Treasure!

Old news, but damn.

A long quest for booty from the Spanish colonial era appears to be culminating in Chile with the announcement by a group of adventurers that they have found an estimated 600 barrels of gold coins and Incan jewels on the remote Pacific island.

“The biggest treasure in history has been located,” said Fernando Uribe-Etxeverria, a lawyer for Wagner, the Chilean company leading the search. Mr Uribe-Etxeverria estimated the value of the buried treasure at US$10bn (£5.6bn).

In case you missed that here it is again.

value of the buried treasure at US$10bn

Full story here

http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1578135,00.html

This post was written by Ttancm and published on September 1, 2006 at 8:01 pm.
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