one emeralds were found right here on the banks a list river and exactly in first bits these unique ammar olds 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 amaryllis 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 ok it yes there is a 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 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. post 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 th