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"IF" the amount of the deposits are accurate, and "if" this was purified metal, then this had to be either A) "accumulated" wealth over a long period of time, or B) wealth acquire from an extremely large and rich operation.
Ore would have to be mined, crushed, smelted & separated, etc. Just way too much gold and silver in the BP for thirty men to have achieved even with the aid of some Indians.
Another "IF"... to "WHAT IF"; What If the "Mining Operation" went on from 1819-1884? BEALE PAPERS written, then released to Lynchburg, Va. "readers" in 1885...