Excavating that magnitude of gold is certainly no small squeeze on the average paycheck. Additionally, the questions from the regulatory agencies when 7t of gold shows up on the market is certainly something worth considering. Finally, the security of keeping the whole operation under wraps while you excavate any of this yourself? Headaches upon headaches.
> He suspects the agency conducted a clandestine, overnight dig between the first and second days of the court-authorized excavation, found the gold, and spirited it away.
If his claim is true and it took the government only one day and one night to extract 7 tons of gold, then it couldn't have been very deep. He should have dug some of it up. As it stands, this guy has no proof that any gold ever existed at all. He never even laid eyes on the supposed gold.
And if the government had excavators, an army of trucks and possible other machinery, as the article suggests, then I don't see why they wouldn't have been able to extract 7 tons of gold in one night. And a lone treasure hunter may not have access to such resources.