Cattle gallstones are valuable due to their use in Chinese medicine. Some stones sell for twice the price of gold.

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Gallstones Hard stones that are made of crystallized cholesterol, pigment, or a mixture of the two. Gallstones can be as small as a grain of sand to as large as a golf ball. When gallstones cause ...