Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Thieves Get $2 Mil In Gems, Miss Big Prize

Thieves Get $2 Mil In Gems, Miss Big Prize, Hooded robbers make off with gold and precious stones from a mining museum in California. $2 million in gems, gold stolen from Calif. museum, California investigators searched Monday for thieves who made off with an estimated $2 million in precious gems and gold from a mining museum in the Sierra Nevada foothills during a brazen daytime robbery.

But they didn't get away with the biggest prize of all - the nearly 14-pound Fricot Nugget, a giant crystalline gold mass unearthed in the Gold Rush era.

During their attempt to grab the massive nugget, the robbers triggered an alarm that alerted authorities who swarmed the museum but were unable to nab the thieves.

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