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To: long-gone who wrote (81185)	1/27/2002 1:50:39 PM
From: c.hinton	Respond to of 116759

you are right but I dont know how to make those calculations.

To: long-gone who wrote (81185)	1/27/2002 3:35:50 PM
From: E. Charters	Respond to of 116759

The Quechua(sp) people of the Inca ruler before F. Pizarro in Peru, produced 7,000,000 ounces per year (210 tons) for an indefinite period, perhaps 100's of years. the population of 12 million people worked in the placer gold fields of Peru for 3 months per year by law. The penalty for refusing to work was death. (There are no lazy Indians left in Peru.) This would be the equivalent of 4200 tons production in the US per year. When Pizarro ransomed their leader, Athualpa for gold, the Peruvians took most of their gold mined and hid it in the mountains. They used 100's of thousands of people to do this and had excellent roads and bridges, so they could get quite a lot of it away in a short time. Consider 100 years of Peruvian mining and you have 20,000 tons of gold hidden in the mountains of Peru. (300 billion dollars CDN) In the 20th century modern searchers found a whole abandoned city on a mountain top in Peru, carved in stone. It had been occupied until the late 19th century by holdouts. There has to be something to this gold secret. Don't think this stuff would be easy to find. The Peruvian placers themselves were cut out of stone on what we would call cliffs, up to 60 degree mountain faces, perhaps 12 to 15 thousand feet above sea level. They carried heavy loads up mountains to 20,000 feet to peform human sacrifice. Where ever these caves of gold are, you can bet they are hard to get to in the extreme and rather well hid to boot. I was in the Kootenays one time and turned into a valley that had a new logging road. In the valley was a pyramidal mountain that rose perhaps 5,000 feet off the valley floor. Half way up the tree line stopped and a smooth rock face of perhaps 60 degrees continued to the peak. Half way up that smooth rock face was a hole, an adit of an old silver mine, that was not in any record or local legend, as we found out. (There are pehaps 1650 small silver mines in the Pac NW and we looked at every thing written on them.). What lengths the miners of long ago in this country went to to find silver, or gold is stagerring, and how they could even divine its presence way up that peak is beyond me. You could only marvel at it. It amounts to a hell of a lot more than you can get people to do today. Our government and our culture seems to put roadblocks int he way of people that want to invest sweat equity in their future. EC<:-}