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Part one
This all goes back to the year 1909-boss references this as the year it all changed- and even further back imo. There was an expedition to the Grand canyon by the Smithsonian in 1909.
http://www.spiritofmaat.com/archive/nov2/gazette.html
The museum itself has always disavowed any of this story..even claiming it never happened.
Read that and then continue on.
This discovery if allowed to out into the public would have absolutely destroyed society because of the sheer volume of what they found. Something like 10x the amount of known in ground and above ground Au. If you have been to the Grand cCanyon's most popular viwing point you know that all the mountains are named for Egyptian gods Osiris, Isis etc
https://www.eyeofthepsychic.com/egyptiancanyon/
So they had a BIG problem. How to manage this? There was much moar above ground silver back then so they started to plan something to manage this discovery. Enter the Federal Reserve…the titanic story comes into play here as well. See who was on it..Astor , Guggenheim..all opposed to a central banking system.
The Gov't then instigated the NPS- National Park Service to have some type of control of this. It gets a little murky over the next few years however fast forward to 1956. Two planes supposedly collided over the grand canyon.
http://www.aircraftarchaeology.com/twaunited.html
This was over a place called Lee's Ferry where the little colorado river and colorado river converge. This was the reason the gov't gave to get in there and take this massive discovery out so it could be managed properly.
Remember that in either late 1800's or early 1900s a decision was made to use silver as the industrial metal. Once that decision was made there was no changing it. No matter what happened after they were stuck with it.
Gold was the preferred monetary metal from the point of decision to use silver for industrial use.
There is also the Manhattan Project that needed a massive amount of Ag to put into calutrons to process the uranium for the war effort. Leslie Groves Army managed this project. Decent movie with Paul Newman about this-can't recall the name. This required Billions of ounces of Ag transported to the Oak Ridge facility in Tn. Look that project up.
What happened after that is murkier still. Suffice to say we depleted a massive amount of our silver stocks during the war effort and it just kept being used as an industrial metal.
There was also alot of fuckery with the paperwork that the gov't filed to 'borrow' this large amount for the war effort. The accounting for it kind of makes sense but it supposes that they actually took it and then put it back. I don't think they did.
Someone would have seen something methinks.
Anyway fast forward to mid 90's and the rumor is that Bubba and his crew actually shut the Oak Ridge facility down because they needed the silver in the calutrons for whatever they wanted it for.
Look up Road to Roota done by Bix Weir. Much moar information there and he has done a good job wit this material. Writes better than I do.
His dying on the hill with the crypto litecoin actually does a dis-service to the rest of his work.