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Mrs Culp thought the chain had accidentally been dropped in the coal, but as she tried to lift it up this idea was shown to be wrong, as the lump broke it split almost in the middle. The circular position of the chain placed the two ends close to each other, and as the lump separated, the middle of the chain became loose while the ends remained fastened to the coal. The coal was found to be from the carboniferous era, i.e. several million years old. granite out of a quarry near Rutherford Mills, England, on June 22, came upon a gold thread 8 feet below the surface, embedded in rock judged by geologists to be 60 million years old. Investigators sent by the “London Times” reported that they believed the thread to have been artificially made. 4 |n 1851 the Springfield Illinois “Republican” reported that a businessman, Hiram De Witt, had brought back a piece of auriferous quartz about the size of a man's fist from a trip to California. While he was showing the rock to a friend, he dropped it and it split upon striking the floor. In the middle of the quartz they found a cut iron sixpenny nail, slightly corroded but with a perfect: head and entirely straight. The quartz was said to be over a million years old. From “Secrets of the Lost Races” by Rene Noorbergen. 47 in 1844 workmen blasting a