>>545891Yeah, I was speaking in broad terms since it depends on a lot of factors, but generally "finders keepers" is not a valid legal statement.
Anyway, if OP got his panties ruffled by that rude geologist then he should find another, more polite, geologist to talk to.
A chunk of glacial ice that big and dense is very old, there's literally thousands (maybe even millions) of years of information in that ice.
And maybe a even a caveman.