Re: Fossils/mineral rights

[tobin@cshl.org (Henry Tobin)]

>It's also my second-hand understanding that the courts,  in the "Sue" case,
> essentially ruled that fossils are to be treated like any other mineral
>resource.
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>Well, I guess they COULD support that claim since fossils are no longer bone
>and such but have been replaced over millennia by stone  :/

In the same way that humans could be considered coal slurry because of our
high content of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen?

Henry Tobin

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