The trouble with treasure
An amateur diver says he's discovered tens of thousands of raw emeralds at the bottom of the ocean -- but it may be years before he can profit. Armen Keteyian reports.
An amateur diver says he's discovered tens of thousands of raw emeralds at the bottom of the ocean -- but it may be years before he can profit. Armen Keteyian reports.
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exactly. spain always wants a cut of treasure, even while they stole it
This guy is telling the truth of how he discovers it! His demeanor was so calm during the interview!
@jimcook1747
4 жыл бұрын
He was lying and when his lie came out, he committed suicide.
chandler lucy brought me here
Jay was a friend of mine. I've known him for several years. Very kind soul. Sadly he killed himself yesterday. This 60 minutes report must not have scratched the surface of his problems. Rest in piece buddy.
@joshuataft5541
Жыл бұрын
Yes rest in peace..imagine the feeling if finding such a wonder
I Believe This Was A Video Clip Of CBS News' 60 Minutes' Report On The Trouble With Treasure On Sunday Evening, April 22, 2012.
Any chance these Emeralds are from the Atocha?
Those are not old antique emeralds especially not from a shipwreck
It gets weirder. This guy was found suicided....
Countless emeralds and ironies in this story
Where is it
@jimcook1747
4 жыл бұрын
It was discovered to be a hoax. The man committed suicide.
I would have kept it and never told a soul.there is a saying in close mouths flys don't enter. I am 66 years would have sold it little by little in tne black market.
Sad that you find something of great value and try to do the right thing and get attacked and ridiculed and refused the benefits of the find. I guess the lesson here is if you legitimately find something like this just sell it to whoever will buy it and get the trouble out of your hands as quickly as possible.
@jimcook1747
4 жыл бұрын
It was found out to be a hoax. He committed suicide.
If it is a scam, it's a damn good one. Black market them
Scumbag feds
Sadly he killed himself over the treasure..wonder what's going on their..loook it uo
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It another Mel fisher find……
Riiiiight. This guy bought 80 lbs of emeralds and dumped it on the ocean floor so he could fake finding a treasure ship. Yea. That's what happened. Poor guy...
@chem3066
3 ай бұрын
That is what happened
As an individual who has specialized in gemology over the past 50 years, I looked with great interest at the photos of the emeralds. The great majority of what I saw, are what is termed "green beryl", and not emerald and they were so heavily fractured or included, that they would be of little interest to a lapidary for cutting. There were no close up photos, except for a brief view of the crystal which was freshly brought up from the sea floor, and it looked like a decent quality emerald, but I would say, the majority of the stones are pretty much junk beryl, with little value.
@TheFaustianMan
5 жыл бұрын
Agreed. 60 minutes gets more ratings for shoddy journalism than any true investigative journalism. I mean they pretended they took them to a jewelry store for appraisal, but edited out any worth of value.
@brownholecharles
4 жыл бұрын
you looked at video of the gems, yet plenty of gemologists got examined them by hand and scanning microscope - they are real columbian emeralds.
& than he killed himself.
@lordmeric3180
8 жыл бұрын
I bet they kill him
@iicy_Hott_x3
8 жыл бұрын
It's possible
@youremybiggestfan
5 жыл бұрын
Yes they killed him because he knew too much. He told me his whole story and gave me some artifacts and then he offed himself.
Bullshit! Those emeralds would be mine. Nobody else would have found them. I say finders keeper. If nobody can claim them, and prove they belong to them, then they are yours! Tell anyone who says they aren't, to kiss your ass! Just sell them and move to Belize.
Notice the potential value is based on the provenance of the stone and not the quality of the stones. So, these low grade emeralds will be worth a lot if they can tie the story to a sunken Spanish or Pirate ship, other than that, yes they are from Columbia but this means nothing as the quality of the stones are low and the whole scam will be based on the hope they can be tied to a ship. Smells like the guy used some of his own money to buy raw stones from Columbia and then investor money to purchase reject and subgrade stones from Columbia and got caught with his pants down when the enhancement compound was found on some of them indicating that Columbian stone cutters tried to enhance some substandard stones and when they couldn't just lumped them in with the others this guy bought.
Found it in my house our my property f the gov
All of this belongs to the Most High God!!!!!!!and His Hebrew Negros Black Men Women and are children.
@brandonknight6575
Жыл бұрын
Put the meth pipe down dude...🙄🤦♂️🤣