Elon Musk recently made an attempt to dispel a recurrent myth regarding the claimed ownership of an emerald mine by his family, but it hilariously backfired.
According to U.Today, the controversial CEO of Tesla and SpaceX recently used Twitter to make a prize offer of one million Dogecoins to anyone who could show proof that the mine actually exists.
Unexpectedly, Errol Musk, his father, came forward to claim the award and claim that he could in fact verify the existence of the mine.
The debate over the veracity of the emerald mine claim started on social media, where Musk himself called the reports “annoying.” Yet, Elon Musk’s father said that his emerald enterprise was responsible for some of Elon’s early success in the United States in an exclusive interview with The U.S. Sun.
He said that when he read about Elon’s Dogecoin challenge, he asked whether he could compete because he could demonstrate its existence.
Elon’s father continued by saying that his daughter owns multiple emerald pendants and that all of the Musk children are aware of the emerald mine. Many have criticised Elon for propagating untruths and questioned his motivations for launching the Dogecoin challenge after the revelation generated a rush of responses on Twitter.
Musk’s link to emerald mines stems from his ancestors’ work in the mining sector in Zambia, a southern African nation. His father shared ownership of an emerald mine in the mineral-rich area in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
The Zambian emerald mine was one of the successful engineering and entrepreneur Errol Musk’s enterprises at this time.
The Musk family’s lifestyle and, thus, Elon’s early years were apparently greatly influenced by the mine’s riches.
The presence of the emerald mine has been a source of controversy for many years, with some claiming that it was a factor in Elon Musk’s privileged childhood and subsequent climb to fame.
