6 Most Valuable Gemstones Ever Found

These gemstones are the most valuable ever found. Surprisingly it's not just expensive diamonds that made the list! Ever heard of jadeite for instance...? Subscribe to World5List http://goo.gl/cpJSA6 Find us on... -- http://www.boredbadger.com -- http://www.facebook.com/world5list Have you ever dug up your garden only to uncover a ten thousand dollar diamond? Us either. While that’s unlikely to happen to the average Joe, it’s definitely happened. Join us as we unearth some of the most valuable gemstones that were found in the most peculiar ways! Rare Gem or Paperweight? Imagine you were attending a garage sale or a comic-con convention and you saw a stack of money being used as a paperweight. A bit ridiculous, right? Well that’s kind of what happened to mineral dealer Morgan Sonsthagen. Sonsthagen was attending the Tucson Gem and Mineral Show when he came across a table using a beautiful pinkish-orange rock as a paperweight. Diamond in the Rough During a dig in Russia’s Udachnaya diamond mine, miners discovered a rock with two unusual characteristics - a red and green hue and, oh, 30,000 miniature diamonds. Since the diamonds were so small, they couldn’t be made into jewelry, but the team donated it to science to see if someone could unearth how this rare stone came to be. Finders Keepers America hosts a few mining sites where amateur miners and tourists can search for precious gems. That’s just what Bobbie Oskarson did one day. Originating from Longmont, Colorado, this tourist took a trip to Arkansas, home of the Crater of Diamonds State Park. Turning Rocks into Riches One family of diggers turned their fun hobby into mind-blowing headlines. W. Renn Adams’s family took up the hobby of digging on the family farm to look for interesting, and hopefully valuable, gemstones. The hobby even turned into a business when the family charged the public to dig by hand in the 70s and 80s. After retiring, Adams continued the tradition, but like the generations before, he never found anything with real value. Historic Eruption While this next gemstone is not a huge money-maker due to its rarity, its unique discovery lead to the creation of a large niche in the gemstone market. Volcanoes are infamous for the damage they cause, but a volcanic eruption is what lead to the discovery of one of the most beautiful gemstones ever found. Mount St. Helens, located in Skamania County, Washington, was said to be a dormant volcano where tourists and locals like gather to gawk at its beauty. Big Beauty While the last five treasures we discussed were impressive, we’ve saved the best for last. Just this past October, the mother of all finds was unearthed in Burma. A team of government-employed Burmese miners were working in a mine in Kachin State and simply doing what miners do, searching for precious, valuable gemstones to bring to the man. That’s when they stumbled across a monster of a stone, which turned out to be a nearly 200-ton, 14-foot-high-by-19-foot-long beautiful jade boulder.

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1. I found the best gem in my backyard and it was an old TM-46 Anti-Tank Mine
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3. I found a dilldo in my backyard
4. diamond
5. So many comments about finding poop and such. If you want to find something that is disgusting and still considered a type of stone then find ambergris. over all it is slime that encases a irritant inside a whale's stomach. Think of how a pearl is made. The greasy substance gets expelled and then later hardens. at first it has a stinky bile smell but when hardens and ages becomes a sweet smell. Thus is used in perfume. It is not in US made perfumes because whales are endangered but that in a sense is pointless as you can't really hunt whales for the stuff as it has to be expelled by the whale and has to harden over time for it to be of any use. Still by weight it is extremely valuable. Outside of that being rather nasty and valuable you are not going to find it in your backyard unless you live on a beach front.
   
   However meteorites are valuable and can be found anywhere and get bought by weight. Hundreds of dollars by the pound. Look it up, meteorite hunters and the price per weight of meteorites.
6. Mine
7. I found cilantro in my backyard...
8. I found a rollypolly
9. fuck you
10. I fell into a river in Joplin, Missouri when I was a kid going after a green rock in the water. I later let my younger brother take to school for show & tell, something I wouldn't do, but my mother insisted I let him. I never got it back. I have always wonder what it was. Everyone thought it was glass, but I later learned that high heat, like volcanoes, and nuclear explosions can create such rocks. I'm sure it was valuable and that is why I never got it back.
11. Burma is a country in Asia and there is a lot of gemstone like the one at 0:16 yeah that one my dad is a man that check how much that gem worth.
12. I need to get a fossil analysed.
13. I found plutonium in my backyard once.
14. I found a ruby in a mine but it wasn't thay much
15. Bruh
16. I have an emerald at my entrance
17. what is hiding in my backyard just dirt and air
18. ..How and why do you "clean up" a volcano?..."workers began heating the rock and ash"....lol...that's the first thing I think of after a volcano...hey! let's go heat up the rock and ash..
19. I found a 7karat diamond in my back yard
20. WAIT
    I THOUGHT OF A WAY OF BEATING THOSE WHO SAY I FOUND NOTHING IN MU BACKYARD!!
    I HAVE NO GARDEN NOR A BACKYARD!!
    HAH
    BEAT THAT!!
    lul