5 on JRP. Mostly wonderful run in mostly miserable conditions, rain, slush, hail, and other forms of precip. At work we regularly have people bring us their "geologic" treasures for identification. We see a lot of fools gold, meteorwrongs, colored glass, rocks that vaguely look like fossils but aren't, and so on. We have started calling ourselves the Dream Crushers. In the 13+ years I've worked here I've seen oddities, curiosities, and almosts but not one thing that was really valuable. Until today! Someone brought in a rock that they found in stuff from their father's estate. It was loaded with native gold. Probably over $12,000 worth of gold as a metal and the piece was perhaps worth two or three times that as a specimen. The Dream Crushers were defeated today.... finally!
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