← Club 49 Prospecting, the free gold & adventure map of the American West

The Mountain of Lost Silver: Roraima

Documented folklore from the Club 49 map, told straight and sourced.

The story

The great tabletop mountain where Venezuela, Brazil and Guyana meet was, to the Pemon people, the stump of a mighty tree felled by a trickster god, and to Victorian Europe it was the “lost world” of Conan Doyle’s novel, a plateau where prehistoric life might survive. The truth is nearly as strange: a two-billion-year-old sandstone island in the sky, with its own carnivorous plants and species found nowhere else, and waterfalls that fall off the edge into cloud. You can trek up it.

The ground it haunts

Mount Roraima (Venezuela / Brazil / Guyana). Source: The real “Lost World” plateau, deep in Pemon tradition. The Club 49 map pins this legend at its documented country, beside the real mines, active claims, land status and modeled honey holes of the same ground. Open the free map and go stand in the story.

See every spot on the free map →
Club 49 Prospecting is a free members map: 872 ranked honey holes, 20,000+ documented gold sites, stocked fishing waters, foraging sightings, gems, springs and the lore, across the American West. Free forever. club49.app