Neat News 3161 (added 2024-09-17)
Amber nugget
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Decades back a woman in Romania found a 3.5kg stone in a stream bed and used it to keep a door open. After she died in 1991, a relative inherited her home and suspected that the stone may have some value. As it turns out it is the biggest piece of rumanite, a type of amber, ever found, older than 38 million years, and worth around one million euros.
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