"ESMERALDERO - The Colombian emerald"

we are just turned by the beauty of the other landscape and hopefully we'll be able to find a nice little green emerald in which the wonderful green landscape [Music] so here we know intentional process and cheating in pain of outside and Watts obesity the weights are 0 here associated with cats I think was inside visa Blackshear so the managers found a three is more piece of quad and also a tiny small emerald that he has equal cheese BAM which is by means at the sparkle because the small emerald are bright are sparking [Music] who Geraldton also very narrow tunnels but nice nice nice our first night in Colombia it was cooler so we are now in a Jackalope a laddoo which is the main trading centre in a cost quest forever mainly active and Saturdays at the steel drop the gold here and we are checking some sample negotiated by price that the things I'm trying to negotiate with about $200 plus some coffee just a second coffee Plus origin because you don't drink coffee trying to find a way to get these nice sample from from first place but yeah it will [Music] so we are here in the productive area about 700 meter underground in a coast question a man called Tim easily even if we are about 700 meter underground actually here it's not very hot because you can hear they're blowing some air the productive area let's go to see a bit some miners working they're bringing jackhammer and will witness a bit house into twice right they wrote [Music] okay well maybe not stay too long but we'll try to get you samples this is a preservative able to get so you have some of them still in matrix but you have also here too small stone a fine quality [Music] they're waiting for us at the Manor so we are now in music we are in NTC mine and we are going now to go underground the turtles are about 900 meter deep and we are going to set the pollution area [Music] usually when their inspirations are all the time to people here you have first a geologist and then you have a security person so when they see any production the fine quality material is going in this bag and then the lower quality material is going in that bag actually the emeral are located usually in the castle vein you can see a bit of green there on the on the vein of the castle [Music] [Music] so these are examples from little excess mind here in Colombia and it will be good sample to join the data collection barrel [Music] here we are down the Moodle International mind and we see this a group of workers that are working the tailing of the mind so with Kwok heroes are local people that are go to work they don't have a very informal system but we see the system you have here where you know the big company have a mining license of the world the deposit and all the tailings are allowed for working for the local populations everybody can get to share of what is produced interesting the term quirky Rowe is coming from guaca guaca meaning the indigenous treasure so at the beginning are people going around searching for treasure and these people were you know called aqua 0 the term moved from people who were searching for indigenous treasure to people who were also searching emerald and now everything is mixed [Music] Oh [Music] [Music]

Channel: Field Gemology by Vincent Pardieu

Views: 66,352

Keywords: emerald, gemology, gemmology, crystal, beryl, gemmologie, colombia, muzo, chivor, coscuez, gachala, field expedition, DANAT, emerald mining, gem mining, gemstone mining, emeraude, esmeralda, gemologia, esmeraldero, vp consulting, nomads media

Id: DJeQbrBDuDg

Length: 6min 45sec (405 seconds)

Published: Mon Mar 25 2019