{"id":103811,"date":"2017-05-24T01:37:42","date_gmt":"2017-05-24T05:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=103811"},"modified":"2017-05-24T01:37:42","modified_gmt":"2017-05-24T05:37:42","slug":"emerald-weighing-more-than-600-pounds-found-in-brazil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/05\/24\/emerald-weighing-more-than-600-pounds-found-in-brazil\/","title":{"rendered":"Emerald weighing more than 600 pounds found in Brazil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_103813\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-103813\" style=\"width: 607px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/607px-Bahia_in_Brazil.svg_.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-103813\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/607px-Bahia_in_Brazil.svg_.png\" alt=\"Miners have found a 4.3-foot (1.3-meter) tall emerald weighing more than 600 pounds (272 kilograms) in Brazil's northeastern state of Bahia.  (Photo by TUBS [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/3.0)],)\" width=\"607\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/607px-Bahia_in_Brazil.svg_.png 607w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/607px-Bahia_in_Brazil.svg_-300x297.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 607px) 100vw, 607px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-103813\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Miners have found a 4.3-foot (1.3-meter) tall emerald weighing more than 600 pounds (272 kilograms) in Brazil&#8217;s northeastern state of Bahia. (Photo by <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File%3ABahia_in_Brazil.svg\">TUBS [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/3.0)],<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>SAO PAULO \u2014 Miners have found a 4.3-foot (1.3-meter) tall emerald weighing more than 600 pounds (272 kilograms) in Brazil&#8217;s northeastern state of Bahia.<\/p>\n<p>Paulo Santana of Brazil&#8217;s National Mineral Production Department said the emerald was found about 20 days ago by miners of the Bahia Mineral Cooperative.<\/p>\n<p>He would not estimate the emerald&#8217;s value. It was sold to a mine owner in the region.<\/p>\n<p>The buyer&#8217;s lawyer, Marcio Jandir, said by telephone his client wants to exhibit the emerald in museums and libraries.<\/p>\n<p>Jandir did not reveal the buyer&#8217;s name.<\/p>\n<p>Santana said it was the second large emerald found in the region. The first one was 44 pounds heavier and was valued at more than $300 million when it was unearthed in 2001.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAO PAULO \u2014 Miners have found a 4.3-foot (1.3-meter) tall emerald weighing more than 600 pounds (272 kilograms) in Brazil&#8217;s &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":103813,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,16,17],"tags":[19481],"class_list":["post-103811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news","category-news-w","tag-emerald","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}