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Site of BA02
Source: See link to Jacksonville "Blue China" Shipwreck below.
I found a good study of the "Blue China" wreck, which lies about 70 miles east/southeast of Jacksonville. The study was conducted by Odyssey Marine Explorations and provides a lot of great information and photos. Above is one illustration of the site.
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| Plates and Jars on the "Blue China" Wreck Site. Source: Odyssey Marine Explorations Report (link below) |
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There is a lot to see in this report. Here is the link.
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| Source: Kitco.com |
Gold has been doing well. As you can see from the above chart, the price has increased from just over $1400/oz. to over $1800/oz. in the last year.
After peaking back in 2011, it has almost reached those levels again recently.
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| Source: Kitco.com. |
Silver, on the other hand, has not be doing so well. Silver was nearly $50/oz. back in 2010, but is below $20/oz. today.
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| Source: Kitco.com. |
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Picking up seashells has been a human habit for almost as long as there have been humans. Archaeologists found clam shells mingled with other artifacts in Israel’s Misliya Cave, buried in sediment layers dating from 240,000 to 160,000 years ago. The shells clearly weren’t the remains of Paleolithic seafood dinners; their battered condition meant they’d washed ashore after their former occupants had died....
Shell collectors at Misliya seemed to like mostly intact shells, and there’s no sign that they decorated or modified their finds. But 40,000 years later and 40km (25 miles) away, people at Qafzeh Cave seemed to prefer collecting clam shells with little holes near their tops. The holes were natural damage from scraping along the seafloor, but people used them to string the shells together to make jewelry or decorations. Tel-Aviv University archaeologist Daniella Bar-Yosef Mayer and her colleagues examined five shells from Qafzeh and found microscopic striations around the edges of the holes—marks that suggest the shells once hung on a string...
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No storms to be concerned about right now.
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