Shipwreck discovery may hold $3 billion in platinum, seaman says

(Reuters) - A Maine seafarer said he found the wreck of a World War II merchant ship off the Massachusetts coast, sunk while ferrying a load of the precious metal platinum valued today at nearly $3 billion, an unprecedented find that left some doubting the cargo.

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