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Did the gold miners hide gold?

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Anonymous

12y ago
Updated: 8/20/2019

Hypothesis: placer gold miners hid gold outside of mining camps. Some miners found enough placer gold that it would have been cumbersome to carry it around while working and their gold fever would have made them very uncomfortable leaving gold in their tents or cabins. I believe some gold miners would have dug holes near rocks or easy to remember trees high above mining camps such as Rich Bar or Nelson Creek in California. This was their bank. Some of these men died and never recovered their gold. It sits in the ground this day.

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12y ago

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