Somewhere in Quezon.

[Dale Selarom]

Negative or positive?

 

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Negative....

 

[renantagum30]

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[Dale Selarom]

Is it man made or natural formation? Leaves on the powderized item.

 

[Dale Selarom]

Main entrance

 

[Kilonova3]

that stone is a natural formation called a "fossil". maybe a hundred million years ago some leaves got buried and then turned to stone over time. its a natural process called "fossilization".

did you make that entrance so perfectly square like that or did you find it that way?

 

[Dale Selarom]

We found it that way sir.

The image of the stone stirs me a lot. I know it’s a fossil but the location of the site is higher than the sea level. It’s made of sand I think..


As you can see. When it’s dry, looks like sand with a mixture of cement.

 

[Kilonova3]

yea but it could be just a younger fossil made of some kind of sand stone... but im not sure. take it to a lab and get it tested. maybe you can find a lab that could test that for a 1000 pesos or less. but in my opinion that's not cement.

how much of that square entrance was already visible before you started excavating it?

 

[Dale Selarom]

Before we get inside.

 

[Kilonova3]

Before we get inside.

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you said you found the tunnel that way but here i see just normal looking section of the excavated hole... to my eyes it doesn't look that promising to tell you honestly. just my opinion

 

[Dale Selarom]

We pulled out the big rock and we found that tunnel.

 

[Dale Selarom]

It’s ok sir. Bottomline is I think this would be my stress reliever for now.. cheers...

 

[Dale Selarom]

Updated pics as of today.

 

[Dale Selarom]

Look those floorings.

 

[Tom_in_CA]

show us some treasures ! Because, of necessity, every cave has to have a treasure. Right ?

 

[Dale Selarom]

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

"The Philippines holds the world’s second largest gold reserves, and applications from foreign mining firms are piling up to tap that plus a list of other metals that basically just sit under the ground now. Mining made up just 0.72 of the impoverished Southeast Asian country’s economy in 2012 as gold production fell back 50% to 15,762 tons that year. Access to the $1.4 trillion Philippine mining sector, rich also in copper and nickel, has been mired since the 1980s in klutzy laws, environmental battles and land rights issues. It may be on its way out of the pit this year."

https://www.forbes.com/sites/ralphjennings/2015/04/05/trillion-dollar-goldmine-for-philippine-economy-emerging-from-murky-pit/#970b8c825cf7

 

[Tom_in_CA]

"The Philippines holds the world’s second largest gold reserves....

Which country holds the "first" largest gold reserves? Because if the "size of gold reserves" equates to: "the more gold hidden in caves", then I would rather hunt the country that ranks # 1.

However, I suspect that the size of the governments gold reserves does *not* automatically equate to "the most gold hidden in the ground". I might be wrong. But ... just sayin' ... that statement #1 does not necessarily equate to statement #2.

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

It is talking about unmined raw gold, not gold buried in tunnels or caves or gold reserves. Philippines has a lot of gold in the ground.

 

[Tom_in_CA]

It is talking about unmined raw gold, not gold buried in tunnels or caves or gold reserves. Philippines has a lot of gold in the ground.

ok. Good info. for gold prospecting end of the hobby (nuggets, pan, sluice, etc...).