and how do they go about it are there modern day treasure maps where x. really marks the spot i've been in mine shaft scarred the secrets of gemstone still buried deep beneath the earth. the border between europe and asia the word girls men belt an old turkey and a chain of precious and semiprecious stone deposits that follows the mountain range for hundreds of kilometers from north to south has long been known as the gemstone belt of the. heart of the gemstone delta some a kilometer is north of egypt. the landscape is dotted with defunct pits. anatoly in a forest ranger lives in a log cabin near the abandoned simeone in sky a mine shaft which was famous for its rich deposits in the nineteenth century. the most valuable gems can be found here.

crystal and maureen. like. 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 really great rewards for some practitioners. look the part that means a vein runs somewhere from the northeast. to southwest. as 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 cross over each other like this. what we don't know is the. way. to get closer to the contacts this is where the closest to the surface. where you won't find anything but splinters through. three diggers are looking for blue aquamarine crystals in an old pit looking for gems just 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. here. now. they know what to do and their intuition helps dave determine the 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 must be some crystals in the. blue crystals inside milk white cts thick sticky substance these are not used for jury they're mainly for collectors if. you know you might find something like this. these miners are certain they'll hit their streak of luck some day and many even 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 i've come to you in

all humility with an open heart not with evil toltz 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 tried just a soul that had worked. 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 and links this is the birthplace of geologist. emerald said the main line of his research. from time immemorial people here have literally been sitting on them or 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 the swampy banks of the talk of a river produced a geological sensation in the early nineteenth century it is in one thousand one stumbled on pale aquamarine colored stone. it took them to a concert in new york where scientists said they were. 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 aroldis 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 why did they see emeril of the supposed to be a green color i will create a 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 olds it's seen better days barrel 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. parents live in militia. 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 byproduct 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 euro 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. files you see in the background have been flushed only once the second flushing will reveal that the ra still gemstones their so-called crude crystals 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 but. you want to know why the place has this name anyone without special qualifications can find

gems there will still be the envy of any collector now here's a valuable stone. it seems to be a bear 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 clothes if occasionally. but here in the urals is just called the emerald green or. some jewelry firms indian ones in particular are only too ready to buy such cheap stones they're specially treated and then resold at the price of emeralds. aleksandr 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 and other

methods will 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 important 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. gemstone is closer to the soul a feel look at solar maybe because it's russian and. there's a fountain in front of the museum in the small courtyard visitors are immediately drawn to its rich decoration covered in uncut chunks of greenish barrel it stands

as a monument to the locals love for their gemstones. mine . tried to reason with germany. a. safety net for themselves ninety nine the whole of the. security in one thousand failed and it's still on the agenda. every month we give you the future we help you understand how. to bring the best in science and technology from across russia and around the world technology update on our keep. the old village of at the very center of

the year old gemstone belt legend has it that a long time ago women and children used to wash ruby and sapphire stones at the cattle's watering hole today college undergraduates would be geologists come here from moscow each summer to get hands on training they stay at the house which once belonged to a local priest and like some that 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 pink crystals were uncovered a hundred years ago and where nickel was produced in the soviet era russia. don't talk to.

it's. 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 at this 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 era 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 furnace is to produce nickel.

what you've got there. oh yeah it's real big family well worth the effort. 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. ok let's get in there to see if anything is left of the vane. well it's a bit ok for you pin you know you stay put for a while and. sometimes people do get inside the veins 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 know who it was really this transgender is for exploration he would accuse the merchant workmen mind of the beauty 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 in manger should be down there. a mill the belong to the merchant who own the pits stood here by the riverside a long time ago stories of servants treasures are well known but all that remains of the mill are wall fragments and old grindstones lying in the grass the mill produced more than simple flour. for those of us here is his silver mill it's made flour but they also can the hope of finding gold

in it is there and they mined stones in these pits for ancestors did work hard but then the stones had a heart of value they worked like titans and they got paid for the job their work was well done say to. nearly every village and a chance to build one or two more shots handling semiprecious stones most of the people working in cramped conditions using more now obsolete equipment are 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 and you've got to look at a new boost if you can give it up just like that when these stones are like little

kids when you first hold them and 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 model s. . several times a year stone cutters come to you catherine board to attend a fair featuring serpents and i rode a night 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.

work with local stones everybody is trying to make goods for popular consumption. there's a brisk trade in melaka where firms that year at the fair the euro master scoffed at african malakai because of its banal striped pattern. that used to be mined in the euros is only found in museums. deposits have been completely exhausted. what do people take home from the year old gemstones jasper and mill a kind. of the stone as they so shape. but this malecon 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 spots 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. of the 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 bottle flows and leaves only then did i realize that stones could never be time. on display at the museum of stones and. a celebrated collector owns these pieces. his collection isn't limited to. 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. on how to master more than two thousand diatoms i realize that this fine collection should belong to my hometown and everybody must have a chance to see its. shiksha if is the stone afficionado 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 is an image that's jim out in the open. your mind dunning i talk to these colored courts. they're really wonderful they help me forget any

problems or misfortune. with. many of these stones were mine at the same place where the legendary mining engineer found gemstones one hundred years ago academics went to for advice and he made great contributions to geology though he never revealed all his secrets or he was the first and only one to find diamonds here. 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 but pits that's own. until issued shy of joining city gave their rector 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. 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 gorge 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. for you should be done very carefully if you've got clever fingers you'll make a nice rose very beautiful if. science is yet on ravel all the mysteries of the gemstone belt. researchers studying old gemstone pits mapped them according to the accounts of pioneers who often refused to disclose all of their secrets. i myself don't believe in mysteries a mystery is simply something you don't know a good miner has no secrets except a place where he's working but on the roof there are many pits. to be found in the gemstone belt of course but their contents remain unknown with nobody knows

the. 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 is gemstone deposit has 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 and place as soon as the engine is here the winch will start working. but. records say this plant was forty meters deep when a large nast of crystals was found at a depth of only fourteen metres. this means that the main has good prospects but the because apparently they were planning to mine stones at a lower level if the p.t.

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 shafts that produced riches for over a hundred years. deep beneath the earth's surface stones are just waiting for someone to rediscover their unique beauty. so biz the entertainment value of the insel trade incidence presentation high production the success of its graphic so. all of this is

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in broadcasting live from our studios in central moscow this is our t.v. certainly glad to have you with us a twelve year old russian boy abandoned in the caribbean more than half a decade ago has returned home there are fears that the child might have been sold into slavery or exchanged for drugs artie's dumbarton brings us the full story. home. after allegedly being sold for drugs only at the side of the willed physical abuse and five years in an orphanage twelve year old denise is finally back in his native russia the full extent of his suffering isn't just as you might have been taken to the dominican republic as a slave in exchange for drugs.