Use Google Earth to find the gold mine

Jeff Harris and Brendan Elliott - two Australian explorers, using Google Earth and a gold finder's diary, search for a large gold plume buried in the desert.

The story dates back to 1929 when an Australian man named Harold Bell Lasseter claimed he had discovered a large gold brook buried in the remote Gibson Desert in Western Australia. The area is said to be gold located about 4 hours from Warburton, Victoria, Australia.

Gibson Desert, where treasure is hidden. Photo: Alamy

Immediately, Sydney's financial supporters financially lobbied for Lasseter to return to the gold mine. However, the man was later abandoned by his companions in the desert and died of exhaustion.

Prior to his death, he had recorded all information about gold mines, drawings, search journeys, the path to treasure in a diary.

A few years later, a series of expeditions to try to find the gold mine failed.

Eight decades later, Lasseter's journal accidentally falls into the hands of Jeff Harris and Brendan Elliott, two explorers from Tamworth, New South Wales, Australia. They researched the drawings, maps and information recorded in Lasseter's diary and used the famous Google Earth map program to search for treasure.

"We followed all the signs Lasseter left behind in his blogs using Google Earth to find and achieve very positive results ," Harris said.

After a year of searching, Harris and Elliott discovered a very large quartz bed. It is known that quartz usually appear in large gold mines. Harris carefully surveyed the area five more times to make sure there was gold.

"We have not found gold yet, but it's certainly there, although I do not have a lot of support, but I do not care, and I believe my efforts will be rewarded , " Harris said.

Next month, Harris will return to the area he claims to own the large gold mine as well as modern gold-hunting equipment to find his dream treasure.