On February 13, 1961, Wallace Lane, Virginia Maxey and Mike Mikesell were searching for interesting specimens of minerals, specifically geodes, for their gift shop in Olancha, California.
Their geodes search took them approximately 6 kilometers northeast of Olancha, about 4300 feet to the Coso Mountains near the dry bed of Owens Lake, where they were collecting samples. They returned to the shop with several geodes.
But one of them had 500,000 reasons to be dubbed as the discovery of a lifetime.
The next day Mike Miksell broke a blade while cutting what he thought was a geode, inside the object that he was cutting, Mikesell found anything but the typical cavity geodes usually have, to his surprise, he discovered a perfectly circular section of a hard white material that looked like porcelain.
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Their geodes search took them approximately 6 kilometers northeast of Olancha, about 4300 feet to the Coso Mountains near the dry bed of Owens Lake, where they were collecting samples. They returned to the shop with several geodes.
But one of them had 500,000 reasons to be dubbed as the discovery of a lifetime.
The next day Mike Miksell broke a blade while cutting what he thought was a geode, inside the object that he was cutting, Mikesell found anything but the typical cavity geodes usually have, to his surprise, he discovered a perfectly circular section of a hard white material that looked like porcelain.
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