{"id":192,"date":"2015-11-18T16:57:50","date_gmt":"2015-11-18T16:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/myjewelrysource.com\/gemstone-jewelry\/?p=192"},"modified":"2018-04-05T16:06:44","modified_gmt":"2018-04-05T23:06:44","slug":"fun-fact-rubellite-find","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myjewelrysource.com\/gemstone-jewelry\/fun-fact\/fun-fact-rubellite-find.html","title":{"rendered":"Fun Fact: Rubellite Find during Final Week of a Six Month Dig"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 270px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.myjewelrysource.com\/rubellite\/gr9141-rubellite-ring.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"1.41 ctw Rubellite Tourmaline and Diamond Ring in 14k white gold\" src=\"https:\/\/www.myjewelrysource.com\/images\/rubellite-rings\/gr9141d-rubellite-tourmaline-ring.jpg\" alt=\"1.41 ctw Rubellite Tourmaline and Diamond Ring in 14k white gold\" width=\"260\" height=\"156\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rubellite Tourmaline from MyJewelrySource.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p>One of the world\u2019s renowned mining areas is the state of Minas Gerais  in Brazil. The location produces some of the finest tourmalines,  aquamarine, morganite, chrysoberyl, and emerald, just to name a few.  Mining is a very risky and difficult task as it is always a gamble as to  whether or not exceptional gem deposits will be found. One amazing  story involves the Jonas mine located in Minas Gerais. In 1978, the mine  was thought to contain large deposits of rubellite <a title=\"Pink Tourmaline Rings\" href=\"https:\/\/www.myjewelrysource.com\/pink_tourmaline_ring.htm\" target=\"_blank\">tourmaline<\/a>, but after 6 months of digging with absolutely no good results, <strong>the miners only had financing for one final week of digging<\/strong>.  One of the miners had a premonition of a huge gem pocket which  encouraged the miners not to give up and to keep digging.  As luck would  have it, they found a truly magnificent pocket that once excavated was 8  by 10 feet in size. It had almost 450 pounds of spectacular rubellite  tourmaline crystals. <strong>One crystal was large enough to yield a million dollars worth of cut gems<\/strong>.  A smaller second pocket was also found but it was not as spectacular as  the first. Although mining at this location was essentially exhausted  after a couple weeks of excavating, the miners hard work sure proved to  be worth it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>It is interesting<\/strong> to think about all the things what  could have happened to cause the difference between a 100% loss of  their investment and their big payoff.  The pocket containing the  crystals was on 8 by 10 feet.  Imagine how easy that would have been to  miss.  Imagine how many gem containing pockets have been missed by other  miners in the past and how many must be out there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the world\u2019s renowned mining areas is the state of Minas Gerais in Brazil. The location produces some of the finest tourmalines, aquamarine, morganite, chrysoberyl, and emerald, just to name a few. Mining is a very risky and difficult task as it is always a gamble as to whether or not exceptional gem deposits [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,17],"tags":[39,41,60,67],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/myjewelrysource.com\/gemstone-jewelry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/myjewelrysource.com\/gemstone-jewelry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/myjewelrysource.com\/gemstone-jewelry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myjewelrysource.com\/gemstone-jewelry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myjewelrysource.com\/gemstone-jewelry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/myjewelrysource.com\/gemstone-jewelry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":638,"href":"https:\/\/myjewelrysource.com\/gemstone-jewelry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions\/638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/myjewelrysource.com\/gemstone-jewelry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myjewelrysource.com\/gemstone-jewelry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myjewelrysource.com\/gemstone-jewelry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}