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Whatever is found in earth belongs to the government. You probably get 10 minutes fame and nice story to tell on bbqs and that’s about it. Of course any reasonable person would put in pocket two or three of those for kids/grandchildren to give in few years.

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That does seem to be the case in a lot of countries. The big exception being the US (including mineral rights).

As someone from the US, it was actually quite surprising finding out other countries handled things this way.

I'm too lazy to check the facts, I grew up in Poland and that's what I remember my dad saying.

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