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Thursday evening, the boy having repossessed his car, I take the bus out the Balfour and spend an hour or so scouring the beach.
Not unproductive, although it's getting rather picked.
Left, a well knapped scraper, right-centre (brown) a broken arrowhead, top right a peculiarly broken piece of quartzite, which may or may not have been a scraper or tool, and under the loonie a tiny quartz point (close up it shows sign of being worked, although it just may be the grain of the quartz).
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Adding these to the box of arrowheads I've already collected - some, museum quality, others, well, a little ruder, but it's becoming quite the collection.
The next trip, probably after the fall rains, late October when the ferry's had a chance to churn up some new rocks.
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The price is a best-guess as it hasn't gone up for sale, but the discovery of the most youthful portrait of the Bard yet on record is pretty sure to set some new auction records.
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Vancouver based Lucara again, from their Botswana holding, the second largest diamond ever found, weighing in at a whopping 2, 492 Carats, or roughly a pound.
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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."