Honestly a million dollars for that massive geode seems like a bargain considering how unique it is and how much work it took.

@redbarchetta8782

5 ай бұрын

I see a piece like that being at the entrance of a museum of natural history somewhere.

@GreatSageSunWukong

5 ай бұрын

I'd want that in my hall

@alexalexy1809

5 ай бұрын

rich arabs can buy it

@mkbane1262

5 ай бұрын

Considering it just being an art piece

@Crispr00

5 ай бұрын

@@redbarchetta8782exactly, museum, not your friends house

It’s a breath of fresh air to see workers doing stuff like this actually having proper equipment and protection.

@ryandavis7390

5 ай бұрын

Except for the complete lack of respiration equipment! 😮

@SexyEarHair

5 ай бұрын

@@ryandavis7390 Not to mention that when they had safety glasses they still just wore them on their head not their eyes lmao

@_Ekaros

5 ай бұрын

@@ryandavis7390 One guy had respirator... I wonder if others just refuse those...

@blooperman1997

5 ай бұрын

@@_Ekaros Don't need a respirator for wet saws and the only guy we actually saw drilling did use one so I'd assume they all do.

@DTMharlot

5 ай бұрын

@@blooperman1997 He was using a disc grinder at one point on the stones and it was very clearly putting death powder into the air....

Honestly in my opinion that 26ton behemoth is priceless and should be displayed. A single Geode that big has got to be insanely rare.

@C4TC4T

3 ай бұрын

It is, especially with how intact it is; the most challenging part about finding large specimens like this, is figuring out how one would excavate and transport it, without damaging it

@MurderBong

3 ай бұрын

IF IT WAS FOUND IN ONTARIO CANADA IT WOULD BE 25X MORE $ 😅

@user-ii8jj5sg6m

Ай бұрын

Nobody wants to hear your damn opinion

@helton_ss

Ай бұрын

Like always. The wealth of the Americas is sucked and exploited by rich countries.

My grandpa is a former miner with an experience of 27 years (surely, at the end of his service, he did a sitting job). Nevertheless, he told me it was obligatory to wear a respirator when entering the mine, and he wore. But today he suffers from silicosis and many other diseases. He cheers us up saying he must be a record holder in longevity among miners (he's 81), although that means all his friends have passed away. The lesson of the day is as follows: if my grandpa caught silicosis while wearing protective equipment, the fate of those working in dusty environment without protection will be less optimistic, unfortunately.

@OG_BiggusDickus

5 ай бұрын

The way people catch it even when wearing a respirator is by the dust on their clothes, you take your respirator off and change clothes making the dust on your clothes airborne over the decades that minute amount still catches up with you.

@jlo7770

3 ай бұрын

I was a minor for 18 years. Pretty impressive he did it for 27!

@ncd2164

3 ай бұрын

@@jlo7770LMFAOOO wtf 😂

@VonHanzee

3 ай бұрын

mostly bullshit half truths from a hohol

@cheapskate8656

3 ай бұрын

Very high risk here because of the quartz its almost pure silicon. Poor buggars.

That massive stone at the starting is gonna make a hell of a center piece at a millionaire's house

@duncanbananatyne3890

3 ай бұрын

Hopefully it goes to somewhere public.

@cohandora

Ай бұрын

gonna make a hell of a piece to clean also

@ESan-lh6dq

Ай бұрын

​@@cohandora thats what the rich guys maids are for.

@garrydye2394

Ай бұрын

No collector is buying something that expensive that is not rare. Big but common is not what collectors are after. What something is priced at and what something actually sells at can be night and day. I've been a fossil deale for over 25 years. This piece is not in high demand. Come back in 20 years and he will still be paying to store it at that price.

@JamesBrown-rd8og

Ай бұрын

AGREE : (((((@@cohandora

The purple color is not caused by Iron atoms releasing light, which would be luminance. Ionizing radiation converts Fe3+ ions in place of Si in the lattice into [FeO4]0 color centers, which are purple.

@alexs-fo6jz

5 ай бұрын

Yeah, if the explanation in the video was correct, they would glow in the dark!

@mkbane1262

5 ай бұрын

Yeah I saw this too. If this was true then this crystal wouldn’t be so useless lmao

@brushmasterspaintingfranchise

5 ай бұрын

@@mkbane1262 useless? quartz is extremely useful.

@mkbane1262

5 ай бұрын

@@brushmasterspaintingfranchise amethyst

@brushmasterspaintingfranchise

5 ай бұрын

@@mkbane1262 You might want to do a little bit of research my friend. Amethyst is 100% quarts

It’s so fascinating seeing these formations in their natural habitat.

@Love_N_Let_Live

5 ай бұрын

If I was a buyer, I'd want the video of the geode in it's natural habitat, and a video of them first breaking it open.

@steveng7174

3 ай бұрын

"habitat"? Hahahaahahaah It's a fvcking rock, rocks don't have a habitat. How about the matrix that surrounds it. Yeah, that's it.

@steveng7174

3 ай бұрын

"habitat"? Hahahaahahaah It's a fvcking rock, rocks don't have a habitat. How about the matrix that surrounds it. Yeah, that's it.

@Nikedidaspuma

3 ай бұрын

@@steveng7174 man, stones have rights... 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

@mobstercrow7515

3 ай бұрын

I hope they release it back into the wild.

When I was a kid my parents took us on a holiday to Queensland and we went to a Crystal cave tourist place. The main attraction was a 6 foot amethyst. Getting to touch it is something I will never forget. We also got to break our own geode which was super cool.

@jlo7770

3 ай бұрын

I didn't know they got that big, I've only seen small ones it'd be cool to see some of those massive ones, makes you wonder what's under our feet that will never be found

@Boooney

3 ай бұрын

Atherton, QLD

@stonedcold5172

3 ай бұрын

The Crystal Castle a short drive into Byron Bay's hinterland has some of the largest in the world at 5.5 meters called the crystal guardians.

Ricardo not wearing a mask while grinding all that stone is nuts! What a craftsman though

@rebeccaadamson5972

5 ай бұрын

There's water on the grinder that keeps the dust out of the air so there's no risk of silicosis!

@evilsharkey8954

5 ай бұрын

Hopefully, it was just for a couple camera shots so they can see his face. He may even be holding his breath for those shots.

@evilsharkey8954

5 ай бұрын

@@rebeccaadamson5972There’s water on the diamond saw, but the angle grinder looks dry.

@Yo_Hahn

4 ай бұрын

@@rebeccaadamson5972 dont you see all the dust hes standing in? 😅

@helton_ss

Ай бұрын

Like always. The wealth of the Americas is sucked and exploited by rich countries.

I once worked for someone who had a large gem collection. Seeing one of those 6-foot tall amethyst geodes in person was breathtaking!

only 1 million?!

@AP90x

5 ай бұрын

That stuff is common asf.

@ew2645

5 ай бұрын

Right??! That was my thought.

@WhoDeanyUnchained

5 ай бұрын

My thoughts exactly

@roart3464

5 ай бұрын

It is a semi-precious stone, it is not valued as much as the Ruby, diamond and other precious stone because in our soil there is a lot of underground, although not all mines have high quality stones.

@ande100

5 ай бұрын

That is only for the geode as such, on location in Uruguay. Before expost, taxes, shipping, enormous insurance. Remember: the horse is the cheapest initial cost in becoming an equestrian 🐎.

Amethyst is amazing it even can have UV reactive calcite pieces in it. Its crazy how huge it can get. I'm so happy the workers have proper tools and gear on.

@Supremax67

2 күн бұрын

It is sad it has less value than diamonds due to rarity, but in terms of difficulty to get one in one piece and its unique properties, it should definitely have more value. A shame human society still base most of what is considered pricey based on how much there is available. That's not appreciation for beauty, that's greed.

This is such a wholesome job. Humans just digging for some shining cute purple rocks to look at.

@BlackTourmaline25

3 ай бұрын

Indians worship Trump in India. Why be condescending towards people and their livelihood

@cuneytunsal5422

3 ай бұрын

Its very wholesome when you think about workers health and wage 😂

@semekiizuio

3 ай бұрын

Perhaps in this mine and company but definitely not in other mines and companies. Pink quartz and jade for example had scene a documentary they pay cents and they have carry the geo on their backs

@johnbrewer227

3 ай бұрын

You’re right, so wholesome to think about there $2/hr wage topped off by a long slow death of silicosis by the time they’re 50. So wholesome ☺️☺️

@user-ll8cx9qq6p

3 ай бұрын

I'm very sorry, I wasn't aware of this so I didn't mean it like that@@johnbrewer227

I am not a jeweller, but studied geology and understand that amethyst formation is not related to radioactivity. Amethyst is a type of quartz that forms within cavities or voids in rocks, as they stated. The purple coloration in amethyst is due to the presence of iron impurities within the quartz crystal lattice, but radioactivity is completely irrelevant to the crystal formation and colour. The formation of amethyst typically occurs when silica-rich solutions (liquids) precipitate within these voids or cavities in rocks. As the solution cools down, quartz crystals begin to grow, and when there are traces of iron present, the purple coloration occurs. The specific coloration of amethyst can also be affected by the presence of trace elements and exposure to natural irradiation or heat, but this isn't tied to radioactivity. Radioactive elements, when present in minerals, can cause certain colorations in gemstones through natural irradiation (such as the famous green observed in uranium glass) but this is not the case for amethyst.

@PalaeoStuff

3 ай бұрын

It has been shown though that ionizing radiation can turn colorless quartz with iron impurities into proper amethyst with its characteristic purple color. And if not for radioactivity, where would this radiation come from? Cosmic rays could work on the surface, but won't reach deep in the rock. On the other hand, radioactive elements are naturally present in volcanic rock like in the deposit in the video, so it would be hard to explain how they could not have an effect. Heat can have an effect as well, sure, but it causes the color to turn yellowish instead. In the case of uranium glass, however, it being green is actually not due to radioactivity, that's just the color of the added colorants (some of which happen to be radioactive). If you're thinking about how it glows in the dark, that would be fluorescence under UV light.

@georgsteidl2249

Ай бұрын

@@PalaeoStuff yes

That was extremely breathtaking. i now have extremely huge respect for what this company and there workers . this place is now on my bucket list to visit

Thank you for featuring our treasurers! Each piece involves a lot of work and effort

@carolinaelichalt7913

5 күн бұрын

Arriba Uruguay!!!!!! Estuve por Artigas visitando otra compañía pero ya se que la proxima iré por ahi

“Takes a few million years to form” that shit is just crazy to think about

@andrebuckley9382

5 ай бұрын

it aint that long believe i. most things formed after the chaos on earth with the fighting an the disappearing act of most people across the world, which aloud crazy people from no where to show up and capture so many places for them selves even those so called royals all over the earth. mud flood events. the power of nature is fascinating to think leave nature be and it will produce wonders from past dead elements from giant stuff like the trees etc which are fossilized to stone to this day. along with those beast which looks like mountains at times

@abundantharmony

5 ай бұрын

Millions of years my left toe. You ever seen salt crystallize out of a super saturated solution? Same can happen in lava and even a slurry under pressure. They can grow crystals super quick in the lab with proper conditions regularly seen under the Earth.

@evilsharkey8954

5 ай бұрын

@@abundantharmonyNot true. Large crystals take much longer to form than small ones, even in a lab under controlled conditions. The temperature, level of saturation, pressure, solute composition, and other factors affect crystal growth rates. You can grow a good sized halite (salt) crystal fairly quickly. Quartz, not so much. Besides, the crystals in those vugs aren’t even formed by the lava. They’re formed by silica rich fluid seeping into the vugs and slowly crystallizing. Crystals formed by volcanism tend to be microscopic, like the crystals that make up basalt and other extrusive igneous rocks. The only way you get bigger crystals is if they form in magma that cools slowly deep underground or if the crystals didn’t completely melt from the last time they were crystallized (phenocrysts).

@abundantharmony

5 ай бұрын

@@evilsharkey8954 Don't put words in my mouth. I never said that large crystals don't take longer to form. That's the dumbest thing you could have tried to SAY I said. "Big trees take longer to grow than small trees." Sheesh, we got a thinker here folks.

@evilsharkey8954

5 ай бұрын

@@abundantharmony It’s not that ridiculous if you understand how crystals grow. Crystals have to grow more slowly to get big, not just for a longer time. On a related note: bigger trees don’t always take longer to grow. Some trees grow like weeds and quickly overtake trees that have been growing much longer. Conditions and type make a big difference in trees and in crystals. You also have to consider the growth process isn’t continuous, or the whole vug would be amethyst, when most of these geodes have an agate or chalcedony crust, often with bands indicating periods of increased and decreased growth. One cycle of crystal growth could happen geologically quickly under ideal conditions, but the conditions are frequently changing, so the total time to form is lengthened.

Stunning. I love purple, and amethyst has always been my favorite stone. Great video.

How brilliant this short film is ; from Quarry to factory to finished gems ; Excellent 🇬🇧

Wow, those things are super duper impressive !! .. beautiful too !! .. I had no idea those things could be so big.

Incredible. It must be extremely hard work, you'd come home feeling so rough at the end of the day, but I'm so grateful to these people for the work they do. I'll never be able to afford one of the big geodes (like they say, it IS a luxury) but I've always been fascinated by them and wondered how on Earth they get them out of the ground.

Wow! Maybe one day I might have a small amethyst geode of my own. This was very informative and interesting. Thanks

I have an amethyst geode sitting on top of my PC, and a 00 gauge plug of it in my ear. It's my favourite stone (don't ask me why, though. It just is). So cool to see the mining process.

@AB-hi6ru

5 ай бұрын

But why though?

this is such a welcomed video to watch at the moment. Thank you for sharing

Speechless. This is magnificent! Still, really want to know how they are going to transport those behemoth geodes. Bet it's going to be equally massive operation as well.

@lbguitar

3 ай бұрын

I have a measly 5 foot tall, 750 lb amethyst cathedral. It took 4 grown men a lot of swearing, back pain and equipment to move it into the house. They are incredibly dense and heavy. We always joke that if we ever sell the house, we simply have to include the amethyst into the price of the home because there's no way we are moving that again. I can only imagine how difficult it would be to move one of those megaliths around and the machinery it would take.

Beautiful, & thank you blue collar works❕Your the true earners of these mines.

Please do more videos on these mega minerals- quartz, rose quartz, citrine etc- love them ALL!

Those Amethyst are beautiful! Wish i had one similar to the one in my profile picture. Those giant Geode are light a never lasting night sky sparkling.

3:45 The picture you guys used to explain quartz is calcite it forms inside the geodes alongside the quartz

Breathtaking beauty. Thanks for this video.

Wow. Thanks for sharing.. really quite amazing!!

After watching this it is clear to me that the international jewellery companies have been pulling the wool over the eyes of consumers. Many times over the years I have heard again and again that lighter coloured Amethyst are of higher quality and put crazy high prices on them. What a scam. I personally have always liked darker amethyst.

@ArjanBakker

5 ай бұрын

never believe a salesperson

@evilsharkey8954

5 ай бұрын

Lighter colored amethyst is typically clearer and less likely to have imperfections. Amethyst also fades when exposed to UV light, so they may just be overcooked in their display cases.

@ANPC-pi9vu

3 ай бұрын

I've never heard any such thing, unless you are talking about rare forms like pink amethyst or lavender amethyst who's colors are altered by rare contaminants. Those are two light forms of amethysts that are more valuable, but they are also distinctive from merely a normal less irradiated amethyst. Another factor in quality for cut gems is uniformity of color. A lot of dark amethyst has strong color zoning which can hurt the value unless they can trim away the uneven parts.

@donnar4261

3 ай бұрын

Never heard of that...

No one can create such beauty like mother nature does!

@Ellen-hs7zb

5 ай бұрын

It's God, the father, the creator, altho' I get the mother nature metaphor.

@vice.nor.virtue

5 ай бұрын

i dunno the Sagrada Famillia is quite impresssive

@rizizum

5 ай бұрын

@@Ellen-hs7zb no, the devil made amethysts, stop with the blasphemy

@Zireael83

5 ай бұрын

@@Ellen-hs7zb There is no such thing as a "god" but each as it fits his education, I guess.

@Ellen-hs7zb

5 ай бұрын

@@Zireael83 Oh, really?

Looks like a starry sky, it's gorgeous that large piece.

This is truly fascinating! Interesting stuff!

Funny story, only reason why amethysts tanked in value is because companies like debeers decided not to control production of this mineral like the other expensive gems, not because they found massive deposits. It's all about control.

@Chris.Pontius

5 ай бұрын

Well it kinda is. They just didn't corner the market and ridiculously inflate the prices by hoarding all the stones, like other gems. Its a more natural decline than the others.

@VPCh.

5 ай бұрын

It's also far more common than diamond. Controlling the supply would be impossible when places like Thunder Bay have it everywhere.

@blacksorrento4719

5 ай бұрын

One of the best advertising marketing propaganda ploys ever perpetrated on the general public. A cartel made themselves very rich by controlling supply and demand. No 10 on Moh’s scale which is purely scratchability. Diamond have perfect cleavage, hit it on the right axis and your magnificent solitaire could be in pieces on the granite bench top. Fact: until machine cutting became the norm, cutters used to avoid diamonds, way too much risk. It is made up of carbon. Only difference between graphite, coal and diamond is heat & pressure.

@evilsharkey8954

5 ай бұрын

The deposits weren’t owned by DeBeers, so they couldn’t control the market. They used to control the majority of diamonds. Now there are other companies that all limit the available supply because they like making too much money on what’s best suited for accent stones around something prettier.

@VPCh.

5 ай бұрын

@@blacksorrento4719 I get what you are saying, but some of your points are a bit misleading. Diamonds are pretty interesting minerals. They aren't just a bit harder to scratch, but entire orders of magnitude harder. And the process that it takes for them to be shot out of the earth in kimberlite pipes is very cool. And then there's the industry applications. I'd also add that the only difference between you and a pile of mud is a couple organic processes and time. Are they overpriced? Absolutely. Are they still cool, yes.

I immediately opened the video in the hopes that the story would be located in my country because we are rarely in the map for anything.... 🙃 wasn't disappointed!

@NewLeaf7

5 ай бұрын

At least Uruguay is famous for Luis Suárez

@miiim

5 ай бұрын

@@NewLeaf7 haha I guess! I just remembered Chiellini 😭 lol

@carolinaelichalt7913

5 күн бұрын

Yayyyy nuestro UY

OMG they're beautiful!! It's breathtaking.

The center of that giant geode looks like a galaxy. So pretty. It should be in a museum somewhere, can’t believe it’s only $1 million

Ricardo should be wearing something to protect him from breathing in the rock dust.

@GaryCat899

5 ай бұрын

yeah i gasped omg

@evilsharkey8954

5 ай бұрын

I’m hoping he was just doing a brief shot for the camera and holding his breath. I doubt he’d have lived that long if he wasn’t wearing a respirator most of the time.

Those giant geodes are just overwhelming.

One word... stunning💜

What a neat documentary, I would love to see more like these 😊and about more geodes. Maybe the Arkansas quartz?

Nice to see a wholesome thriving business were everyone seems to have the proper equipment and work in decent conditions and where they seem to do ok whether it is considered a high or low value item by the global economy.

I love, LOVE amethysts 💜

Gotta love those beautiful crystals!

Beautiful video, thank you

I had NO CLUE that amethyst geodes could get THAT big! Wow!

@ANPC-pi9vu

3 ай бұрын

There is a volcanic mountain in Mexico containing a cave system that is all a giant geode you can walk inside of... but only for a short time and with a space suit with a cooling system in it to protect you from the extreme heat. There's a video of researchers inside of it examining massive individual crystal points far larger than people.

@sporqist

3 ай бұрын

@@ANPC-pi9vu Sounds super interesting. Mind sharing the name of that video or the name of the cave?

Nice to see them actually having decent PPE and mine safety. I'm a geologist and it's very rare to have mines in those countries having safe working conditions. Half the time you will see them wearing sandals and uncontrolled collapses are a daily occurrence.

@awibs57

5 ай бұрын

Yes, this was my first thought as well. Loved that the owner was Uruguayan too, and not some misplaced pasty British person who owns the estate.

@evilsharkey8954

5 ай бұрын

@@awibs57There’s a pasty American who is a major dealer of these types of geodes and giant quartz crystals from Brazil, but he buys from the local miners and dealers and distributes them to buyers elsewhere. He’s not their boss.

@jam6636

5 ай бұрын

"Those Countries"?

@evilsharkey8954

5 ай бұрын

@@jam6636 Poorer countries where minerals are mined, primarily for Western consumption. Rich corporations could provide workers with PPE, but then they would make slightly less money.

@jam6636

4 ай бұрын

@@evilsharkey8954 So in "richer countries" always use correct PPE?, no workers problems? are there no massive swaths of land polluted to the point of no return?

I truly enjoyed that!!!

The biggest gem in this video is the fact the workers are wearing protection! Kudos to someone caring about their people

The purple comes from the iron atoms in the amethyst changing their oxidation states from 3+ to 4+, which alters the absorption spectrum which results in this colour, it doesn't magically 'burn off energy'

One million dollars for such an MASSIVE geode, yet an blue diamond wheighting just a few grams can be EASILY sold for 10x that value...

@simonmessenger7217

Ай бұрын

It's a supply and demand issue. There's obviously more amethyst than diamond which significantly affect their value. If something is harder to mine out of the ground it's value goes up. Also diamond has to be extensively cut/processed

Cool. Thanks for sharing.

imagine this in ancient times, this would have made the perfect king/queen throne, back in the days!

These workers that are grinding the rocks could benefit from ppe. Wesring a mask to filter out the dust will prolong their life. Breathing in the rock dust is very dangerous.

@evilsharkey8954

5 ай бұрын

I think the one guy is just doing a couple of clips with his respirator off for the video. He may even be holding his breath. He wouldn’t have gotten that old breathing silica dust.

Mother nature takes millions of years to pull this off! 🥰 They are priceless! 🌠

I rockhound in my local mountians and my favorite pieces have multiple formations inside of them.. these are amazing specimens..

As a gemstone collector, I love amethysts but not nearly as much as Australian Black Opals. ABOs take the top spot for me but the amethysts in this video justifies why I still hold this gemstone so highly underneath ABOs. I would love to visit Uruguay to explore the mines where my collection of amethysts are most likely from. Thank you Business Insider for doing what you do!

@woah4604

3 ай бұрын

HAHAHAHAHAHA YOU COLLECT GEMSTONES HAHAHAHAHAH FKING SNOWFLAKE LMFAOOOOOOOOO

@obnoxiouspedant

3 ай бұрын

​@@woah4604k

@ferretyluv

3 ай бұрын

How many Breaking Bad jokes do you have to deal with daily?

@justsomesaltyboi8716

3 ай бұрын

@@ferretyluv 0 cause nobody has ever brought it up

@ferretyluv

3 ай бұрын

@@justsomesaltyboi8716 Seriously? Nobody’s said “Jesus Christ Marie, they’re minerals?”

Feel we all used to have a piece of amethyst when we were kids 😅

for me it's so beautiful.. any purple gem looks majestic

It is so amazing that these gemstones along with diamonds, rubies, sapphires, etc are found in the earth

Amethyst is such a beautiful gemstone. Purple is a royalty color. Very beautiful and exquisite. But I really haťe how its value became so cheap and this gem is almost neglected compared to other gems!!! Who tf don't want an amethyst jewelry???🥺

@evilsharkey8954

5 ай бұрын

You can’t wear it in the sun too much or it will fade. Also, a lower value means more people can afford to buy it.

Can’t imagine first born people who walked on these precious stones just like an ordinary tile and now million of years later the amount of time and effort before you can get a very good type of amethyst 😍

@preoximerianas

3 ай бұрын

You got your timeline for humans slightly off.

@poonoi1968

3 ай бұрын

@@preoximerianas shhh 🤫

@CaliforniaCarpenter7

3 ай бұрын

Erm... I think you... nevermind.

So beautiful! Love them

Amazing doc !!!!! Thx a lot !!!!

Wow that's impressive

Omg I wanna stand inside of one

Amethyst is my favourite gem colour, didn't know they're plenty about.

I can stare at it all day, it looks therapeutic to look at.

6:59 I’m no expert. But that can’t be good for his lungs 😮‍💨

@DTMharlot

5 ай бұрын

Thought the exact same thing and then 30 seconds later at 7:31 he almost pushed his finger into the saw.... This guy won't be around in 20 years.

@haryjackazzgaming1813

5 ай бұрын

Yeah silica dust from quarts causes construction workers and miners to get lung cancer. I'm glad the others at least were using air filtration masks

@bikedawg

5 ай бұрын

he will get pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

@nfrench2100

5 ай бұрын

@@bikedawg precisely what I was thinking only I couldn’t spell it so I didn’t mention it 🤷🏼‍♂️

@laramaaike3050

5 ай бұрын

@@bikedawg I guess you are the kid? 😂

I just go on my boat and look in the ocean for amethyst geodes, then dive down with a pickaxe. That's how I get my amethyst when I need it for tinted glass.

@Andresmartinez-bh4cw

5 ай бұрын

Lmao

Many years ago in Canada I had a house built on 5 acres. In that house I had built a floor to ceiling 8 feet, wall to wall 14 feet fireplace made with 4 tons on amethyst with a 3" thick black marble sill by a skilled stone mason. It also had a semicircle hearth and a semicircular cave for firewood on one end. It was spectacular and when lit up by recessed ceiling lights the amethyst sparkled.

Straight up looks like staring into a pocket dimension into space. So cool

just like diamond it should costs less but the hoarding of companies make the price sour high...

6:58 please for his health get this man a respirator, breathing in basalt dust is going to destroy his lungs.

Love this stone’s colour! 💜💜💜💜

💯 por ciento recomendado para ir de visita ...una maravilla de Uruguay...

The explanation about radation causing iron to give off visible light is quite misleading and just bad. Whilst radiation may be a contributing factor in the formation of the crystal and the iron impurity's charge state. The colour of amaythist like most things is determined by its atomic structure; iron impurities in the silicon dioxide are responsible for the purple color. The explanation given in the video is clearly a confused misinterpretation that really gives the wrong idea. Light is actually electromagnetic-radation and the iron atoms do respond to that "radiation" (visable light) to give off visable light - but not in the way that the video implies (ionizing radiation) in normal conditions.

ima be honest, an amethyst that big and pristine should cost WAY more than a million dollars.

When I went on vacation two years ago to Artigas I was able to meet a miner, he told me what working in the mines was like and gave him a small piece of amethyst.

Very nice crystals in purple color❤

My lungs hurt for those poor souls😢

What a wonderful resource they can exploit.

@vice.nor.virtue

5 ай бұрын

Well, like what do you expect them to do? Leave all this money buried under tonnes of rock where no one can see it?

@evilsharkey8954

5 ай бұрын

It beats bulldozing rainforest to graze cattle. At least this is a fairly small area, and the value extracted is high.

@rudiruttger

5 ай бұрын

@@vice.nor.virtue uhm, did you think the word exploit is bad or something? I clearly think this is a good thing.

@vice.nor.virtue

5 ай бұрын

@@rudiruttger Well, honestly yeah actually. 99% of the time anyone says _exploit_ it's in relation to something negative whether it be natural resources (specifically fossil fuels)) , ivory and other animal resources and of course a history of low paid or slave labor

@rudiruttger

5 ай бұрын

@@vice.nor.virtue exploit is a word that isn't immediately a negative, it's the context of usage, and exploiting a resource just means you're making use of it.

That's the kind of video they should have shown us in high shcool to make us interested in geology. That video was awesome

wooww that firts time i see huge crystal stone in my life..

i love amethyst. i would gratefully accept any amethyst given to me. yet looking at the process it takes to extract this wonderful crystal, as well as how long it takes to form, much of the crystals should be left where they are, preserved. perhaps it would add to the value & give reason to travel to visit the places where they are. i do appreciate those who do this cause i may have never felt the energy of holding an amethyst, as well as other crystals. we all benefit from the extraction of various resources -- so the show goes on. appreciate this video as it gives me more respect for everything involved. peace amor

@ANPC-pi9vu

3 ай бұрын

You would not get to see them preserved where they are because they are buried inside volcanic rocks and filled with water. It's not like a cave system with the crystals simply lining the walls or something.

If I was a multimillionaire rapper or a singer And I have 2 choices 1. A 1 million worth of Diamond chain(probably crazy big) 2. A fricking Jurassic Park worthy showpiece in my house I wouldn’t even think twice😂

@vice.nor.virtue

5 ай бұрын

Diamonds are a total rip-off anyway. They're not even rare, it's just because DeBeers is a monopoly controlling the flow of diamonds into markets across the world that they can artificially raise the price because of the economics of supply and demand.

Wow. Fascinating!

there is or used to be a shop in Glastonbury that imported these, the biggest one they had was about 4 feet high, purple inside and very impressive when lit with LED lighting,

Imagine turning that massive amethysts geome into a throne or a chair, I can imagine being a billionaire or a Emperor and sitting down in that huge geome and curve the bottom to be like a throne but the upper part intact. How intense beauty that would be too and a show of power!

@evilsharkey8954

5 ай бұрын

You’d need a cushion. Geodes are made of cold, hard rock!

That massive geode needs to be in a museum. It is too precious to be owned by a sole buyer. Imagine how much enjoyment people could get out if it if it were properly displayed with the right lighting.

@moos5221

4 ай бұрын

It needs to be in a museum IN Uruguay. It shouldn't be sitting in London or Paris, it should be in the country where it originates from so the citizens there can see it. Just like with any other cultural heritage and geological treasure...it should be made available to the people who live in the land it originates from instead of being stashed away in the cellar of a museum with enough funds to purchase everything.

@CalvinHikes

4 ай бұрын

Thank you for deciding what should be done with someone else's property

@moos5221

4 ай бұрын

@@CalvinHikes You don't understand the difference between someones property and a national treasure. You think if you'd find an ancient artifact on your property you could keep it? Same should be applied to natural treasures. That's my opinion, cry about it.

@ANPC-pi9vu

3 ай бұрын

Then buy it for a museum. These men put a lot of work and investment into getting that out of the ground, and what, you think they should just give it away?

@ANPC-pi9vu

3 ай бұрын

@@moos5221 You have no clue how museums actually work, do you? lmao

This is magnificent!

Love Amethyst. Just bought an amethyst ring last week. Waiting for it to be delivered. Next, I am eyeing a pendant so I'll have a matching jewelry pieces.

No links to the companies site?? I'm sure many people would love to buy the smaller or even big amethysts and the geodes! Counting myself as well lol. Why wouldn't they link their website or contact info?

@rebeckagilbert2905

5 ай бұрын

They may sell only in the wholesale market. It's a very large industry and they are sold by the pallets to other wholesale vendors. I technically work in the bead/jewelry world but the shop also sells some specimen's You should look for a local store that sells them in your community so you can enjoy the experience of picking the one that interests you the most.

If all the diamonds that are in storage were released onto the market, they wouldn't be worth any more than glass. I saw that on 60 Minutes many years ago.

@blacksorrento4719

5 ай бұрын

Precisely. Diamond is carbon, also one of the most prolific minerals on this planet. The only difference between graphite, coal and diamond is heat and pressure. Nothing special at all. I truly don’t get the all hype and ridiculous $ about diamonds, it been a brilliant piece of marketing propaganda. Give me a beautiful deep purple amethyst any day, and let diamonds play second fiddle.

@charlieboy7502

5 ай бұрын

Diamonds are overrated there's so many gems worth more. Hell there's agates and Jasper out there that's worth more than gold

@blacksorrento4719

5 ай бұрын

@@charlieboy7502 couldn’t agree more. Some beautiful gems and stones out there. The fixations on diamonds just keeps the price up. They have perfect cleavage as well, hit them on the right axis and your stunning 2ct diamond solitaire could be in pieces. Pretty much Valueless. As a female and mother of sons, I get so annoyed at my own gender demanding these expensive trumped up pieces of carbon, as a sign of fidelity 😡

@evilsharkey8954

5 ай бұрын

They’d be more valuable than glass because they have properties that give them intrinsic value for scientific and industrial purposes. They just wouldn’t be as overpriced as they are right now. Their price would probably match that of Herkimer diamonds, which are water clear, double terminated quartz crystals found in Herkimer, NY.

Beautiful 😮

Its nice to learn more about my birthstone

I think they should stay there for people to come and see the large one as tourist better for the economy. And just use the little ones to sell. Once they finish you can create anymore it takes centuries.

@evilsharkey8954

5 ай бұрын

It takes a lot more than centuries for amethyst geodes to form! I’m sure Uruguay already has plenty of large amethyst cathedrals in their museums. Selling them as whole pieces beats cutting them up to make faceted gemstones, like what happens to the best crystals around the world.

i take both for my veranda