Elon Musk's Dad Says His Son's Whole Career Was Funded by That Emerald Mine. "Elon knows it's true. All the kids know about it." #ElonMusk #Musk #mining #ErrolMusk #SouthAfrica #Zambia

https://futurism.com/elon-musk-dad-emerald-mine

lol

Inside #ErrolMusk’s emerald-mine empire after he hits back at son #ElonMusk’s claim and says he can ‘prove’ its existence

https://www.the-sun.com/news/7920796/inside-errol-musks-emerald-mine-empire/

First: there was an emerald mine. Until fairly recently, this was not disputed by anyone except misguided Musk fans.

Linkrot has played hell with the online evidence. But thanks to a formally-adjudicated complaint (by a third party) after my 2018 interview with #ErrolMusk, I have decent archives and notes.

A good place to start is 2009, with that not-quite-tabloid-scum publication The New Yorker:
https://web.archive.org/web/20220511131259/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2009/08/24/plugged-in

The problem with #elonmunks is ppl think he is this brilliant engineer. He is a #trustfundbaby who made a few lucky bets with money from his fathers emerald mine. Dude would be humping rejected pillows behind lindells factory without it. The apple doesnt fall far from the tree #errolmusk