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Black Rock Ranger "Teksage" rides an art car during the Nevada Day parade. Since 2000, Carson City's newspaper, Nevada Appeal, has sponsored a month-long "treasure hunt" each year in October (except for 2003 and 2004) to celebrate Nevada Day. Beginning on the first Monday, a clue is posted each weekday on a web site set up for the contest which ...
The Saddle Ridge Hoard is the name given to a hoard of 1,427 gold coins unearthed in the northern half of Trinity County, in Northern California in 2013. The face value of the coins totaled $27,980, but was assessed to be worth $10 million.
In many versions of the story, Weavers Needle is a prominent landmark for locating the lost mine. Entrance to Lost Dutchman State Park. The Lost Dutchman's Gold Mine (also known by similar names) is, according to legend, a rich gold mine hidden in the Southwestern United States.
These treasure-hunting destinations offer all sorts of goodies, including gold, diamonds, and more semi-precious souvenirs.
The hoard was discovered in Reno, Nevada, at the home of LaVere Redfield after his death in 1974. Redfield was burglarized in 1952 and at that time he had already amassed a hoard of 270,000 silver dollars. He claimed that the authorities who investigated the burglary forced him to take the silver dollars to the bank at that time.
Silver mining in Nevada, a state of the United States, began in 1858 with the discovery of the Comstock Lode, the first major silver-mining district in the United States. Nevada calls itself the "Silver State." Nevada is the nation's second-largest producer of silver, after Alaska. In 2014 Nevada produced 10.93 million troy ounces of silver, of ...
Montezuma's treasure is a legendary buried treasure said to be located in the Casa Grande ruins or elsewhere in the Southwestern United States and Mexico. [1] The legend is one of many treasure stories in American folklore. Thomas Penfield wrote, "There is not the slimmest thread of reality in this story which is common throughout Mexico and ...
Treasure City (originally Tesora) is an abandoned mining town located in the Treasure Hill region of the White Pine Range, in western White Pine County, Nevada, United States. History [ edit ]