This Stone That Was Used as a Doorstop Could Be Worth Millions

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This rock looks pretty wild and that’s why one elderly Romanian woman grabbed it out of a river and took it home, using it as a doorstop for years. However, this isn’t actually a stone at all.

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00:00This rock looks pretty cool and that's why one elderly Romanian woman grabbed it out of a river

00:07and took it home using it as a doorstop for years. However, this isn't actually a stone at all. It is

00:13ancient amber that is millions of years old and worth more than a million dollars. The whole thing

00:18weighs 7.7 pounds and experts say it's the largest intact piece of amber in the world. Amber was once

00:24resin from a tree which fossilized over time into a rock-hard material. Amber is often considered a

00:29gemstone despite not mineralizing in the conventional fashion. This piece in particular

00:34is believed to be between 38 and 70 million years old. It was discovered in the village of Colty,

00:40a place where amber has been mined since the 1920s. While this massive chunk of amber is now in a

00:44museum, experts say it's worth around 1.1 million dollars. And this isn't the only doorstop rock

00:50that ended up being more than meets the eye. Back in 2018, a man in Michigan was using a large stone

00:55to prop open the door to his barn. That ended up being a meteorite, which ended up being worth $100,000.

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