Did you know that the CEO of Tesla offered a million dogecoin to anyone who could prove the existence of the emerald mine her father supposedly owned?
He had already been upset by the alleged existence of this fake mine, but the prize offer caught the attention of Errol, the father of elon.
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Second Errol, the emerald mine was his venture and helped pave the way for elon become an industry giant in the US.
When Errol When he heard about the Dogecoin bounty, he joked: “I can get into that, because I can prove the mine existed!”
He assured that he knew the mine existed and that even his daughter has several emerald pendants as proof.
As Errol he could explore the emeralds
According to the great rich man, it was one of those incredible coincidences in life! He was selling a plane there in South Africa and was on his way to the United Kingdom when he stopped at an airstrip on the Zambian border with Tanzania and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
That's when he met a good Italian guy, owner of that landing, and discovered that he and his companions were digging emeralds in the jungle. Errol, so he decided to go into business with the Italian.
The workers dug up the green pebbles and sent them to Errol without any formality, all under the table.
And do you know how much the Italian paid for the residents of the region? Approximately US$2 per load!
That amount was enough to feed an entire family for a month! According to himself Errol, what the elon what he is saying is true: there was no formal mine, it was all done improvised on a rock formation in the middle of nowhere.
adventures of Errol in search of precious stones
He says that, at the time the adventure began, it was like the Wild West: nobody owned anything and the border was uncertain.
But even so, he managed to make a deal with an Italian through a handshake. That was the first time that Errol heard of Elon Musk, as he was part of the group of investors that helped finance this endeavor.
Errol he remembers that the emerald deposit was about 40 miles from Kasaba Bay, where he landed his Cessna.
Nowadays, the Bay is a tourist center, but at that time it was one of the few references he had to orient himself.
He believes that the reason why elon doesn't like to talk about this story, it's not because he doesn't value his humble background, but because he doesn't want to be seen as someone who had everything handed to him.
Errol is keen to point out that elon is a person who has always taken risks and worked hard to get to where he is today.
And the emeralds that were found in Zambia helped him and other investors through a difficult time in South Africa, when many people were fleeing the country in droves.
