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They say one's trash is another's treasure, but a chunk of 'rock' used to keep a door open for decades is a treasure by pretty much any metric you might care to use.
The 3.5 kilogram stone was found in a stream bed in southeast Romania by an elderly woman, who brought it home and put it to use.Amber is tree resin from millions of years in the past. Over time, the highly viscous substance fossilizes into a hard, warm-hued material widely recognized as a gemstone.
Classified as a national treasure of Romania, the nugget has had a home at the Provincial Museum of Buzau – the county in which the relic was found – The discovery resembles that of a man in Michigan, who kept a large piece of rock as a doorstop, only to find out decades later that he was keeping his doors in place with a meteorite
A chunk of amber worth over a million dollars isn't a bad score, either, really. Just imagine how many doorstops you could buy.
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