>>2754195You really don't know anything about the gem and mineral business and it's so bizarre how stupid you are sitting here trying to talk about anything, let me guess, you think diamonds are valuable?
Let's get one thing straight retard, basically all rocks are paperweights and even if you carve it into something cool it's probably still a paperweight. There's nothing inherently valuable about them in a modern society except from a collectors point, to put it into your stupid modern brain in a term you can understand basically real NFT's that earth generated a long time ago and we can make more of some of them but can't make more of all of them-but they won't be the same. There's two types of rock collecting and it basically boils down to specimens and worked stones. Specimens are as the name implies basically a good example of a rock/crystal from a local and often something rare. You could not replace them legitimately unless you get really lucky and they hit a pocket of it somewhere on the planet that's undiscovered (Keep in mind China is deep in Africa right now taking all the shit that's in one of the only places the world hasn't totally catalogued so the chances of hitting a pocket is low). Worked stones are things like carvings, jewelry, etc. This is where 99% of the scam industry comes in because if you don't have something legit you just cut it to make it look cool (cabachons, carvings) and if you don't have a legit crystal formation but you have clarity you can just cut it into a faceted stone and make fancy high class jewelry.
I go to the worlds' largest gem and mineral show every year and have been there for the last ten years working and collecting, what do you do? Take this picture and multiply it by a thousand, and you still won't have the slightest idea of how big the event is. Most people really don't understand how much raw material of 99% of the common shit you would see in a Jeweler Cabinet is, you're one of those people.
