It was also retrieved near Palawan Island.
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The enormous pearl is 1 foot wide, 2.2 feet long and weighs 75 lbs.
If it is confirmed to have formed within a giant marine, it would likely be valued in excess of $100m (about N34b). When the anchor caught on a large shell during a storm, he swam down to unlodge the anchor and brought the shell up with him. He didn’t plan to hand it over on objective neither he was aware of the worth of the pearl.
According to the Guardian, he had been keeping the 34kg pearl hidden in his bedroom as a good luck charm and would touch it before leaving on a fishing trip. Puerto Princesa City information officer Richard Ligad said the fisherman who discovered the pearl could be in for an extraordinary windfall.
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The pearl is bigger than the last recorded biggest pearl, both the pearls have been attained from Palawan Island, which is a home to majority of the pearls found.
Ten years later the man made a decision to give the pearl to a relative by the name of Aileen Amurao, who is also Puerto Princesa city’s tourism officer. “I just became aware when I searched the internet that all giant pearls came from here; sad to know none of those were left in the possession of the city or province”, she said.
In July, the nephew moved to a new address and took the object to his aunt in a tricycle, asking her to hide it for him, said Amurao, the city tourism officer for Puerto Princesa, the provincial capital. How about a pearl that weighs 75 pounds (34 kg) and may be worth $100 million (£75 million, AU$131 million)?
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This is because the pearl that was found is not a traditional, iridescent pearl, like a Mikimoto or an Akoya and is not of gem-quality. The pearl was subsequently offered to the mayor, Lucilo R Bayon, with the permission from the fisherman. It already drew much attention on display at the city’s town hall. “We now need help from gemologists to fully certify it”.
