PITAS: Minerals found in Pitas said to be gold drawing crowds from out of town were actually not the precious commodity, clarified a government official.
Senior Assistant Director of the Sabah Mineral and Geoscience Department Cleafos Totu said the golden-coloured stones shown to him by a developer's worker were just pyrite rocks or fool's gold as they were commonly known.
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Several other workers at a construction site where the purported gold was found sympathised with visitors to the area looking for the precious metal.
Cleafos said some of them came from as far as Sipitang, Beluran and Paitan.
Others ventured into the area heavily under development with kids, raising concern among the department's and police officials about their safety, he said.
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