Jewelry buyers must be careful when purchasing gold accessories. In India’s Jammu and Kashmir region, a resident realized too late that the gold ornaments he had bought from a local jewelry shop were fake.

Nisar Ahmad Bhat reported this on 9 January to the local police who raided the M/s Soliya Ornaments in Bijebehara Anantnag, local media reported. They found fake jewelry in the store and seized them. Mehraj Din Qazi, the shop owner, was arrested.

Meanwhile, Australian gold prospector David Hole was hoping that a very heavy, reddish rock he had found in Maryborough Regional Park in 2015 would yield gold nuggets worth millions of dollars.

Hole tried a rock saw, an angle grinder, a drill and a sledgehammer to break it over the years but failed to crack it. He brought it to the Melbourne Museum for identification.

Upon examination, museum experts identified the rock as a 4.6-billion-year-old meteorite, the Times of India (ToI) reported.

Specifically, the 17-kilogram rock was an H5 or ordinary chondrite that was rich in iron and crystallized minerals known as chondrules.

Researchers said the rock fell on earth some 1,000 years ago, the report adds.

Since meteorites give information about the early solar system and possibly the origins of life, Hole’s rock is believed to be worth hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars due to its scientific significance and rarity, according to ToI.