turkic and the chain of precious and semiprecious stone. south has long been known as the gemstone belt of the. north to be. dotted with defunct. anatoly in a forest ranger lives in a log cabin near the abandoned mine shaft which was famous for its rich deposits in the nineteenth century. crystal. to copper wires bent at the right angle and placed inside metal tubes point to a gemstone vein. this may be geological prospecting on the cheap but it's

a method that's great rewards for some practitioners. look the part that means the. northeast. west. soon as we move away from the vein and then go back to their initial position. here they tell us there are lots of veins there all over the place here's another one and. as soon as we move away they go back to their initial position i think the energy coming from the people in the earth's magnetic field play a part in this when you go along a vein come across a hollow where the sticks prosser over each other like this. what we don't know is the depth of the vein.

to give you get closer to the contacts this is where the vein comes close to the surface. where you will find anything but splinters through. three diggers are looking for blue aquamarine crystals in an old pit looking for jams as these diggers way of life many of them do it as a sideline but some are full time professionals. here it gets out of the service. in the old days. right here. now. they know what to do and their intuition helps dave determine the vanes direction and now they're trying to break through to it as they remove a pile of stones. there are some pretty big chunks here. we examine them. and break them up. there might be some crystals in the.

blue crystals inside milk white cts thick and sticky substance these aquamarine are not used for jury they're mainly for collectors if you diggers patient and lucky enough you might find something like this. all these miners are certain they'll hit their streak of luck some day and many been seek support from the mistress of the copper mountain. local people regard her as the patron saint of diggers. she appears as a magical lizard wearing a golden crown. my dear kind lady to you in all humility with an open heart not with evil folds please give me a nice stone don't leave me out to dry help me find the church's stone first i was skeptical about it but when i try there's

a soul that works. this stretch of highway follows an underground strip of rock packed with emeralds beryl and alexandra the year old emerald banda some thirty kilometers wide and about two kilometers in length this is the birthplace of geologist. emeralds are the main line of his research. from time immemorial people here have literally been sitting on the emirates and some of the veins are forty to fifty meters below ground a long time ago the french dug for emeralds and beets they used to be nearby you might say people are walking on emeralds but you can see for yourself. i these swampy banks of the river produced a geological sensation in the early nineteenth century. it is eleven thousand one stumbled on pale aqua marine colored stone. it took them to your content in a book where scientists said they were emeralds in the summer of eight hundred

thirty one emeralds were found right here on the banks of this river and exactly in first bits these unique emeralds were found. jim stone experts regard emeralds found in the urals is the best in the world they use a special scale to assess the color and transparency of a stone but there's another special quality of these your old chum stones that won't appear on any scale but what did they see emeril of the supposed to be a green color i hope they don't look at this one you see a trace of blue in that this means they come from a pit yes this blue streak tells you that they were dug out from. the village of mali the emerald capital of the year old it's seen better days beryl was produced here in the soviet era a strategic material used in nuclear reactors before the early one nine hundred

eighty s. it was mined in an open pit later an underground mine was built on the site. post parents live in mali. his father is a mining engineer he spent a lifetime working in the chefs. with the. produce a more strategically important enterprise. in those days. were just a mine product so to speak the break up of the soviet union in the economic downturn that followed in its wake eventually brought production to a halt demolish if pitt has been closed since one thousand nine hundred three its equipment is gradually falling into disrepair only heavy duty pumps are still in operation pumping out subterranean water from the pit. scientists say some seven hundred kilograms of emeralds valued at twenty four million dollars could be produced here each year but the pit remains closed meanwhile law enforcement officials say that up to fifteen thousand carats of your all emeralds are illegally

traded annually supplied by informal miners who take emeralds from wherever they can find them most often it's from garden piles of refuse that abandoned mine shafts. piles you see in the background have been flushed only once flushing will reveal that the roskilde gemstones their so called crude crystal that. these waste piles have been flushed three times but they no longer belong to anybody some call them the miracle field others the field of fools if. you want to know why the place has this name anyone without special qualifications can find gems there would be the envy of any collector now here's a valuable stone. it seems to be a bare ileum crystal it doesn't look too good as it's covered with dust and claims that. it isn't fact an emerald in accordance with international close if occasional

. but here in the urals is just called the emerald green or. some jewelry firms indian once in particular are only too ready to buy such cheap stones they're specially treated and then resold at the price of emeralds. aleksandr a cell of on a fist generally recognized as an expert on the certification of emeralds and other precious stones the certificate guarantees that the customer is not mining so-called refined beryllium or to put it plainly fake emeralds. emeralds are a variety of. only different color. painting radioisotopes some other method would change their color. has set up a certification center in the town of study and. in addition he's founded a private museum of minerals and jewelry complete with gem cutting workshops the

art of stone cutting alone produces unique gems from emeralds and more modest semi-precious stones like topaz amethyst and other colored crystals. each gemstone splinter or even a plain looking one is given a new lease on life imported as well as local stones are cut here but local stones no matter how plain they might be are dearer to the master's hearts. closer to the song. because. visitors are immediately drawn to it. it stands as a monument to the locals love. the

old village at the very center of the year. a long time ago women and children used to wash. at the cattle watering hole today college graduates would. come here from moscow each some. to get hands on training they stay at the house which once belonged to a local priest alexander is a prospector with years of experience. he takes the students on a guided tour of an old quarry where he tells them about the nuts and bolts of his job. they go to a place where piles of paint. covered a hundred years ago and where nickel was produced in the soviet era. one.

show me. you can see right through it but it's. the students look like seasoned digger says they flush the rock hunting for beautiful stones fires anyone with enthusiasm once they get their hands a bit dirty. the students and their professors in the praise of the professional digger. this is a captivating and useful experience they feel more confident this is obvious even from the way they move about the skills they get here in the classroom. only through personal contacts that each small find is a delight for them like a valuable gift in

a different sacks full of much bigger trauma lines were hauled from here to village fairs it's impossible to estimate how many of these were incinerated in to produce nickel. what you've got there. oh yeah it's real big well worth the effort so there's a praiseworthy stone. well more or less how are we going to divide them among us. from time to time the pit steep sides reveal gemstone outcroppings dangerous rift was discovered only a few years ago diggers got away with the crystals in no time but they were at risk of being buried alive in a massive landslide that is impossible people let's get in there to see if anything is left of the vein. but as for you pinion you stay put for a while. sometimes people do get inside the veins but this is dangerous.

numerous gemstone pits are scattered in the forests around the village but few people know where gemstones were mined in the old days. you did not know what it was really this transgender is for exploration. of the merchant world man mind it's supposed to be they were off the top barrel but they were only the top layer there are several pits here who would fit you thirty to forty percent of them and certainly not more than fifty percent have been worked out there may be down there but it's. a mill that belonged in the merchant who own the pits stood here by the riverside a long time ago stories of treasures are well known but all that remains of the miller wall fragments and old grindstones lying in the grass the mill produced more

than simple flour. from the. here is his. it made flour but they also can the hope of finding gold in it is there and they mined stones in these pits or ancestors did work hard but then the stones had a heart of value they worked like titans and they got paid for the job the work was well done say to. nearly every religion a chance to build one or two workshops handling semiprecious stones most of the people working in cramped conditions using worn out obsolete equipment or self-taught craftsmen. these workshops are anything but cost effective they can survive because marginal people don't stay long.

it's not an easy job if you're doing it you've got to look at a new booth as you can't give it up just like that when you have these stones are like little kids when you first hold them in your hands they're rough but you know what you need to work and polish them and only then do they look so much. these are my kids polished and sparkling. looking modeless. several times a year stone cutters come to you considering board to attend a fair featuring serpent tonight rhoda knight jasper cornelian and many more their wares reflect the whole spectrum of semiprecious stones found in the urals these are pieces of art made from landscape jasper from the southern year olds and these are all lumps of rock crystal from the northern end of the same mountain range other tables display deskilling jewelry from the traditional ural school most of

the masters and diggers have known one another for years there aren't that many new faces. only a handful of monsters in the urals work with local stones everybody is trying to make goods for popular consumption. there's a brisk trade in melaka where from zero at the fair the euro master scoffed at african malakai because of its banal strikes a pattern. that used to be mined in the euro's is only found in museums local malakai deposits have been completely exhausted. what do people take home from the urals gemstones jasper and mill a kind those are the stones they so shape with are original but this malakai is from africa most people are well aware of the fact they're still willing to buy an . artist a lego pile of cards flowers from stone he matches and with this petals with leaves

made of nephrite nephrite leaves look exactly like the real thing pots and all. tiny silver pins are used to hold parts of the flower together because the glue doesn't last long alone the flower itself is more durable and it can never weather . the light radiates through its petals and the flower seems alive but looks are deceptive as the lifeless flower is hard and cool to the touch. stone as. if it doesn't feel like being a flower it's going to be one in the beginning on made several attempts to tame stones but nothing came of it. as a result i had a whole bucket of stone flows and leaves only then did i realize that stones could never be time. on display at the museum of stones and. collector owns

these pieces. his collection isn't limited to ural stones he's devoted a lifetime to it. around the world recognize that his unique municipal authorities have helped him set up a museum of his own. two thousand diatoms i realize that this fine collection should be long to my hometown and everybody must have a chance to see it's. in his own right widely known in the. his home collection is nothing spectacular but each item reveals a bit about him. just look at these sugar like crystals. very unusual. and this isn't some of this gem.

out in the open. you. talk to these colored courts. and they're really wonderful. forget any problem or misfortune. many of these stones were mind at the same place where the legendary mining engineer didn't have found gemstones one hundred years ago academics went to for advice and he made great contributions to geology though we never revealed all his secrets or he was the first and only one to find. he found for twelve carats. just couldn't find a single one in many years until a ship shy of devoted himself to studying old maps and the legacy of past mining engineers by retracing their forgotten paths. there are no records of the

legacy of our ancestors none what nothing about pits. until issued shy of joining city gave director of the rez have mineralogical reserve on frequent visits to the pits to assess their deposits. exploring the pits is going to require a lot of digging. there's nothing but barren rock here no crystallization. there is something left. if we have to find some big samples. ok let's get on with the job. diggers rely on telltale signs rather than intuition they know that if they don't see such signs there's no point in messing about in that vein here is

a very thin vein its center than your little finger there will be a bulge but make no mistake about it joins the torch vein over there crystals all over the place i'm telling you. this pit was once thought to be empty but there are still some treasures to be found if the crystal is flushed and polished it will begin to sparkle. should be done very carefully if you've got clever fingers you'll make a nice brooch very beautiful if. science is yet on ravel all the mysteries of the gemstone belt. researchers studying old gemstone pits mapped them according the accounts of pioneers who often refuse to disclose all of their secrets. here myself i don't believe in mysteries a mystery is simply so. thing you don't know a good miner has no secrets except

a place where he's working. there are many pits to be found in the gemstone belt. but their contents remain unknown with nobody knows. day in and day out they go from one pit to another driving an all terrain vehicle through the forests where their forefathers also mind. the secrets of old miners are being put back on the maps this immune and sky pit is a case in point it's gemstone deposit as not been exhausted. the winch is still in good order the pain has not even peeled off and the rope remained from the soviet times if you still find. people we need to do is to put the engine on place as soon as the engine is here the winch will start working. but old records say this point was forty meters deep with that one a large nasty of crystals was found at

a depth of only fourteen meters. this means that the vein has good prospects but the because apparently they were planning to mine stones at a lower level if the p.v. is to be restored and made up aeration all this will require an outlay of at least one hundred million roubles but it's not yet clear who will furnish that kind of capital. if water is pumped out miners could regain access to chefs that produced riches for over a hundred years. deep beneath the earth's surface gemstones are just waiting for someone to rediscover their unique beauty. culture is that so much is really made a lot of people a fair enough but new leaders in the world polarized opinions more than venezuelan

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their world needs twenty four hours a day you're watching r.t. a russian boy whose adoptive parents allegedly sold him for drugs in the dominican republic on the plane back home abandoned on the caribbean island and during tough years and often edges of the world denise is now getting ready for a new life in russia tom barton reports. abandoned on the other side of the world twelve year old russian denis has been to many can often inch for five years but it's believed his fate might have been much worse just give us what he might have been taken to the dominican republic as a slave in exchange for drugs or it may have been an organ trade the judicial investigation couldn't clarify all the circumstances now we should make speculations just because the boy can't explain what happened the dog didn't volgograd region his foster parents moved to the dominican republic in two thousand and four years later they returned to russia turning.