Lost mines and buried treasure

California 24

• Bloody Springs scattered coin — California · Lost mine or treasure
• J.C. Brown and the lost cave of gold (Mount Shasta) — California · Lost mine or treasure
• Joaquin Murrieta’s caches — California · Lost mine or treasure
• Kokoweef’s river of gold — California · Lost mine or treasure
• Pegleg Smith’s lost black gold — California · Lost mine or treasure
• Rattlesnake Dick's lost loot — California · Lost mine or treasure
• Rattlesnake Dick’s lost express loot — California · Lost mine or treasure
• Spanish lost workings (northern mines) — California · Lost mine or treasure
• The Cahuenga Pass treasure — California · Lost mine or treasure
• The Clear Creek coin wagon — California · Lost mine or treasure
• The Fricot Nugget (found 1865) — California · Lost mine or treasure
• The Lost Cabin Mine (Trinity Alps) — California · Lost mine or treasure
• The Lost Cement Mine — California · Lost mine or treasure
• The Lost Dutch Oven mine — California · Lost mine or treasure
• The Lost Gold Lake (Stoddard) — California · Lost mine or treasure
• The Lost Gunsight lode — California · Lost mine or treasure
• The Lost Ship of the Desert — California · Lost mine or treasure
• The Mojave Nugget (found 1977) — California · Lost mine or treasure
• The Owens Lake bullion — California · Lost mine or treasure
• The Poker Flat cache — California · Lost mine or treasure
• The Ruggles brothers' strongbox — California · Lost mine or treasure
• The Saddle Ridge Hoard (found 2014) — California · Lost mine or treasure
• Tiburcio Vasquez’s hideout loot — California · Lost mine or treasure
• Tragedy Spring cached gold — California · Lost mine or treasure

United Kingdom 8

• King John’s Lost Treasure — United Kingdom · Lost mine or treasure
• Sutton Hoo — United Kingdom · Lost mine or treasure
• The Cuerdale Hoard — United Kingdom · Lost mine or treasure
• The Galloway Hoard — United Kingdom · Lost mine or treasure
• The Lewis Chessmen — United Kingdom · Lost mine or treasure
• The Skaill Hoard — United Kingdom · Lost mine or treasure
• The St Ninian’s Isle Treasure — United Kingdom · Lost mine or treasure
• The Staffordshire Hoard — United Kingdom · Lost mine or treasure

Arizona 4

• The Lost Adams Diggings (Arizona claim) — Arizona · Lost mine or treasure
• The Lost Dutchman mine — Arizona · Lost mine or treasure
• The Peralta stones — Arizona · Lost mine or treasure
• The Planchas de Plata — Arizona · Lost mine or treasure

Oregon 4

• The Blue Bucket Mine — Oregon · Lost mine or treasure
• The Bohemia district and Bohemia Johnson — Oregon · Lost mine or treasure
• The Lost Blue Bucket Mine — Oregon · Lost mine or treasure
• The Neahkahnie treasure and the beeswax wreck — Oregon · Lost mine or treasure

Virginia 4

• The Beale ciphers — Virginia · Lost mine or treasure
• The Clover Hill Pits — Virginia · Lost mine or treasure
• The Greenwood gold mine — Virginia · Lost mine or treasure
• The Tredegar Iron Works — Virginia · Lost mine or treasure

Colorado 3

• The Fenn treasure — Colorado · Lost mine or treasure
• The Matchless Mine and Baby Doe — Colorado · Lost mine or treasure
• Treasure Mountain and the French gold — Colorado · Lost mine or treasure

Florida 3

• The 1715 Treasure Fleet and the Treasure Coast — Florida · Lost mine or treasure
• The 1733 Spanish Fleet of the Keys — Florida · Lost mine or treasure
• The Atocha — Florida · Lost mine or treasure

Idaho 3

• Plummer road-agent caches, Lewiston country — Idaho · Lost mine or treasure
• The Bunker Hill smelter — Idaho · Lost mine or treasure
• The Wheelbarrow Mine — Idaho · Lost mine or treasure

Nevada 3

• Ted Binion’s buried silver (found 1999) — Nevada · Lost mine or treasure
• The Lost Breyfogle ledge — Nevada · Lost mine or treasure
• The Lost Sheepherder mine — Nevada · Lost mine or treasure

New Mexico 3

• The Chino mine — New Mexico · Lost mine or treasure
• The Lost Adams Diggings (New Mexico claim) — New Mexico · Lost mine or treasure
• Victorio Peak — New Mexico · Lost mine or treasure

Wyoming 3

• Almy — Wyoming · Lost mine or treasure
• The Ferris-Haggarty mine — Wyoming · Lost mine or treasure
• The Lost Cabin Mine — Wyoming · Lost mine or treasure

Australia 2

• Coober Pedy — Australia · Lost mine or treasure
• Lasseter’s Reef — Australia · Lost mine or treasure

Illinois 2

• Galena, the lead city — Illinois · Lost mine or treasure
• Rosiclare and the Illinois fluorspar — Illinois · Lost mine or treasure

Iowa 2

• Julien Dubuque and the Iowa lead — Iowa · Lost mine or treasure
• The Keokuk geode beds — Iowa · Lost mine or treasure

Kentucky 2

• Blue Heron, Mine 18 — Kentucky · Lost mine or treasure
• The lost Swift Silver Mine — Kentucky · Lost mine or treasure

Montana 2

• The Berkeley Pit — Montana · Lost mine or treasure
• The sheriff who robbed his own roads — Montana · Lost mine or treasure

New York 2

• Captain Kidd’s treasure, Gardiners Island — New York · Lost mine or treasure
• The Loomis Gang loot — New York · Lost mine or treasure

Oklahoma 2

• Cardin — Oklahoma · Lost mine or treasure
• The Spanish gold of the Wichitas — Oklahoma · Lost mine or treasure

Philippines 2

• The Yamashita treasure — Philippines · Lost mine or treasure
• Yamashita’s gold — Philippines · Lost mine or treasure

Russia 2

• The Amber Room — Russia · Lost mine or treasure
• The Ruskeala marble quarry — Russia · Lost mine or treasure

Texas 2

• The Singer gold of Padre Island — Texas · Lost mine or treasure
• The lost San Saba mine, the Bowie mine — Texas · Lost mine or treasure

Utah 2

• Montezuma treasure at Kanab — Utah · Lost mine or treasure
• The Lost Rhoades mines — Utah · Lost mine or treasure

Washington DC 2

• The Hope Diamond and its curse — Washington DC · Lost mine or treasure
• The gold mine in Rock Creek Park — Washington DC · Lost mine or treasure

West Virginia 2

• Kay Moor — West Virginia · Lost mine or treasure
• Nuttallburg — West Virginia · Lost mine or treasure

Alabama 1

• The Banner Mine — Alabama · Lost mine or treasure

Alaska 1

• The Cape Nome discovery sites — Alaska · Lost mine or treasure

Alberta 1

• The Lost Lemon Mine — Alberta · Lost mine or treasure

Arkansas 1

• The Crater of Diamonds — Arkansas · Lost mine or treasure

Austria 1

• The Nibelung hoard of Vienna: the Habsburg treasures — Austria · Lost mine or treasure

Brazil 1

• Serra Pelada — Brazil · Lost mine or treasure

Bulgaria 1

• The Panagyurishte treasure — Bulgaria · Lost mine or treasure

Czechia 1

• The Nazi gold train — Czechia · Lost mine or treasure

Delaware 1

• The Cape Henlopen pirate treasure — Delaware · Lost mine or treasure

Ecuador 1

• The treasure of Llanganates — Ecuador · Lost mine or treasure

Finland 1

• Aarnivalkea, the fox fires — Finland · Lost mine or treasure

France 1

• The Rhinegold of the Nibelungs — France · Lost mine or treasure

Georgia 1

• The lost Confederate treasury — Georgia · Lost mine or treasure

Greece 1

• Priam’s Treasure — Greece · Lost mine or treasure

India 1

• The Padmanabhaswamy treasure — India · Lost mine or treasure

Ireland 1

• The Derrynaflan and Ardagh hoards — Ireland · Lost mine or treasure

Kansas 1

• Quivira, the city Coronado crossed Kansas for — Kansas · Lost mine or treasure

Louisiana 1

• Jean Lafitte’s treasure — Louisiana · Lost mine or treasure

Maine 1

• The treasure of Jewell Island — Maine · Lost mine or treasure

Mongolia 1

• The tomb of Genghis Khan — Mongolia · Lost mine or treasure

Namibia 1

• The Bom Jesus and the Skeleton Coast — Namibia · Lost mine or treasure

New Brunswick 1

• Oak Island and the Money Pit — New Brunswick · Lost mine or treasure

North Carolina 1

• Reed Gold Mine, where it started — North Carolina · Lost mine or treasure

North Dakota 1

• The Lynch Knife River flint quarry — North Dakota · Lost mine or treasure

Paraguay 1

• The lost treasure of Lopez — Paraguay · Lost mine or treasure

Pennsylvania 1

• Marcus Hook, the pirate haven — Pennsylvania · Lost mine or treasure

Peru 1

• Paititi, the last Inca refuge — Peru · Lost mine or treasure

Romania 1

• Sarmizegetusa and the Dacian gold — Romania · Lost mine or treasure

Serbia 1

• Rosia Montana and the Apuseni gold — Serbia · Lost mine or treasure

South Africa 1

• The Vredefort Dome — South Africa · Lost mine or treasure

Spain 1

• The Treasure of Guarrazar — Spain · Lost mine or treasure

Sweden 1

• The Spillings Hoard — Sweden · Lost mine or treasure

Tennessee 1

• Coker Creek gold — Tennessee · Lost mine or treasure

Ukraine 1

• The Scythian gold — Ukraine · Lost mine or treasure

Washington 1

• The Bodie Mine, Okanogan County — Washington · Lost mine or treasure

Yukon 1

• Bonanza Creek and the Klondike — Yukon · Lost mine or treasure