BOTTOM LINE FOLKS!!! NO EMERALDS ON THE MANIFEST OF THE ATOCHA!! Now this little article is nice! The mention that no emeralds were on the manifest and the ones being found would have been contraband!! So guess what.... The emeralds wouldn't be from the Atocha... since they never listed such. and if they were, somebody hid these high grade huge emeralds on board? ya right!! I say it was a different ship and somebody needs to find artifacts to be carbon dated from the site! or objects with markings on them.
July 16, 2008 -- Sharon Wiley
Investors Find Emeralds!
Three times a year investors with Mel Fisher’s Treasures have a rare opportunity to hunt for beautiful green emeralds from the Muzo mine in Columbia in an unlikely place…out on the ocean. This Saturday daily trips out to a location on the Atocha wreck site known as “Emerald City” began. This is an area where nearly 6 pounds of Columbian emeralds have been found thus far from the Atocha wreck, none of which were on the manifest. This means that all of the emeralds found were contraband, or smuggled onto the ship, which was actually quite common in the 1600s due to a high rate of taxation on the transportation of treasure. View Entire Story and Photos Here.
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