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A TREASURE chest loaded with booty worth more than $1million has been found in the Rocky Mountains. Thousands of people have tried to find the bronze chest, buried in the wilderness more than a decade ago by art dealer and collector Forrest Fenn. Millionaire
Fenn, now 89, revealed he had hidden the chest in his
2010 memoir
The Thrill of the Chase.
In it, he dropped clues as to its whereabouts in a cryptic, 24line poem.
He said the treasure trove includes rare gold coins and gold nuggets, pre-colombian animal figures, prehistoric “mirrors” of gold, ancient Chinese faces carved from jade and antique jewellery. Fenn said a man from “back East” located the chest a few days ago. He said: “It had not moved from the spot where I hid it more than 10 years ago.
“I do not know the person who found it, but the poem in my book led him to the precise spot.”
At least five people have died trying to track down the chest.
The Rockies, as the mountain range is also known, stretches a massive 1,865 miles from British Columbia in western Canada to New Mexico, US. According to a map in Fenn’s book, the chest was located somewhere in the mountains between Montana, Wyoming, Colorado and New Mexico.
Fenn, who lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, came up with the idea when he was diagnosed with cancer in 1988. He said he hid the treasure as a way to tempt people to get into an adventure for riches.