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AU Recovery Info What is this Treasure? First a little history: During the lead up to World War II, the Japanese had long since decided that they wanted to control Asia principally as well as Australia and what is now referred to as Oceana. In discussions with the Hitler regime they decided to collaborate. With Hitler and his allies aiming to control Europe, Russia and Africa while the Japanese controlled Asia, they would have a large percentage of the planet all sown up in a dictatorial fascist regime, yeah sure – the well laid plans of mice and men! As far back as the 1800’s, the Japanese had realized that the key to controlling anything, especially if that ‘control’ was in the aftermath of a global war, would be in economic superiority. This led the Japanese to start amassing valuable books, manuscripts and cultural treasures in 1895 and as much gold bullion and other precious artifacts as they could possibly lay their hands on in the years leading up to 1945. They also realized that they would need to ‘store’ this booty somewhere ‘safe’ which led them to Indonesia and the Philippines in particular, for which they had long term post-war plans. It was not enough to just ‘store’ the plunder. The Japanese were much too dedicated to the ‘survival’ of such a huge operation and such wealth. To let anyone else just walk in and take it easily was not an option. No, the Japanese decided to bury the treasure and bury it like no-one has ever done before or since. Now where you or I might just seek out a remote spot, dig a hole and put our ‘treasure’ in the hole and cover it up again, the Japanese went light years beyond that – recently, surviving Japanese high ranking military personnel said that when this treasure was buried the members of the Japanese Royal Family, who were ultimately in charge of this operation, expected that it would take more than 100 years to recover the enormous amounts of plunder from the underground bunkers and reinforced tunnel complexes it had been placed in! Engineering these deep vaults was not a problem. The Japanese engineering teams arrived in the Philippines no later than 1926. The Japanese had been tunneling and mining for a thousand years and many of the soldiers were experienced miners. They also enlisted the help of German tunneling, civil engineering and mining experts and combined this with elaborate tunnel systems already dug by the Spanish during their four century colonial rule of the Philippines. All of these activities complemented other expertise such as the development of extremely hard silica cement and ceramics. By ‘camouflaging’ the deposit sites in combination with the use of a variety of deadly booby traps, a great number of the deposit sites have remained untouched. All in all, they developed plans to bury their treasure like it had never been done before and even the ‘plans’ of where the treasure is buried is a cryptographers nightmare as they are so elaborate and almost indecipherable! This master plan was initiated in the early 1900’s with the initial activities commencing in the 1920’s and came to a head in 1942/43 when the actual treasure was being shipped, often in disguised ships with green crosses painted on their sides masquerading as hospital ships. The vast majority of the plunder was shipped to the Philippines where it was sorted and some of it sent on to Japan. When the Americans finally solved their torpedo problems and the submarine blockade north of the Philippines effectively ensured the loss of many Japanese cargo vessels trying to make it through to Japan, the majority of the treasure was distributed to various military units in the Philippines who became responsible for burying it, under direct supervision of the Royal Family members. The advancing Allied troops eventually routed the Japanese and they fled from these Asian countries leaving many thousands of tonnes of gold bullion and precious artifacts buried deep in complex tunnelled excavations. Some of this treasure has already been located and recovered. Think of the late President Marcos of the Philippines, who recovered tonnes of gold bullion to fund his lavish lifestyle. However, there are many more tonnes of treasure still to be recovered in many locations in the Philippines and select other countries. The usual location for a Japanese treasure trove was in a site with good landmarks that would likely never change, near a Japanese garrison, military hospital, P.O.W. camp, or near a seaport or airfield. Our project location matches with most of this criteria! You can do your own research on this history very easily. While there are a number of books and authors who have written on the subject, I would highly recommend that you obtain a copy of the book “Gold Warriors (The covert history of Yamashita’s Gold)” by Sterling and Peggy Seagrave and published by Bowstring Books (www.bowstring.net) with ISBN 0-9724146-0-6. A version is available with two compact discs which contain a lot of information not published in the book. Google will also reveal many fascinating websites... try Yamashita's Gold as a start. About our project: Our recovery project has been ‘alive’ for over six years. The first four years were spent locating and identifying the various deposit sites, conducting research, planning the recovery and establishing the necessary agreements with the property owners and developer. The government and property owners will receive approximately 50% of what we recover but, as we are looking at more than ten tonnes of gold bullion, our share will be substantial. In late 2004 and early 2005 the first ‘hole’ was dug. This hole went down 91 feet and served to prove that we had the expertise and the right team to actually excavate the site. While we did not get down to a possible bullion chamber, we found a large amount of ‘wood’ – cut off trunks of large local trees – with the upper portion starting at about 65 feet below the surface, which we subsequently determined to be markers directing us towards the main deposit chamber further to the north. In early 2005, a comprehensive locating and mapping program was performed to correlate our sub-surface anomaly findings. During the last quarter of 2005, extensive sub-surface exploration was conducted in the area utilizing a rotary drill to verify we had indeed found the original Japanese excavation. As a result of these activities, in 2006, we shifted our focus about 100 feet further to the north. In 2006, we acquired a high-tech, passive, electromagnetic sub-surface imaging system which has helped enormously but it’s Achilles Heel is with data interpretation using first generation software and in providing accurate depths. This EM Imaging System cost us $25,000 USD and the next step up is around the $100,000 mark, a significant increase. Using the EM Imaging System we then located a more likely position to dig and by utilizing our drilling rig, we were able to recover gold flakes in the drill discharge debris from this current ‘hot spot’, a few months ago.  Not only is there a treasure cache here but additional sub-surface imaging and locating activities have led us to conclude that it also appears to be the start of a long descending passageway, wide enough to allow military trucks to drive through, running some 530 feet in length and turning 180 degrees back into the northerly end of the original Japanese excavation.  We have been working in this current location since early 2007 and have brought up over 600 Japanese ‘markers’… far more than in any other excavation or location. These markers were specifically placed in the excavations when the Japanese were backfilling their excavations to provide directions to their countrymen as to exactly where the treasure is placed, or as warnings for booby traps. The markers are formed in specific shapes or with markings inscribed on them in Japanese Kangi or signs . As an example, several markers have ‘eyes’ carved in them, which ‘look’ down, indicating that we need to go deeper, while others indicate - treasure under object / big volume / center over object / silver sign / gold sign, etc., etc., etc.   We are now in the ‘black sand layer’ which means we are close to the treasure. The ‘sand layer’ is a very clever and cunning device to try and stop anyone getting to the treasure. To get a good idea of what a sand trap can do, imagine digging a large funnel shaped hole 20 to 30 meters deep and of similar diameter at the surface, depositing your treasure at the bottom and then filling the hole with very fine, soft sand. Then throw in some deadly glass cyanide vials and maybe some powdered poison at various levels in the sand. Put a layer of clay on top of the sand to stop the ground water from leaching the poison powder out and embed a thick layer of rocks, boulders and unobtrusive signs or markers (that blend in with the rock if the diggers do not know what they are looking for) in more clay above that with enough topsoil covering the site to ensure that the area looks normal to the enemy or even just illiterate farmers.  Now, some 60 years later, starting at the top, dig a 4 meter square hole straight down. It is fairly easy going through the topsoil but a lot harder when you get down 15 feet to the rock layer. Some of those rocks literally weigh a ton and the clay really bonds them together. Also the level of the ground water table is just above the clay ensuring that the diggers have to contend with the water as well.  When you hit the sand layer, it just keeps collapsing into your excavation. Take out one shovel of water and sand and two more shovel fulls collapse into the hole. Eventually, enough sand collapses from under the walls undermining the rock layer above which causes the rock and clay to collapse into the excavation as well, killing the workers (if they do not break a cyanide vial first). The poison powder has lost a lot of its potency over the years but can still cause the workers skin to become extremely irritated. All in all, a very effective means of dissuading low budget groups from recovering your treasure. I am sure by now that you will start to understand not only the sheer amount of effort used to create these treasure caches but also the incredible feats of engineering they represent as well. At the present time, we have reached the sand layer. Greg, our ‘tracker’, who knows how to recognize and read the signs and markings which have been recovered from the excavation to date, has had a lot of experience of this sort of activity and has been engaged on several successful recovery operations previously, having been trained on recovery teams of the former President Marcos. Greg believes that we are within 26 feet of the first ‘target’. Our sub-surface imaging and locating activities also corroborate this. Our simple problem is that we have run out of funds and cannot continue. The solution - we need to raise more funds. To date, virtually all of our excavating activities have been done by hand. We have not had the funds to purchase heavy earthmoving equipment or indeed to lease it, not an altogether easy task where we are located. The onsite management team believes in working smart as well as hard and we have found that the targets under the initial recovery excavation and the work conducted in 2006 to be viable but the bullion is buried too deep for our current infrastructure to allow us to recover quickly and without a great deal of expense. However, we have concluded that those targets are likely easier, and far less expensive, to access through the descending tunnel system, a major factor for consideration with our present financial condition. If this is something that you would feel comfortable in participating ie. loaning funds, your next step would be to download and sign electronically this Non Disclosure Form. Then send the signed copy to goldbull2@safe-mail.net Once we have received your completed ND document, we will then send you the URL of the main site where further information, including all updates from the project site, projected returns and funding information will be found. We have the location and we have the Team. Our project Management Team includes a Canadian with a heap of relevant expertise who has made it his life’s work over the last seven years to make this project a resounding success. He is married to a local woman and they have a young son. His business associate and the Project Site Supervisor is a US born and trained gold mining engineer, dedicated to our success. The excavation and recovery team consists of handpicked, honest, hard working, smart, resourceful and dedicated men, all working together for the success of the project. We have also put into place the infrastructure needed for when the bullion is brought up out of the ground – it has been said the digging is the easy part! This includes a discreet temporary storage facility, a highly trained security team that are second to none, a local assay and refining facility, transport, large volume precious metal buyers and much more. I have been involved with the project for almost two years and have raised the bulk of the finance for the project via the internet. My strengths are solving problems in the real world. I find this project fascinating and thoroughly absorbing, not to mention a unique challenge. I also have a lot of my own funds invested, as do all members of the project. As well as being a bona-fide way of acquiring a great return on our investments, the project will also enable us to give back to the locals, who do not enjoy the benefits of a lot of what we, in the 'Western World', take for granted - good health care, dental care, education, opportunities to create their own business etc etc - they may also have lost loved ones all those years ago and although helping financially will never bring their loves ones back, it can improve their lives now. Investors are welcome to visit the dig site and meet the onsite management team and crew. Naturally this has to be done by arrangement and with discretion. Though we all subscribe to an honest open approach, we must protect our assets, like any successful business would. Thank you for taking the time to read this far and I do hope to hear from you soon in terms of your request for further information. "Joey" - Project Fundraiser |