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The story is more interesting, the points, for example, that he must pay $9.50 a day to dig in a roughly 650 square foot plot for gold. To get rich in the third world is a bit of an expense.
Anyways, here it is:
Link: https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/26/india/india-laborer-diamond-intl-hnk/index.html
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I've always missed something...
Can't believe I missed this:
Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grouville_Hoard
"Mead and Miles started metal detecting in the area where the hoard was reported in the early 1980s after they heard about a farmer who some years earlier had discovered a number of silver coins in an earthenware pot while pulling out a tree from a hedgerow. However, as they did not know the exact location of the find, and as the current owner of the farm would only allow them to metal detect once a year for 10–15 hours after the crops had been harvested, it took about 30 years before they eventually managed to locate the hoard."
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This, of interest because all of our gold rushes happened a century or more in the past. Yet not all the gold has been found, clearly.
The Serra Pelada, for example, prompted a gold rush in Brazil with upwards of 100, 000 artisanal miners, with a black market production estimate of 360 tonnes and nuggets weighing up to 15 pounds.
Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serra_Pelada
So far my summer has had a dearth of adventure, but I may find yet a way to remedy this...
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One I missed, probably due to the Pandemic. The largest Bronze-Age hoard found in London.
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Having found - in the garbage - a silk needlepoint of 2 eagles grappling over an American Flag - obviously old, (Google Image states Filipino, 100+ years) - lousy condition, I take it on myself to reprice and hang.
The manager finds it, thinks it's worth even more, and squirrels it away in the back.
Later, another of the volunteers finds a Native American Basket, probably SW Arizona/New Mexico - priced at 50 cents.
The manager looks at this, hums and haws, comes up with a price of $6.00. The volunteer puts it in her pile of treasures.
She's getting one hell of a deal, it's old, at least 100 years, and looking at similar online they go for $100's to $1000. Again, the condition isn't great, but the item is.
So, there are still treasures to be found...
Meanwhile, Madge is working on her next item, google-lensing a resin angel, made in China, $20.00 isn't too much, is it?