"Elon knows all about the emeralds. It's just because, you see, he wants to tell the people in America that he also had a hard time."

~Errol Musk

Errol Musk confirms that Elon is lying when he says his father didn't own a mine and that he didn't benefit from it. Elon was both physically at the mine, and personally involved in selling emeralds to Tiffany's in New York.