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		World's largest cut emerald, shaped like watermelon, to fetch $2 million (english.pravda.ru)		22
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tillerman35

2012-01-25 09:56:41 AM

Leo? Mike? Raphe? Donny?

ampoliros

2012-01-25 10:06:54 AM

That video gives no sense of scale. How about giving dimensions or putting it next to something?

Wise_Guy

2012-01-25 10:07:04 AM

I admittedly don't know anything about the business, but they couldn't cut and polish that thing any better?

abhorrent1

2012-01-25 10:10:30 AM

Worst videography evar!

2wolves

2012-01-25 10:12:14 AM

Anyone else have Malwarebytes pop on the Pravda link?

StrangeQ

2012-01-25 11:00:57 AM

ampoliros: That video gives no sense of scale. How about giving dimensions or putting it next to something?

I've seen other videos of the stone, it is actually about the size of a watermelon

s2s2s2

2012-01-25 11:32:06 AM

Turtle. It is shaped like a turtle.

Jayone

2012-01-25 11:35:45 AM

ampoliros: That video gives no sense of scale. How about giving dimensions or putting it next to something?

KarmicDisaster

2012-01-25 12:50:04 PM

ampoliros: That video gives no sense of scale. How about giving dimensions or putting it next to something?

Yeah, that is what I was thinking. So stupid, is it three inches or an inch or 3 feet?

phant0m51

2012-01-25 01:15:37 PM

s2s2s2: Turtle. It is shaped like a turtle.

deadsanta

2012-01-25 01:46:09 PM

Ugliest looking "cut" I've ever seen, and the gem quality itself is closer to malachite than emerald, thing looks like a big green boulder, cut by an idiot. I would buy it for around $500-$2000.

MoistenedBint

2012-01-25 02:30:17 PM

It really is about the size of a football...far too large to hide in one's pants or anything.

There are reports here, though, that it is really just beryll, the root mineral that causes (?) emeralds, dyed to look more emeraldy. It was apparently appraised by a rookie gemologist, and the seller is pitching a reality TV show about gemologists.

Methinks the fraud is ripe with this one...given the hype thus far.

///lives in Kelowna

Argyle82

2012-01-25 03:52:16 PM

As bent as the Soviet sickle, and as hard as the hammer that crosses it.

billybobtoo

2012-01-25 04:21:07 PM

Yes, that's a bad faceting job. It almost looks like it was pulled from a mold of some sort. Bad polish too.

mason4300

2012-01-25 05:18:14 PM

Why did they cut it? It looks like shiat and it's not like you can wear it anyway.

boobsrgood

2012-01-25 06:11:52 PM

ampoliros: That video gives no sense of scale. How about giving dimensions or putting it next to something?

Farking SCALE, how does it work? (miracle?)

Outtaphase

2012-01-25 06:13:05 PM

Sense of scale:

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Tillmaster

2012-01-25 07:00:35 PM

Actually it doesn't look cut. It looks more like idiot with a grinding wheel.

CowboyNinjaD

2012-01-25 09:46:07 PM

whatshisname

2012-01-25 09:57:30 PM

Tillmaster: Actually it doesn't look cut. It looks more like idiot with a grinding wheel.

Certainly hasn't cleaved off in nice flat faces, and doesn't show much crystal symmetry. Looks like someone attacked some green marble with a belt sander and a Dremmel.

White Rhino

2012-01-26 12:08:04 AM

It ain't no QG that's for sure!

http://images.wikia.com/en.futurama/images/1/1d/QuantumGemerald.png

crab66

2012-01-26 06:43:26 AM

I HOPE YOU LIKE 10 MINUTES OF EXTREME CLOSE-UPS BRO

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