Been into rocks since I was a kid. Then as an adult found a great hobby in collecting them and working with them to bring out there beauty! Now get to understand them at a molecular level.

Thank you for uploading this, I watched it as a kid more than 30 years ago, so to see it again is a true blast from the past. Brings back fond memories!

I must say, this was a "gem" of a find on KZfaq. Thanks for Uploading!

Nova should have watched THIS video before making theirs! Nicely researched, informative, and they supply a broad spectrum of samples. Thank you for the upload!

oh my god.. that backroom smithsonian collection. everysingle little cardbord tray is worth anything from a speedboat to a small mansion..

thanks for sharing this, really well put for the time this was made... almost 30yrs old...

Just fantastic! One of my truest loves as a collector of nsture's masterpieces of art, - minerals!

Absolutely beautiful

A real treat to watch! Thank you!

Even this simple synthetic 1980's analog music in this video rocks. Something went wrong with sounds when everything went digital. The natural and depth of analog synhetic sound has been lost. Digital just never cutted it, all it's good for is preserving recorded sound, but sucks at generating realistic sounds that have life in them like an instrument. Those 1980's analog synthetic sound had it. Just rocks.

I meta guy once selling quartz spheres that he shaped and polished by hand, and you could tell from looking at him he got lost inside his work.

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WOW so many beautiful gems 💎

The "EMERALD" girl in the opening sequence & throughout, is a rare & flawless gem herself !! Truly & absolutely gorgeous...

If the Smithsonian has so many stones that the public will never see, then they have too many!

An interesting experiment for yourself.. an ordinary clear quartz crystal put in the oven on 400 for 5 hours some or all parts of it will turn yellow. At higher temps it can turn purple something fun you can do in your kitchen.

Great documentary! Very informative.

“To be honest I didn’t realize the Hope Diamond was blue.” “The fame of the Hope Diamond is derived from it’s intense blue color.“ 😂

Amazing information about gems, thanks for sharing.

My Grandfather used to cut gems & compete with his gems. He won an Australian gem competition. I have a smoky topaz that is an Eagle Eye cut. I absolutely love it but cannot get the local jewelry stores to set it for me. 😕

i cannot believe I watched this from a to z 😱 ✨

Yeah so rare 98% are stored out of sight. It just goes to show you how they make the market whatever they want it to be.

My favorites are the blue ones at this time...Especially the Amazonite, for Big Amazons like me. :) I believe in their healing energies. The other fav is the Lapis Lazuli...very beautiful blue. Aquamarine, turmaline, turquise, chrysocolla...Wonderful. I love their radiance. I haven't got any, but only to see their photos also can help, as I feel. And on the indexphoto this green stone was also amazing. Aventurine, jade, malachit...Green Beauties. I really like the purple amethyst and pink rose quartz too...I watch many Tarot Reading and the Ladies oftenly use them with rock-crystal together...Rose quartz heals the love hurts and the rock-crystal is perfect for almost every problem, a jolly joker mineral. But the blue colour is very calming, relaxing for me...I plan that I buy for myself an amazonite and lapis lazuli mineral bracelets or necklaces. I don't wear any bijous or jewllerys, but these are energizing stuffs and I'm spiritual, esotheric person. Work with minerals, make these jewllerys or healing with flower essencies, herbs are very sympathic professions for me, maybe one day I will work with them, not as amazon, but a witch. A Good Witch. :) crystalhealingforwomen.com/lapis-lazuli-necklace Hmmm...Beautiful! :)

Cool video... thanks for sharing

Thank you so much for uploading this great video on gems....I super enjoyed it. And for all the conspiracy buffs like myself check out 40:44 into this video I think it is you will see something interesting.

Very beautiful stone

very informative

Beautiful

very good

Back in the day colored diamonds really actually weren't that popular they used to get discarded

Very informative video & the music is the shit!!! Thanks!

Sigh, so many shinies, and none of them, are mine :(

The password is "Beam me up" haha. Great password

Crystals are not “non-living,” They are most certainly alive and conscious.

Anyone else in love with the antarctic meteorite chick at like 30:00?

what type of diamond is mentioned around 4:36. Sounds like she's saying "you-jenny diamond" ?

I like gemstones. Mostly the birthstones.

The blue diamond is the Louis XVI diamond, the original owner. It should be called by that name only.

Cool

"It was lying upside down" ? Huh? How does one determine which side is up or down when considering a rock (meteorite)? She doesn't come off as a scientist, just an inexperienced rockhound.

Oh and I myself believe I found a meteorite while I was metal detecting in CA its pretty big if its not one then it is either a secondary machinery slag or a some kind of volcanic rock with a high amount of base metals. It seems to have the right outer skin fora meteorite and dark in color with what looks to me like iron, petite, copper, gold, maybe silver and a rainbow sheen when a piece is knocked off it ....Wich is hard to do on the not rusty side .....maybe high gold content and very heavy ....does this sound like a meteorite if so where the heck would I take it to be verified in southern ca near San Bernardino ? Anyone?

Could be wrong but i think its phosphorus and sulfur that make pink or red hues in gems

Gemmy.

What about snowflakes, they are crystals too of an ephemeral nature. But grow like minerals.

THA ULTIMATE

Ventura highway... in the sunshine

There's no way that huge diamond at the end is only 12.5 million,I thought that would be hundreds of millions!!!!!???Idk though

The model wearing Marie-Antionette's earrings are not actually wearing them, they are dangling from the model's wig; this looks odd. Lol informative video nonetheless. Lol

Please help. This is driving me crazy. At 9:45 he talks about the gem he dug up at a mine that was 3lbs or over 7,000 carats. I can’t understand what he says that he dug up. What kind of gem or crystal does he say he found. I keep replaying it but I’m just not able to understand what he’s saying. Please go back to 9:45 where he’s telling the story and see if you can understand what he says. Please. And thank you in advance.

Typical. Museums and "Scientists" lock the specimens away where no one will ever see them. It is for this reason I will never support the Smithsonian and others of their ilk. Archaeologists as well. They even admit this in this video. Shame on them. I don't hold a grudge against any private collectors. More power to them.

The smithsonian is bs.. where are all the giant skeletons?...

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Amei 😍😍😍😍

HAHAHA 'PASSWORD'?? 'BEAM ME UP' LMAO

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Nic

I want to by one for my cat

whatta gem