u/Zealousideal-Cod3810

Are they all off limits?

Check the email and the coin:

”Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently — they're not fond of rules... and they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them, because they change things... they push the human race forward. While some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.”

Has anyone been to Manitoba so far. Share your experience if you are willing. Thanks

Will we find the box after all these wildfires?

“young geology graduates eager to make their first big find.“

Enough already

I received the email, but I am not going to create an instagram account. I guess I am out of this competition

Le plus ancien site industriel et minier du Canada, souvent confondu avec un parc de mines, est le Lieu historique national des Forges-du-Saint-Maurice. Situé à seulement 15 minutes du centre-ville de Trois-Rivières (10000, boulevard des Forges) et à environ 1 h 30 de Québec, ce parc préserve les vestiges de la première exploitation de minerai de fer au pays, active de 1730 à 1883

By compiling the incorrect letters or words from those specific regional texts in sequential order, they form the following hidden message:

"The true path is carved in stone."

How the Puzzle Breaks Down

The GCTH features monthly regional clues via The Northern Miner. Solvers have noted minor, intentional "mistakes" embedded within the regional texts (such as spelling shifts, odd capitalization, or mismatched punctuation letters) that double as a hidden cipher. When you isolate only the erroneous characters across the regional puzzle markers, they reveal the final directive.

What do you guys think?

Good news regarding the grand prize. Congratulations to the NS winners

I will start with word count, drill depth, highways etc. what else?

In a land crowned cold and vast
Old riches whisper through the past
A mirror hides what veins once bore
The verdigris behind the lore

Beyond the clouds where glaciers reign
Gold sighs beneath the mountain’s strain
Yet peaks mislead with gilded hue
The path lies where the birch trees grew

Salt air once bore a copper song
But brittle roots don’t guide for long
The brine remembers, but forgets
The current pulls where moss still wets

Where fire stitched a northern name
And red seams sparked a fleeting flame
No ember now ignites the track
The phoenix flew and won’t look back

A giant coin reflects the sun
But circles lead where none begun
Its gleam is but a siren’s light
No miner’s truth is held in sight

Where chalco fever gripped the east
Where Flinty’s claim once never ceased
The water hums an ancient code
But silence marks the current road

The Shield bends low through sleeping trees
Where sunken whispers told of ease
But breaks don’t speak nor faults confess
What roots may hold in quiet press

Where iron sings and cedars lean
The northern call remains unseen
A truth not loud, but forged to be
The strong, the silent, and the free

One marker stands, by shore and pine
Its message dulled by passing time
What once declared, now disappears
Beneath the weight of growing years

Where warm the zinc-toned waters fell
And Bathurst rang its deepest bell
The sounds now fade but echo trails
In folds where even memory pales

Where suits and stones have struck accord
And Bay Street crowned the mining hoard
No gilded desk nor numbered share
Will point to where the birches stare

Step not in haste where paths align
But where the trail forgets design
Beyond the mark the tall grass grows
And buried speaks what no one knows

Not marked by gold but core alone
A sliver rests in overgrown
Look past the script, behind the brush
The compass turns, and all is hush

”A dozen paces, scattered wide, from north to south, from side to side. No single path will see you through; twelve broken strides reveal the clue.”

Do you guys see the similarity?

The latest clue was released yesterday:

I spent the entire night (no sleep) doing extensive online search, looking to decipher some of the clues within the clue, trying to take a “side trail” on the matter. This is what I got: please challenge me, as I like debate.

The Clue:

“A dozen paces, scattered wide, from north to south, from side to side. No single path will see you through; twelve broken strides reveal the clue.”

The Analysis:

DOZEN PACES SCATTERED WIDE

Draw pace scatter plot for these location coordinates (dawson city and cobalt and kleanza provincial park and Dover Newfoundland and britannia mine and tommy thompson park and bathurst new brunswick and val d'or and regina and great slave and flin flon and fort mcmurray)

AS YOU CAN SEE I MADE UP THE LAST FOUR LOCATIONS (they are so far unknown) AND THIS IS ONE OF THE WEAKNESSES OF THIS ANALYSIS

NEXT:

TWELVE BROKEN STRIDES

Draw a sequence diagram between the twelve locations, USING THE SEQUENCE THE REGIONAL PRIZES WERE RELEASED UPON

next step:

think of the NEAREST RESEMBLANCE TO THE SHAPE OF THE SEQUENCE DIAGRAM

IT IS CONSTELLATION(S)

next step:

Which canadian town or city is linked to “constellation(s)?

Shape of constellation=Greater Sudbury

based on my analysis, the grand prize is in the Greater Sudbury Area.

but where???

I heard thousands of people have already searched the GSA extensively.

For People of Sudbury:

Use today and tomorrow for deeper search!!

For everyone else:

Challenge me! Start the debate!

12 circles total.
We know 9 so far (some provinces had more than one regional prize).

3 regional prizes to go.

The 13th “circle” will be where the main prize is located. If the next regional prize is located in NS (as per the west-east pattern), then the main prize got to be in one of the remaining 4 provinces/territories (unlikely we see another “repeat“ province location).

We will only know which province/territory after all 12 locations are announced.

The main prize will be located in the province/territory which had no regional prize by the end of the regional hunt, which explains the concept of “none begun”.

Any thoughts?