New Mexico millionaire’s $1m treasure chest hidden in Rocky Mountains found

Tribune Web Desk
Chandigarh, June 8

A chest filled with gold, jewels and different valuables value over $1m has been discovered within the Rocky Mountains in North America, bringing to an finish a decade-long hunt for the treasure chest, the BBC reported on Monday.

Antiques collector Forrest Fenn hid the treasure chest within the wilderness over a decade in the past and began a treasure hunt, publishing a sequence of clues to the treasure’s location on-line and in a 24-line poem that was revealed in his 2010 autobiography ‘The Thrill of the Chase’.

It has since drawn a number of journey seekers, a number of of them even quitting their jobs, the BBC report mentioned. At least 4 individuals have died making an attempt to hunt the hidden treasure.

That hunt has now come to an end—Fenn, an 89-year-old millionaire from New Mexico, mentioned a person from “back East” has lastly discovered the treasure chest.

“It was under a canopy of stars in the lush, forested vegetation of the Rocky Mountains and had not moved from the spot where I hid it more than 10 years ago,” a press release on his web site reads.

“I do not know the person who found it, but the poem in my book led him to the precise spot. I congratulate the thousands of people who participated in the search and hope they will continue to be drawn by the promise of other discoveries. So the search is over. Look for more information and photos in the coming days,” the assertion says.

The BBC report additionally quoted Fenn as having instructed his native paper, the Santa Fe New Mexican, that the person who discovered the treasure didn’t need his title to be launched however had confirmed the discover by sending over {a photograph}.

Fenn mentioned the 9-kg chest contained uncommon gold cash, vintage jewelry, pre-Columbian animal figures, prehistoric hammered gold ‘mirrors’ and historical Chinese faces carved from jade, BBC mentioned.