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Man Jailed For 10 Years For Refusing To Reveal Location Of "Ship Of Gold" Treasure May Soon Be Freed

A former deep-sea treasure hunter and research scientist jailed for refusing to disclose the location of 500 missing gold ...
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Sunken Ship Treasure Hunter Arrested After Being on the Lam

In 1857, a ship loaded with ore from the California Gold Rush sank during a hurricane off South Carolina. In 1988, a scientist from Ohio discovered the wreck of the SS Central America and recovered 21 ...
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A California Gold Rush history : featuring the treasure from the S.S. Central America : a source book for the Gold Rush historian and numismatist / by Q. David Bowers ...

"The California Gold Rush: Getting there, Mining, Contemporary stories and accounts, Private coiners and assayers, San Francisco Mint -- Treasure of the S.S. Central America: Saga at sea of the ...
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How one shipwreck and a cargo of lost gold sparked a U.S. financial panic

The S.S. Central America sank off the coast of South Carolina in 1857, taking with it 425 lives and a fortune in gold rush bounty. When the Central America sank, it became the worst maritime disaster ...