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Meteor Crater! and Daniel Barringer’s Colossal Mistake

May 31st, 2019 · No Comments

Barringer began digging holes in the meteor crater in 1906. You can still see mining equipment at the bottom of the meteor crater from those times. He kept digging and digging, but the most he found were just big chunks of silvery rock. He literally put his entire fortune into that hole –$600,000 or the equivalent of $7 million today.

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