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Ten years ago, a poor Filipino fisherman from the island of Palawan caught a giant clam, inside which was a pearl incredible sizes.
The man did not even realize that this find could make him one of the wealthiest people in his country, and kept it all these years in his dilapidated hut. Only recently, a huge mother-of-pearl education was in the hands of specialists who managed determine its value.
This pearl, weighing thirty-four kilograms, was valued by gemologists at one hundred million dollars! Recall that the previous record belongs to the pearl of Lao Tzu, also found on The Philippines. Its mass is “only” six and a half kilograms.
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At the beginning of this year, a strong forest fire broke out in the Palawan, and the fisherman’s hut, standing near the trees, burned to the ground. Filipino for several months I tried to restore my home and renew fishing, but he didn’t succeed, because everything fishing products were destroyed by fire. Then desperate the man took his pearl untouched by fire, and carried it as soon as tourism department hoping to get over the “white stone” at least some money.
Needless to say, the staff of the institution were to the depths souls are amazed when a fisherman brought them pearls almost seventy centimeters. Connected to the mother of pearl examination education gemologists said the gem is worth unusually much, and if we divide the proceeds from its sale between a hundred people, then each of them will turn into a dollar millionaire.
Unfortunately, the angler himself may not become a millionaire. Filipino officials already wanted to put the pearl in the museum with the purpose of attracting tourists. The author of the find can get in exchange for a very small amount, because, according to local laws, all discovered treasures belong to the state, not to those who find them.
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