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00:00And what I do, I go through the internet and look at all these ridiculous claims that are

00:05sometimes made.

00:06And the great thing about this program is our quest is for the truth.

00:09And one of the claims is about this wonderful emerald mine.

00:14And basically, the claim that Errol started Elon's career with money from that emerald

00:20mine.

00:21Did you own a mine and did that start his career, Errol?

00:24What's the truth?

00:26The truth is, I had a very big aircraft in the mid-80s, South Africa, after the speech

00:32that the Prime Minister gave about never allowing a black government in 85, South Africa took

00:39a terrible dive down economically.

00:42And I had a very large aircraft, private aircraft, you know, business twin, and I didn't know

00:48what to do with it.

00:49I didn't have any more charter work for it and it was expensive to maintain.

00:52So I decided, I found a company in England.

00:54They said they'd buy it from me if I brought it there, they'd fool the icing.

00:58And on the way there, we were turned back at Jeddah because they're having an Eid sort

01:05of holiday.

01:06And they asked us, they said, if we come in, we're going to have to pay $2,000 to land

01:10and $600 a day to park.

01:13So we said, no, we'll turn back.

01:14And so I went to Lake Tanganyika to have a look at it.

01:17And there was a company there from Panama who were building a runway, in fact, which

01:22is today a holiday resort on the banks of Lake Tanganyika.

01:25And they saw the plane and I told them what I was doing with it and they said, no, we'll

01:28buy it.

01:29So they offered me the cash right there and then.

01:30And I said, okay, great.

01:32So then they bought the plane and then they said to me, are you interested in, if you

01:36give us half the money back, we'll give you, they gave me a fab pendant, that's the price

01:39for it.

01:40And they said, if you give us half the money back, you can have a half share in our emerald

01:43deposits.

01:45So I said, they showed me over a hundred emeralds, which I could have immediately,

01:49cut emeralds.

01:50And they said, well, you know, why not?

01:52And so I got into it and I dealt in emeralds for the next five years from that source.

01:58And of course, from all sorts of people later who would come to me with, you know, you get

02:02into the business, eventually people start coming to you.

02:05And I had my own cutters working and yeah, so it became quite a big business.

02:10But what it did do was enable us where other people were moving to trailer parks and to

02:15caravan parks because they couldn't afford their homes anymore in South Africa or getting

02:20out of the country by the million, by the hundreds of thousands, I mean.

02:25We were able to continue our life in the way we'd always had.

02:29And that was, we could travel, the boys and I, Elon Kimmel and I could travel extensively

02:34and we did during that time and we saw no change in our standard of living.

02:38And I sold emeralds all over the world.

02:40So by 1990, the Russians had brought out the Biron, which is an artificial emerald and

02:47that soured the business somewhat.

02:49And I sort of got out of it at that point.

02:52But I would recommend to anyone to go into the jewelry business.

02:56It's a very good business to be in and very interesting, very exciting.

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