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Lost Mines, Caves and Tunnels

Lost Caves and Tunnels in the UK

Plate I from Joseph Beldam's book The Origins and Use of the Royston Cave, 1884

The Royston Cave - A lost cave rediscovered

International Lost Mines, Caves and Tunnels

 

Australia

  Lasseter's Reef Gold Deposit, reportedly somewhere near the Northern Territory/Western Australian border

Canada

Ed Mullard's Lost Tunnel of Leechtown, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. Rumours of a lost Spanish Monastery, Gold bars, an ancient Spanish bronze cannon in a swamp miles from sea, does the lost cave still exist?

Ed Mullard's Lost Tunnel of Leechtown, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. Rumours of a lost Spanish Monastery, Gold bars, an ancient Spanish bronze cannon in a swamp miles from sea, does the lost cave still exist?
The Lost Lemon Gold Mine, Alberta, Canada (somewhere near Coleman)

United States of America

The Lost Dutchman Gold Mine

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