these men are cutting and polishing precious stones and cheap among the treasures the most famous greenstone of them all emerald if you will it should be large one hundred percent translucent with a main properties being color quality and weight it also depends how often the precious stone is found in nature. most of them will find their way into jewelry and display pieces but as anonymous as these stones seem with the urals the vast majority don't even come from russia when you know you know one person locally developed precious stones here it's very sad and i even feel a sort of pain because they do their business is the older understands it's not with the urals the short of these gems quite the opposite in fact precious stones were so easy to find while the cottage industry grew up here around them that nobody bothered to invest much in surveying what deposits exist let alone extracting them and once metals were discovered such as beryllium which is used in military applications little was thought of destroying the emeralds in which it's normally found. there are still thought to be enorm