Tuesday, 20. January 2004

Farmer's Diamonds Go to Waste But Are Recovered


It's not quite the goose that laid the golden egg, but an Indian diamond merchant's prize cow is producing bejeweled dung.

Dilubhai Rajput had stashed a bag of more than 1,700 small diamonds, worth almost $900, in a pile of hay at his home in Gujarat state, famous both for its dairy and diamond-cutting industries, but hadn't reckoned on the risk of a hungry cow.

¬> reuters

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