There were five springs in total. Perfectly even, dull steel color. The diameter of each is just over 1 millimeter. Length - from 3 to 7 millimeters. Moreover, in appearance they were elements of some kind of technical design
A resident of the Tula region, Mikhail Efimovich KOSHMAN, although he is a pensioner, every summer he travels with a team to the gold mines in Chukotka. It is quite legal by concluding an agreement with a company that has a license to mine gold in those places. Mikhail Efimovich likes this kind of work. First, earnings are a good addition to your pension.
Secondly, the former geologist, who worked in those regions for 21 years, can no longer live without the North, where he is drawn like a magnet. But he did not come to our editorial office to talk about the beauties of Chukotka at all. Mikhail Efimovich brought mysterious artifacts that he discovered during his next trip. He, I repeat, a professional geologist, could not explain their origin.
There are no fish here
- We worked 150 kilometers from Bilibin (the capital of the gold-bearing region "Golden Kolyma" - Ed.) On the site "Kochkarny", - says Mikhail Efimovich. - This time we got a strange stream. I have been there before and always paid attention to the fact that there is absolutely no fish in it - the situation for Chukotka is absurd. And maybe for this, or maybe for another reason, reindeer herders never roam on it. But the environment for gold mining here is pretty standard. In the hills there are quartz veins, once highly saturated with gold. For thousands of years, numerous streams have washed out precious metals from them. And gold particles settled along the bottom along with silt and other debris that fell into the stream, for example, during a flood. Over time, the veins became impoverished, and every year less and less precious sand got into the sedimentary material. As a result, in the stream,to get to the gold, you have to remove several layers of bottom sediments. And by how thick this layer will be, a specialist can easily determine how long it has accumulated. In other words, how many years ago gold stopped getting here.
The technology is simple: the prospectors choose a suitable section of the stream and use a bulldozer to remove layer by layer, reaching the gold bearing. Then the bottom is washed out with a hydraulic gun, and then the process of washing the sand and separating precious metals from it is not much different from what is shown in films about the first gold diggers.
Ten thousand years underground
This time, a layer about 5.5 meters thick was removed. And this, according to Koshman, corresponds to the fact that it accumulated here from 10 to 40 thousand years, depending on changing natural conditions. Other geologists with whom Komsomolskaya Pravda consulted confirmed this.
- The stream turned out to be rich, - continues Mikhail Efimovich, - our artel even exceeded the norm. But twice in a tray of golden sand, I found strange springs. Imagine, they lay in a layer of sand that was brought here at least ten thousand years ago! And they were buried under more than five meters of silt and clay.
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There were five springs in total. Perfectly even, dull steel color. The diameter of each is just over 1 millimeter. Length - from 3 to 7 millimeters. Moreover, in appearance they were elements of some kind of technical design.
And people have never lived here
In the terminology of ufologists, such things are the so-called "paleo artifacts". That is, objects of technogenic origin found during excavations or in other situations in the ancient layers of the soil, where they could have gotten much earlier than human civilization appeared. On this basis, many ufologists argue: either people are not the first intelligent inhabitants of the Earth, or aliens have visited our planet.
Among the finds, there are many unusual things: here and all kinds of bolts, nuts, petrified cylinders, chains. There were also springs. But those of the few artifacts that reached the hands of scientists turned out to be the work of human hands. And almost always it was possible to understand how they ended up in the places of discovery. We also decided to figure out what kind of springs the prospector Koshman managed to wash.
Rather, Mikhail Efimovich first tried to figure it out himself:
“At first I thought it was part of an incandescent filament - for example, from a spotlight. But in our artel, all the searchlights were intact. I thoroughly questioned everyone - it turned out that no one had broken the lamps. Yes, and all people are experienced - they would not throw garbage into a stream where gold is washed. The second was the version that the springs got here from the headwaters of the stream and in some unknown way fell five meters down. But later in the management of the artel in Bilibin, I found out that no one had worked on our stream before. There are no residential areas near it. There were no Gulag camps in its vicinity. However, I checked these versions to clear my conscience, so that there were no doubts. I am firmly convinced that the springs got into the stream a long time ago and have been there all this time.
Mikhail Efimovich handed over several of the springs found to Komsomolskaya Pravda, and we asked specialists to investigate them.
And in the second part, we will share the results of this study.
