A French climber reportedly found $332,000 worth of precious stones in crashed plane at a glacier off Mont Blanc, Yahoo! News reported Thursday.

According to reports, a French climber found a metal box, containing 246,000 euros or $332,000 worth of precious stones, on board an Indian plane that had crashed in the secluded area nearly 50 years ago. The box contained emeralds, rubies, and sapphires.

However, the man turned the treasure in to local police, without minding the price of each jewel.

"This was an honest young man who very quickly realized that they belonged to someone who died on the glacier," local gendarmerie chief Sylvain Merly said. "He could have kept them but he preferred to give them to the police."

Merly explained that the climber had stumbled upon the box early September, and even noted that some of the sachets containing the precious stones had "Made in India" stamps on them.

As of late, French authorities are trying to connect and talk to its Indian counterparts to trace and identify the heirs of the Mont Blanc treasure.

Under French law, it is said that the jewelry could be handed over or surrendered to the mountaineer, who found it, if the rightful heirs are not identified, Merly said.

Yahoo! News reported that two Air India planes reportedly crashed into Mont Blanc in 1950 and in 1966. More often than not, climbers of the glacier or the area near it, were reported to have found several items from the crash including: fine debris, baggage, and even human remains.

In September 2012, India reportedly took the possession of bag of diplomatic mail from the Kangchenjunga, a Boeing 707 flying from Mumbai, but had apparently crashed on the southwest face of Mont Blanc in January 24, 1966.

Several reports noted that time that the Indian plane crashed included the pioneer of India's nuclear programme, Homi Jehangir Bhabha.