and above all, precious mammoth tusks. Ivory - the white gold of the tundra - will sell for over $50 a kilo. A total market appears at $2.5 million, with hubs in Moscow and Hong Kong.

“They can’t sell the skull,” she says of the tusk hunters ... found mammoth tusks by accident near where I grew up. When I was young, I read a novel—there was a movie too—about ...