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North Dakota coal miners find ancient 50-pound mammoth tusk

North Dakota coal miners find ancient 50-pound mammoth tusk
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North Dakota coal miners find ancient 50-pound mammoth tusk

North Dakota coal miners find ancient 50-pound mammoth tusk
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Coal miners in North Dakota unearth mammoth tusk

After spotting the tusk, the crews stopped digging in the area and called in experts, who estimated it to be 10,000 to 100,000 years old.

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Mammoth Discovery: Coal Miners Find Fossilized Tusk and Bones in North Dakota

Miners unearthed the tusk from an old streambed, about 40 feet (12.1 meters) deep, at the Freedom Mine near Beulah, North Dakota. The 45,000-acre (18,210-hectare) surface mine produces up to 16 million tons (14.5 million metric tons) of lignite coal per year.

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Coal miners in North Dakota unearth a mammoth tusk buried for thousands of years

Coal miners in North Dakota unearth a mammoth tusk buried for thousands of years
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