Largest treasure in World history found on Robinson Crusoe Island

[BlackCat]

Originally posted by Ecthy
In one of the last chapters of Robinson Crusoe, aren't there some guys there searching for gold? Also, why did Robinson not find it himself? I mean OK, he didn't exist, but they were people like him. What was that name. Alexander Selkirk?

This may be a wild guess but he may have been busy trying to survive and maybe he didn't see it opportune to dig 25 meters down at random.

[Ecthy]

25 m?

No way the spaniards hid a treasure so deep. You have to consider time, it might only have been 10 metres eep at his time. Defoe should have done a better job at research.

[BlackCat]

Originally posted by Ecthy
25 m?

No way the spaniards hid a treasure so deep. You have to consider time, it might only have been 10 metres eep at his time. Defoe should have done a better job at research.

I remebered wrong, it was only 15 meters (read the damn link - don't trust me just because I seem to have done it )

[Bosh]

Originally posted by BlackCat


This may be a wild guess but he may have been busy trying to survive and maybe he didn't see it opportune to dig 25 meters down at random.

He was also very much engaged in banging goats...

[Lul Thyme]

Those are all very good reasons, but the main one is that the gold was buried there after Robinson Crusoe (or the guy who he is based on) lived on the island...
The date on the article said 1715 is when the treasure is believed to have been buried, and Robison Crusoe is in 17th century.

[DaShi]

Arr, there goes me retirement fund.

[The Emperor Fabulous]

TEN BILLIONS DOLLARS?!?!?!

I'm in the wrong ****ing business...

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by BlackCat


Unless I'm wrong, noone has yet seen the gold - they have just fonund something 25 meters in the ground.

Yes, there seems to be an awful lot of pie-in-the-sky speculation mixed in with scanty facts- '600 barrels' worth 10 billion dollars...

... still if they found Inca artefacts, not hacked up, it would be a very worthwhile addition to the relatively scant remains there are left.


'It's all mine', says Mummy Inca:

[Ted Striker]

HOLY ****ING **** 10 BILLION DOLLARS!!!!!!!!!

No wonder the Spanish got so rich so fast. But you can only make a living off of stealing other nations gold before you start running out of nations to steal from...

[child of Thor]

Originally posted by Ted Striker
HOLY ****ING **** 10 BILLION DOLLARS!!!!!!!!!

No wonder the Spanish got so rich so fast. But you can only make a living off of stealing other nations gold before you start running out of nations to steal from...

just ask George

we still have only that gaurdian article to go on - haven't seen anything on the bbc or other news sites i'd like more info(checks its not april.... ). Will $10 billion effect world wide gold prices?

[chequita guevara]

It will be tied up in the courts for years, unless Chile has a law explicitly stating all buried treasure is theirs. We have one of those in Florida, which just means that if you find treasure, you don't tell anyone.

[Dinner]

Originally posted by Lul Thyme
Those are all very good reasons, but the main one is that the gold was buried there after Robinson Crusoe (or the guy who he is based on) lived on the island...
The date on the article said 1715 is when the treasure is believed to have been buried, and Robison Crusoe is in 17th century.

Hmm, are you sure? I mean the book was called Treasure Island about a vast amount of pirate treasure supposedly buried there. Now, boom, they find a vast hoard of pirate gold.

[Dinner]

Originally posted by child of Thor


just ask George

we still have only that gaurdian article to go on - haven't seen anything on the bbc or other news sites i'd like more info(checks its not april.... ). Will $10 billion effect world wide gold prices?

I doubt it since no one will be melting down 400 year old antiques. They'll likely wind up in a museum some where.

[Immortal Wombat]

Originally posted by Oerdin
Hmm, are you sure? I mean the book was called Treasure Island about a vast amount of pirate treasure supposedly buried there. Now, boom, they find a vast hoard of pirate gold.

The treasure island in Treasure Island was in the West Indies. Selkirk's island, Juan Fernández, is off the Chilean coast. And yes, Robinson Crusoe was set 1652-1686.

[monolith94]

There was a good short story by Roald Dahl about a couple of british gents who find Roman artifacts in a field... and what results because of it. Wish I could remember the name of it...