To: Pan_Yan
The 50-tonne block was found half buried in soil What's a tonne?
12 posted on
02/22/2014 11:59:27 AM PST by
frithguild
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To: frithguild
1 tonne = 2204.6 lbs.
Therefore, the big hunk of jade weighs 112,230 lbs, or 55.1 tons in the Understandable Scale.
13 posted on
02/22/2014 12:03:25 PM PST by
hoagy62
("Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered..."-Thomas Paine. 1776)
To: frithguild; hoagy62; 353FMG
Therefore, the big hunk of jade weighs 112,230 lbs, or 55.1 tons in the Understandable Scale.Of course we are talking about a half buried rock in the rebel controlled mountains of Burma. All estimates are rough, to say the least.
The question is will the greed of the military junta be enough to allow them to swallow their pride and pay the rebels they've been fighting for 50 years so it can be excavated, shipped out and sold?
15 posted on
02/22/2014 12:54:01 PM PST by
Pan_Yan
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