine finding some old pennies, but who would ever expect to discover a shiny gold coin buried within the oldest part of an American City? But an old gold coin was indeed found, and it’s worth tens of thousands of dollars.
The Main Plaza area of downtown San Antonio, TX has been experiencing [...]
By Darrin Unser on Dec 13, 2007 in Featured, Treasure Finds | 0 Comments
Many years have passed since the 1849 California Gold Rush near Sacramento, 158 in fact. These were the days long before the inventions of the light bulb or the automobile. The United States Civil War was still 12 years off, and California was not even a state yet.
Life was difficult for a majority of Americans. [...]
By HuntTreasure.net on Nov 23, 2007 in Featured, Treasure Finds | 0 Comments
Overton, Wrexham (UK) — A man with his metal detector discovered a 17th century gold coin-like object on farm land in Wrexham, North Wales.
It’s similar in appearance to a coin, but has a small whole as if made to hang from a chain. That and its design helped identify its true [...]
By HuntTreasure.net on Nov 13, 2007 in Featured, Fun and Adventure, News Accounts, Video Stories | 0 Comments
Can life get any better than that?
For sure and hands down, driving a D9T Caterpillar and prospecting for gold has got to be more fun than pencil pushing Wall Street numbers.
And if you’re in the wilds of Alaska, you better go cowboy style and side-strap a .50-caliber Smith & Wesson. You [...]