gollum
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- Jan 2, 2006
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- Minelab SD2200D (Modded)/ Whites GMT 24k / Fisher FX-3 / Fisher Gold Bug II / Fisher Gemini / Schiebel MIMID / Falcon MD-20
- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
$70M in gold value in 1900 (~$21/oz) = 3.3M oz.
That's more than a metric ton of gold ! That discovery must have made some people extremely wealthy.
If you know about Brazilian History, you see that this happened right at the time Brazil was gaining its independence. Crazy times there in 1891.
Mike