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    Has Lasseter’s Reef been found?

    Dec 29, 2021 2 minutes
    STORY BY KRISTIN LEE
    PHOTOGRAPHY BY
    BILL DECARLI

    VER SINCE EARLY 20th-century gold prospector Harold Bell Lasseter publicly and vaguely claimed that an enormous gold-bearing quartz reef existed of the MacDonnell Ranges in Central Australia, hundreds of treasure hunters have scoured the area in vain. Now Australian explorer Bill Decarli believes he’s found the fabled gold deposit, to of the ranges near the Northern Territory–Queensland border.

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