Millions at stake in dinosaur fight: Are fossils minerals?

[jeff of pa]

FILE - In this Nov.14, 2013, file photo, one of two "dueling dinosaurs" fossils is displayed in New York. In an ongoing court case over the ownership of the fossils, the Montana Supreme Court heard arguments in Helena, Mont., Thursday, Nov. 7, 2019, over whether fossils are part of a property's surface estate or mineral estate in the case of split ownership. (AP Photo/Seth Weinig, File)



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[Charlie P. (NY)]

That is interesting.

Sharp on the part of the museum rep to ask if they had legal ownership. Don't want to loose a $6M investment to some court squabble.

 

[Older The Better]

We had this drilled into our brains in every geology class in college,
a mineral is a naturally occurring nonorganic substance with a definite chemical composition...
a fossil would not fall under this category since it is a composite of various minerals cemented together