Man keeps $3.5 million meteorite for 30 years without knowledge

A Spanish farmer has been keeping wealth in his farm for thirty years without knowledge. The man, Faustino Asensio Lopez used a 100kg rock to grind ham. Unknown to him, the rock is a meteorite worth $3.5 million.

According to him, he believed that the rock was a military scrap from the country civil war. So in 2011, he watched several reports on TV on meteorite sightings in the country. He discovered that the pictures of the meteorite match the one in his farm. He quickly met with Geologist Juan Carlos Gutierrez who confirmed after series of analyst that the rock is a pre-historic metallic meteorite. The fourth of such to be found in the country.
Lopez who owns the rock with his brother said,

they have already put the meteorite up for sale and said he would want the business to be made 'quietly'. As they wait patiently for buyers, they've hidden the meteorite in safe place.