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Gold Miners Are Not Without Risk, but the Potential Upside is Enormous.
by Simon Black Sovereign Man
On a routine day in the winter of 1993, workers at the Chehrabad salt mine in the Zanjan Province of Iran discovered a remarkably preserved corpse dating back to 300 AD.
He apparently died in a salt mining accident in the early 300s. But the salt had kept the man’s body largely intact. Even his leather boots were still in great condition.
Perhaps most interesting was that the man was wearing a golden earring, and he had a number of silver coins in his pockets… suggesting that he may have been the mine’s paymaster, or perhaps even its owner.
Salt mining was an incredibly lucrative business back in the ancient world, and the owner would have probably been making a small fortune.