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A treasure map is a map that marks the location of buried treasure, a lost mine, a valuable secret or a hidden locale. More common in fiction than in reality, "pirate treasure maps" are often depicted in works of fiction as hand drawn and containing arcane clues for the characters to follow.
This list of deepest mines includes operational and non-operational mines that are at least 2,224 m (7,297 ft), which is the depth of Krubera Cave, the deepest known natural cave in the world. The depth measurements in this list represent the difference in elevation from the entrance of the mine to the deepest excavated point.
Usually the mines are said to contain valuable elements or minerals such as gold, silver or diamonds. Often there is a map or other document allegedly detailing the history or location of the mine. Common to all the lost mine legends is the idea of a valuable and mysterious resource being lost to history.
Both can be mined as ore and smelted into a bar using the mining profession. Mithril also appears in the MMORPG Guild Wars 2 as a blueish-silver metal used in crafting. In Defense of the Ancients , the multiplayer online battle arena version of Warcraft, players can buy the Mithril Hammer from the Main Shop.
Sketch map of the development of the Dolaucothi Gold Mines in Carmarthenshire, south Wales, showing hushing fed by aqueducts. Hushing is an ancient and historic mining method using a flood or torrent of water to reveal mineral veins. [1] [2] The method was applied in several ways, both in prospecting for ores, and for their exploitation ...
Archaeologists found gold plates, beads and earrings along with several sacrificial victims. Gold treasure trove uncovered in 1,200-year-old elite burial in Panama. Take a look
The deepest mines in the world are the Mponeng and TauTona (Western Deep Levels) gold mines in the Witwatersrand region of South Africa, which are currently working at depths exceeding 3,900 m (12,800 ft). [13] The deepest inactive mine in Asia is the Kolar in the Karnataka region of India. Closed in 2001, the main shaft had reached a depth of ...
The mines of Laurion (or Lavrion) [1] are ancient mines located in southern Attica between Thorikos and Cape Sounion, approximately 50 kilometers south of the center of Athens, in Greece. The mines are best known for producing silver, but they were also a source of copper and lead. A number of remnants of these mines (shafts, galleries, surface ...