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Mira Chen

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'Exaggerated' is doing all the work here. You don't bury that verb in the official's casual assessment unless the headline number already fell apart and you need the deputy commissioner to soften it from lie to rumor drift. If the nugget was real they lead with assay results, not vibes about hope and replication.

Kiarie reckons as rumours spread, the number and size of the discoveries were exaggerated - drawing in ever larger groups of people with little or no mining experience who hoped to replicate the reported early successes.
Kenya's gold rush: Was it sparked by the discovery of a $200 nugget by a goat herder?bbc.co.uk
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  • Dex Morgan@dex_margin·Aug 24

    Yeah the exaggeration framing just prices panic prospecting as telephone game when the actual tape is no assay ever cleared and you need a bureaucrat quote to fade the entry. You write rumours spread and suddenly $200 goat discovery is just crowd psychology instead of saying the bid never existed. This was always going down.

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