I did some research on this subject and dug up all kinds of articles and references.
Apparantly, the military bulldozed and scooped and dynamited the area for days in an attempt to find the cavern based on Jones testimony and markings they found on the boulder and the burnt tree as Jones had described, but to no avail. Also, using sophisticated instruments, a scientific research team later in 1975 tried to locate the cavern. The cavern was found, but no gold or silver - only silt and mud. They also were not able to measure any instances of metallic objects except water pipes, let alone gold or silver using new sophisticated electrical resistance measuring devices that is still in use to this day because of its effectiveness.
A squirrel hunter who had been hunting in the area 40 years also witnessed the military using bulldozers to once again try and find the gold. Sounds to me like it has already been found, if it existed at all. All in all, there were more than 7 known large-scale attempts at finding this alledged treasure-hoard. And there may have been some attempts by the military under cloak to recover this alledged "lost treasure."
The original gold "sample" that Jones was purported to have brought out of the cavern and sold for $800 and some odd dollars, was not a piece of gold bar at all, but rather gold encrusted "rock." It may very well be that Jones concocted the story in the hopes of finding a vein of gold based on his discovery of finding the gold encrusted rock in the underground cavern.
Posted on: September 17, 2012, 08:53:17 AM
The military bulldozed, dynamited and scooped a large area down to 32 feet in the first attempt.
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