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Soaring gold prices spark amateur treasure hunting craze. Here's how you can cash in too

A sharp rise in the price of gold is drawing folks out of their homes and into nature, fueling surge of interest in amateur prospecting across the US. The price of gold broke $4,000 per ounce for the ...
Yahoo

Rivers where you can still find gold in the UK and around the world today

The gold rushes of the 19th century have long since ended, but there are still plenty of places you can hunt for the precious metal using a shovel, pan, metal detector, and more. In fact, recreational ...
Treasure Coast Newspapers

1,000 silver coins, 5 gold escudos worth $1 million from 1715 treasure fleet found in Florida

The Treasure Coast of Florida includes Indian River County, Martin County and St. Lucie County. The Treasure Coast of Florida got its name in part because of the 1715 Spanish Treasure Fleet maritime ...
The Art Newspaper

Florida coin hoard worth $1m resurfaces debate over treasure hunting

Recent discoveries have renewed archaeologists’ concerns that a shipwreck-salvage company has exclusive rights to artefacts ...
Detroit News

There’s gold in that there river, say Minnesota treasure hunters

Minneapolis — In the classic 1948 Humphrey Bogart movie, “The Treasure of the Sierra Madre,” an old gold prospector opines that the precious metal is valuable because an ounce represents the sweat and ...