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Hidden Essex: Goldhanger's gold rush
In 1904, a group of people from Goldhanger near Maldon began searching for gold on a remote and uninhabited Norwegian island called Spitsbergen.
David Newman is from the Goldhanger History Group and is the co-author of a book about Ernest Mansfield, who founded with three other local residents, the Northern Exploration Company. Its objective was to extract gold minerals from Spitsbergen and import them back to the UK.
Picture: One of the original Camp Mansfield huts at the abandoned marble mine.
Credit: Paul Souders/Getty Images.
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