I used to work at a diamond mine in the Arctic. Along with diamonds in the kimberlite pipes are a lot of other gems like amethysts and garnet and emeralds, etc. In such abundance that they just threw out everything but the diamonds and ground it all up as gravel to build roads or whatever else the mine needed. So the roads were literally paved with gems!
Edit: Not to say that EVERY diamond mine throws out the gems, but the one I worked at was small and only setup to process diamonds. The added cost to process gemstones just wasn't feasible.
Edit edit: not emeralds apparently, but definitely garnets and other gemstones- gems created in volcanic pipes
Rayleigh96 on July 25th, 2018 at 12:52 UTC »
it looks beautiful! how it is purple in the middle and transparent on the outside
5meterhammer on July 25th, 2018 at 13:39 UTC »
You got amethyst in my gravel You got gravel in my amethyst
bobaimee on July 25th, 2018 at 16:25 UTC »
I used to work at a diamond mine in the Arctic. Along with diamonds in the kimberlite pipes are a lot of other gems like amethysts and garnet and emeralds, etc. In such abundance that they just threw out everything but the diamonds and ground it all up as gravel to build roads or whatever else the mine needed. So the roads were literally paved with gems!
Edit: Not to say that EVERY diamond mine throws out the gems, but the one I worked at was small and only setup to process diamonds. The added cost to process gemstones just wasn't feasible.
Edit edit: not emeralds apparently, but definitely garnets and other gemstones- gems created in volcanic pipes