• roofuskit@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Sometimes a mine just a hole in the ground with some valuable minerals. They paid locals to work it and sold the emeralds on the down low according to his dad, he had a partner. It wasn’t a huge operation. But it paid their bills and then some.