We will try to prove or disprove a Lost Treasure story or Legend.
Lost Treasure Hunter's goal is to re-write history using solid research along with state of the art Ground Penetrating Radar, Aerial Infrared Photography, Thermal Imaging , U.S.Geological Survey Topographical Maps and by utilizing various NASA Landsat programs.
Lost Treasure Hunter also contracts itself out to Insurance Companies, Private Parties or Individuals for research or recovery.
Fee's are based on a 50/50 split of recovered items on property owned by the individual or on a property that is claimable. Fees are also based on a finder's fee if said items have been stolen or based on a daily set research fee agreement.
Send us your Treasure project and we will let you know if it is a good fit for both parties to pursue?
Lost Treasure Hunter also contracts to Local, State or Military for projects that require our equipment or expertise for recovery. Including but not limited to expert witness testimony. Please see our Services section.
Today's technologies allows us to see into the ground up to 61 meters (200 feet) for both ferrous and non ferrous materials. This equipment can be used from a walking pace to speeds up to 22 miles per hour using an ATV or a snowmobile with pin point accuracy.
We are very to be proud to be working directly with Treasure Hunter 3D in several of our upcoming Youtube Treasure Hunting events. www.treasurehunter3d.com
Ground Penetrating Radar operates by transmitting pulses of ultra high frequency radio waves (microwave electromagnetic energy) down into the ground through a transducer (also called an antenna). The transmitted energy is reflected from various buried objects or distinct contacts between different earth materials. The antenna then receives the reflected waves and stores them in the digital control unit where they are immediately processed.
Remote sensing techniques have proven to be very useful in the search for Treasure and archaeological sites. Techniques such as Aerial Photography, Color-Infrared Photography, Thermal Infrared Multispectral Scanning (TIMS) and Radar Imaging have successfully been used to locate potential archaeological sites and add questions to known sites. Please see Remote Sensing techniques page for more information.
Once a location has been gridded and scanned in real time, the information is than converted into a 3D image with GPS interface and the entire scan is exported on to Google maps as a ground overlay (KLM) point by point into Google Earth. This data can be used on the spot or for later excavation and discovery.
Making a television show about Extreme Treasure Hunting seemed like a fun and rewarding thing to undertake.
Our team consist of Professional Treasure Hunters and Adventurer's like myself, along with all things legal.
We will have experts in the fields of Geology, Historian, Archaeologist and Native American along with local officials, if needed, on site at all times.Any Treasures found will be subject to all Antiquities laws and will eventually end up in a museum for all to enjoy. Please see laws and preservations page.
We will be teaching the viewer how to research and locate things long forgotten. We will do our best to educate the viewer as much as possible, but what the viewer does with this information is not the responsibility of Lost Treasure Hunter.
Lost Spanish mines, train and stagecoach robberies, and treasure tales have been passed down from generation to generation and most of the time the story gets bigger and more outrageous as the new storyteller puts his own unique spin on it.
Lost Treasure Hunter starts all research projects from the original first printed story/newspaper. Lost Treasure Hunter has an extensive library of archived and out of print material. If we don't have it,we know how to find it.
Most everything else printed after the original story is basically Pure BS and contrived thinking with the intent of selling stories and events, not solving them.
Lost Treasure Hunter will find and research a "lost mine or treasure tale" and then go on the hunt.
For most stories or legends someone started out at point A and ended up at point B, but they could never retrace their steps because of inclimate weather, dehydration or just plain bad planning, memory or luck.
Or when a train or stagecoach was robbed at point A and the robbers were killed a few miles later at point B and the loot was never recovered.
With the use of products like The Godeneye Plus and The DroneRover from Treasure hunter 3D.
Lost Treasure Hunter now has the ability to retrace those steps.
Please see their products at www.threasusurehunter3D.com
It also has to be noted that even though some of our equipment will see over a 100 feet into the earth, that most objects buried (unless it's a supported mine shaft, cave or an ore vein) are less than 6 feet deep.
The physics of digging a hole beyond six feet indicates that the hole without a support system will cave in on itself. That is one reason that graves are only six feet deep. This is also the main reason Prospectors in the 1700 and 1800's always built "cribs" when digging beyond 6 feet.
Back in the days of robbing trains and stagecoaches or anything else for that matter, would more than likely have had the robbers digging a shallow to moderate hole in advance to stash their cache in temporarily until the heat was off of them. They would also want to have easy retrieval when they came back to get it. It would not have been practical for them to be trying to fill in a 6-10 foot hole or to try to dig one with a posse on their heels. One must also consider the weight of the gold or silver or other items in the robbery.
Most large amounts of gold and silver that were in route were for payroll to employees of The Railroad, Civil War, or for shipment to the mints for processing.
For instance if $100,000 dollars worth of gold was stolen, that would break down into more than likely a one ounce $20 dollar gold piece, that times 5000 coins would equal $100,000 and 5000 ounces. That would be around 416 extra pounds to be carrying, plus it's bulk. Please see page Train and Stagecoach roberies.
Now if the Gold or Silver was in bars or nuggets/dust that number goes up dramatically.
$100,000 of raw gold would now weigh over 8,300 pounds.
The weight is easy to figure because the price of Gold didn't really change that much.
In 1792 Alexander Hamilton, first U.S. Secretary of Treasury under President George Washington, priced the American dollar at 24 ¾ grains of gold (not quite 1/20 of an ounce, making its price $19.39.)This set the “gold standard.” The price of gold remained approximately $20 per ounce until February 1934, a period of 142 years.
If one wanted to get technical, gold and other precious metals are usually weighed in the Troy weight system. The system used in the US is called the avoirdupois weight system or (avdp) where sixteen ounces equals one pound. A pound (avdp) is equal to 1.21528338 Troy pounds. One Troy ounce of gold weighs 1.0971377 ounce (avdp) and there are 12 Troy ounces in one Troy pound and only 0.822853347 pounds (avdp) in a Troy pound.
Basically 12 oz. not 16 oz = one pound.....One troy pound.
A horse loaded down with the rider and the extra weight was not going to get very far very fast.
Most items hid will be shallow and within a few miles of the original heist location if they are still there.
Using logic and technology Lost Treasure Hunter believes we will succeed in some of our adventures. The viewer has to also keep an open mind with the respect that some of these stories were and are just that..... Stories.
Our resource's are literally endless. From Wells, Fargo & Co's Express "Train Robbery" Ledger, 260 pages,The Library Of Congress's countless original maps and documented stories, to the mountains of Treasure books and magazines that have been published over the last 100 plus years.
Not to mention the thousands of museums, library's and college's all over the country and the world with their own research departments, local legends and newspaper archives.
Newspaper archives give us the date, time, and location.
These are still out there to be found.
With the use of Google Earth and other satellite programs, old maps and waybills can now be figured out like never before.
Exploring caves, old mines, Spanish Death Traps, Homesteads, and privies.
No adventure will be denied.
From Alaska to Death Valley, to the Mayan Mountains in Belize, to the Jungles of Guatemala, and the Amazon Jungles of South America.
Sometimes if you want to find something that has eluded man for years/centuries, you have to go where no man would ever go.
You have to mindset yourself like the person that had no fear and that was hiding something of great value or of great importance.
We will travel in some of the harshest landscapes in the country and the world.
Bad weather consisting of Extreme Heat or Extreme Cold, Snakes, Bats, Scorpions, Tigers, Leopards, Mountain Lions, Spiders (I hate spiders because you can't hear them) Bears and dealing with everything wild, painful or deadly.
Parachuting into remote locations when needed and finding our way back, No problem.
Working Florida's Treasure Coast during a Hurricane is defiantly on the list.
With documented wreck locations with beach scatter patterns including GPS coordinates below, the sky's pretty much the limit on this one when it comes to working prime locations on the beach during a storm.
Lost Treasure Hunter has a near-complete library of all documented shipwrecks and their registered cargo on the planet.
The Spanish Fleet of 1715 that went down in this area was well documented. The 11 ships registered cargo records show that there were over 14,000,000 Pesos of precious metals, emeralds, and jewelry that were lost in the storm, along with almost a thousand lives.
There is a 60 mile stretch of the Atlantic coastline from St. Lucie Inlet to the Sebastian Inlet that still produces coins and other artifacts on a daily basis during the right tide cycle.
Any items found will be donated to the The 1715 Fleet Society. Please see their website at www.1715fleetsociety.com/
This is the ideal cut to work during and after a storm.
We have sites and leads all over the world worth exploring and investigating but, one in particular that has haunted me for years is a site off of the California Coast in the Santa Barbara area that produces old coins, gold/silver jewelry and Air Force medals and pins as well as brass nails from a shipwreck only during a major storm during a negative low tide. We will try to unravel that mystery a
One of the major advantages a person has using today's technologies with regards to finding an ore vein from an abandoned mine is that all one has to do is to locate a mine shaft that they can walk above (up to 200 feet below them) and then scan the area from the shaft opening to the end of the mine.
If one was to locate a new vein or the main vein, an educated decision can be made to stake a new mining claim and re-support sections of the original mine up to where the vein was lost or to go in from a completely different angle or location.
More than likely a gossan was originally exposed and worked. Using crude tools of the day and dim light, the probability that the ore vein-let was not followed correctly is great.
This show will of course be edited to cram in as much of the story as possible but it will not be contrived or falsified.
We either find what were looking for or we don't.
Lost Treasure Hunter doesn't plan on keeping anything that is found, so we don't care either way.
Again, our goal is to find the truth, treasure or both.
We will also be interacting with the Viewer by way of Facebook and Twitter, etc.
We will take on challenges from small towns across America (and the world) that are trying to put closure to a Lost Treasure or Legend. Anything found that is not a private contract will go to that town's local or city museum or The Smithsonian.
Let the Adventure Begin And happy hunting!
JP GRILLO
Lost Treasure Hunter is a division of Environmental Restoration & Recovery LLC. Las Vegas NV.
(661) 505-5011
Redondo Beach CA (310) 465-8205
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