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Treasure chest hidden in the Rocky Mountains for a decade has been found

It was the ultimate treasure hunt. A bronze chest filled with more than $1 million worth of gold, jewels and other valuables was hidden in the Rocky Mountains by an antiquities collector over a decade ago. The collector, Forrest Fenn, posted clues to the treasure’s location online and in a poem he published in his 2010 biography, sending hundreds of thousands of treasure seekers deep into the mountains on a search for the ultimate prize.

This week, Fenn announced that someone from “back east” had finally located the treasure. “It was under a canopy of stars in the lush, forested vegetation of the Rocky Mountains and had not moved from the spot where I hid it more than 10 years ago,” he said in