A pearl of great price

$100,000 perfect Broome pearl (no, didn't buy it!) Broome's economy is now based on tourism and cultured pearls. But back in the day it developed as a wild, cruel outpost for the pearl shell industry that yielded 80% of the colonial world's mother of pearl buttons.

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