{"id":76,"date":"2015-11-18T02:09:17","date_gmt":"2015-11-18T02:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/myjewelrysource.com\/gemstone-jewelry\/?p=76"},"modified":"2018-04-05T16:12:00","modified_gmt":"2018-04-05T23:12:00","slug":"gemstone-mining-emeralds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myjewelrysource.com\/gemstone-jewelry\/gemstone-mining\/gemstone-mining-emeralds.html","title":{"rendered":"Gemstone Mining \u2013 Emeralds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gemstone mining is typically a very primitive operation. That,  combined with political instability, government restrictions, difficult  terrain, sporadic deposits and even crime, makes one truly appreciate  what goes into bringing the beautiful gems we see to the marketplace.<\/p>\n<p>Many gemstones are mined by individual miners working with  old-fashioned picks, shovels and wash pans, reminiscent of the days of  the California gold rush. The work is very strenuous. And since  gemstones are generally found in veins that are spread across vast  areas, the mining process is very difficult and slow. Sometimes a vein  is mined out in just a few months and sometimes it\u2019s years.<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.myjewelrysource.com\/emerald-rings.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"Emerald Crystal\" src=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20140103024059im_\/https:\/\/www.myjewelrysource.com\/images-blog\/emerald-crystal.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Emerald Crystal&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Emerald mining actually began in ancient Egypt beginning in about  3500 B.C. Today, Colombia is where most exceptional emeralds are mined,  but that is a very dangerous place. Miners often work along side armed  bodyguards, and even gem wholesalers traveling to Bogota have to be very  careful. Other emerald sources include Brazil, Zambia, Zimbabwe,  Pakistan, Afghanistan and Madagascar. The Panjshir Valley in Afghanistan  also produces some of the finest emeralds in the world. But the  production is uneven because of modern wars and safety concerns. Foreign  dealers must have the protection of local authorities. The mountainous  regions mined in Afghanistan consist of narrow tunnels in very hard  rock. When Afghanistan was at war with the Soviet Union, emerald miners  tried to make something good of an otherwise bad situation. They would  actually place burned out vehicles in areas they wanted to mine. The  vehicles <strong>attracted the Soviet bombs which then broke up the hard rock<\/strong> and made the mining a bit easier.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned to this blog for much more on gemstone mining, emeralds and everything that goes in to creating a beautiful <a title=\"Emerald Rings\" href=\"https:\/\/www.myjewelrysource.com\/emerald-rings.htm\" target=\"_blank\">emerald ring<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gemstone mining is typically a very primitive operation. That, combined with political instability, government restrictions, difficult terrain, sporadic deposits and even crime, makes one truly appreciate what goes into bringing the beautiful gems we see to the marketplace. Many gemstones are mined by individual miners working with old-fashioned picks, shovels and wash pans, reminiscent of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,7,8],"tags":[37,41],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/myjewelrysource.com\/gemstone-jewelry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76"}],"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=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/myjewelrysource.com\/gemstone-jewelry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":648,"href":"https:\/\/myjewelrysource.com\/gemstone-jewelry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions\/648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/myjewelrysource.com\/gemstone-jewelry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myjewelrysource.com\/gemstone-jewelry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myjewelrysource.com\/gemstone-jewelry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}