Interesting post on a gold mining forum. This guy was sweeping with a metal detector several hundred yards from an old mining camp when he got a strong signal. He dug up this old can filled with nuggets, clearly someone's old stash. It was likely buried away from camp for safe keeping, and it was, since it wasn't found again for over a hundred and some odd years. Too safe, clearly.

One wonders why the miner never came back to claim the treasure.