Very educational. Miles better than other flashy gem films. Love the end to end journey---from the high end jewel store to the mine in the mountains, to the craft shop, back to the store. The film is rich in local culture and local people's lives. Love the authenticity.
I really like to follow the locations of your videos on Google Earth. Please give us lots of clues to identify the areas. So fun to tag along. I found the remote hot springs!! :)) I am a geologist, and I love geography too. Spinel is my new August birthstone. But this part of the world is a place I knew nothing about. Amazing geology! Spent three wonderful hours watching and studying this. Learned a ton. WONDERFUL.
Wait until you can spot kimberlite complexes from Google Earth. At Creedemore Lakes in Colorado you can see how the lakes (decomposing kimberlite pipes) line up along a NW to SE fracture, up to the northeast is the Chicken Park pipe which was tested to be diamondiferrous. Lost Lakes in Colorado near Creedemore Lakes also appear as a succession of decomposing kimberlite pipes. At Kelsey Lake to the north diamonds were mined for some time and there are still a lot of reserves which aren't currently being mined. You can also find similar structures in the area of Winkler crater kimberlite in Kansas (Riley County?). Kimberlite pipes appear as treeless parks in otherwise forested area since most kimberlites don't support tree growth, there are often distinct vegetation anomalies over the pipes, and there is also the presence of rounded cobbles at the surface that were brought up as Xenoliths and polished by the magma in the chaos of the eruption. Searching streams near kimberlite will likely yield many garnets, chrome diopside, and rarely diamonds that were shed from the pipes over years of erosion.
If you get a chance to visit the ultramafic pipes on the Navajo reservation take the opportunity. Some of the most beautiful spinels I've come across were from these pipes.
How come you have not known Tajikistan if Alexander the Great new it? My point is it is shameful not to know the country, which existed way before the Alexander came to conquer it and made 200 weddings of his soldiers to local girls. Although only one marriage had sustained, which was Selevk's one. Hudjand city still has a citadel had been built by the Alexander Great. Now it is a museum.
i especially like the original story at the beginnings of these documentaries. A very wise queen to listen to the sage. Very sad she got killed and the city sacked. I want to call the stone Lal, now.
I rough estimate of what some of these stones would cost to buy would have been nice. I liked seeing the life styles and interaction with the locals. The best part of the presentation. Nice to see how these remote people live.
Dear Patrick!I love this Spinel for its pink color.Why not bring me a Spinel for starters in our business?How much does this cost plz? And inform me of the Sri Lanka trip to the Moonstone mines there!
Do you have a documentary on Taaffeite?? I enjoyed your doc on Tanzanites and how they are heat treated to get the color. I would love to hear about how Taaffeites are heat treated to get their colors!!
Thanks for this look at the MidEast. Bizarre -the fascination for royalty, and pieces of mineral. To me, it is a pity that such things as honesty, loyalty, ethics, justice are given such little value. It kind of seals the fate of this blighted planet.
Dynamite isn’t gentle. Claim Gentle at the beginning then are shown the Dynamiting in the mine. The damage to sizeable stones must be to fracture, producing more smaller pieces for sale. Paid per stone maybe? Or is that being cynical?
It’s just the same when they mine for emeralds in Pakistan they just blow the arse out of them and end up with lots of low grade damaged stones. I get they use old equipment and can’t afford it but you have to spend and invest to get the product out safely like they do in Colombia, hence better stones👍
So there's a tiny chance that wolves might bite off their dogs' ears, so to prevent that they chop off their dogs' ears. Yeah, that totally makes sense.
The real reason is that the wolf can grab hold of an ear and hold the dog until another wolf can rip the dog's throat out. The translation here probably got that messed up.
It's a nice change to see men doing a difficult, dangerous and dirty job being treated by their employers with a little of that respect that any human being is entitled to. And they are directly employed by their government, well their government seems to be the sort of people who can be trusted with employees ? What a contrast to those places in Africa and Lattin America.
The film creator is so ignorant and negligent to translate properly.1 The language Iran, Afghanistan and Tajikistan speak on is FARSI group of languages. The languages are similar but not identical to Iranian one, which is not original for 2 others. 2. Some miner mentioned "Lal" and it is “Ruby” on farsi but not Spinel as it was translated so basically the miner talked about Rubies. And indeed, Tajikistan has rubies, emeralds and spinels as well but not in great funds.3. There are not shamans in Islam as it was presented but the lady has extraordinary abilities of her brain so she can see the future. Only Buddhism fosters shamanism as one of its ways of believes. 4. When will English translators make some efforts to learn a pronunciation of the names in their originality? The letter “H” must be pronounced just the same as the first letter in “house” for the city was named Horog and “Dushanbe” has to be pronounced with a stress on the last syllable and “e” letter. Have not I known the ordinal names I would not be able to understand what places she is talking about in this video.
Believe me the English version is not so bad in comparison to the Russian translation. The latter seems to have been done using Google translator and then read by some degenerate without any correction
what a primitive way to process the ore! there must be a better way, they are probably loosing 70% of their gems. I am sure a similar system to diamond milling could be used to get far better results.
There’s always a better way in all of these series. They use high explosives that crack the gems in other docs he’s done like Afghanistan/Pakistan. It’s always interesting the locals always dig at the historic mines and geological maps or flying IP or mag isn’t used so they are probably sitting on better deposits if they had modern prospecting methods and drilling. The governments would be well served hiring some geotechnical help but they rarely see the tax money and it’s an endless loop where nobody helps the miners extract gems or gold using better methods. Part of it is they can’t buy explosives like we would use in first world mining operations and use old bombs because the countries are terrorism havens. Afghanistan is the most frustrating one to watch because they dynamite the vein and crack so many Emeralds.
I don't understand this man goes all around the world gets in everybody's business checks out everybody's Stones goes in everybody's mines and yet never buys a single Stone I don't understand lol
The beauty and fire .....no natural colour stone comes close spinel .......its perfect and it usually don't need any human efforts to make it good, spinel taken from earth and cut itself is enough to see the beauty, red spinel is rare then red sapphire(present day ruby) , I really dont understand why scientific community made red sapphire as ruby and left the real ruby( red spinel), scientific community say its because of chemical properties, then the present ruby is more close to sapphire with only addition of chromium, red spinel is rare then present day red sapphire , Science must once again reconsider about Ruby, all the ancient discovery indicates that red spinel had been used in crown jewel, so fact is Red spinel is real ruby
Very educational. Miles better than other flashy gem films. Love the end to end journey---from the high end jewel store to the mine in the mountains, to the craft shop, back to the store. The film is rich in local culture and local people's lives. Love the authenticity.
Whoever Patrick Voillot is, Thank you for your informative documentaries. (edit: grammar)
i was going to post the same thing! I think the dude is French, so I say "Merci'"
Magnificent...the stones, the people, the lineage...Thank you for sharing.
That gold and gem encrusted globe is fantastic! I love treasure hoards from various kingdoms. Magical
I LOVE your documentaries!!!
I really enjoyed watching this video.
Thank you ，very impressive video
What a wonderful documentary about rubies/spinells. That opal at the foot of those palm trees. Fascinating!
What I like very much is the tone. Clear and sober just giving the info and relying on the pictures.
Awesome thank you for sharing 👏👏👏👏👍👍👍❤️❤️❤️
" Amazing "
- no words to express -
@Samwisegamgee The Brave You mean German disguised as British?
this of all the videos in the series has the best production quality and soundtrack
Simply love your videos. Great!
Impressive & great info on the Spinels. Thank you...Aha to the narrator over the Brit😎
Love the videos of Mr Voillot
I really like to follow the locations of your videos on Google Earth. Please give us lots of clues to identify the areas. So fun to tag along. I found the remote hot springs!! :)) I am a geologist, and I love geography too. Spinel is my new August birthstone. But this part of the world is a place I knew nothing about. Amazing geology! Spent three wonderful hours watching and studying this. Learned a ton. WONDERFUL.
Wait until you can spot kimberlite complexes from Google Earth. At Creedemore Lakes in Colorado you can see how the lakes (decomposing kimberlite pipes) line up along a NW to SE fracture, up to the northeast is the Chicken Park pipe which was tested to be diamondiferrous. Lost Lakes in Colorado near Creedemore Lakes also appear as a succession of decomposing kimberlite pipes. At Kelsey Lake to the north diamonds were mined for some time and there are still a lot of reserves which aren't currently being mined. You can also find similar structures in the area of Winkler crater kimberlite in Kansas (Riley County?). Kimberlite pipes appear as treeless parks in otherwise forested area since most kimberlites don't support tree growth, there are often distinct vegetation anomalies over the pipes, and there is also the presence of rounded cobbles at the surface that were brought up as Xenoliths and polished by the magma in the chaos of the eruption. Searching streams near kimberlite will likely yield many garnets, chrome diopside, and rarely diamonds that were shed from the pipes over years of erosion.
If you get a chance to visit the ultramafic pipes on the Navajo reservation take the opportunity. Some of the most beautiful spinels I've come across were from these pipes.
How come you have not known Tajikistan if Alexander the Great new it? My point is it is shameful not to know the country, which existed way before the Alexander came to conquer it and made 200 weddings of his soldiers to local girls. Although only one marriage had sustained, which was Selevk's one. Hudjand city still has a citadel had been built by the Alexander Great. Now it is a museum.
very be fun video always a pleasure to watch these great documentaries
Sashay a wonderful story. Thank you for sharing.
The quest for beauty is remarkable
Very good information. Educative and entertaining too.
42:25 the music is Berlioz ‘L’Enfance Du Christ’ (childhood of christ) i think. Strange choice for this film but so so beautiful.
Got one and it is spectacular!
Where have these videos been? Keep em coming.
I follow every your vidio, you are the best of on adventure stone, sometimes it looks better than the movie.
In every episode he stays true to his 19th century colonial explorer outfit :D I like it !
interesting documentaries...personally, I'm more interested in the adventure side of getting to these remote places than in the stones themselves
Русский
How does this only have 100 views?
17,00 now!
Now 22k😉
28k
Former USSR had so many diverse republics and cultures wow really nice :)
I love how the narrator speaks over the British guy.
I'm gonna need 3rd party subtitles to understand you, dude.
@@drew3906 huh?
@@Flutterbold What I mean is I need someone to repeat your comment exactly the way it was written for me to understand. Just kidding of course.
Excellent
Wonderful!
खुप छान माहिती आहे रत्न कमी किमतीत होती.
Beautiful
How does Mr Voillot get access to these places? it is amazing to take a tour.
i especially like the original story at the beginnings of these documentaries. A very wise queen to listen to the sage. Very sad she got killed and the city sacked. I want to call the stone Lal, now.
Laaal
I would like to know what sort of the drop shape pearls in the crown are? They seem perfect and uniform in shape and color.
I adore this English rose color
I rough estimate of what some of these stones would cost to buy would have been nice. I liked seeing the life styles and interaction with the locals. The best part of the presentation. Nice to see how these remote people live.
Amazingbl docunenter!
Thanks for your sharing documentary, very important and educated
Salute from Indonesia's Fire Opal lover and Crypto Tron/Forsage Tron Community
fascinating! I am only aware of the common black spinel.
LOVE TAJIKISTAN
When was this filmed? this is amazing bring us more :).
Dear Patrick!I love this Spinel for its pink color.Why not bring me a Spinel for starters in our business?How much does this cost plz? And inform me of the Sri Lanka trip to the Moonstone mines there!
20:50 they call spinel lal in their language ..lol. in Vedic astrology spinel or Ruby is said to match the power of the sun.
Love spinels. I got a light pink and a dark purple one
Do you have a documentary on Taaffeite?? I enjoyed your doc on Tanzanites and how they are heat treated to get the color. I would love to hear about how Taaffeites are heat treated to get their colors!!
Not for now but stay tuned, I will make some new documentaries very soon!
@@voillotpatrick9347 Can't wait!! Your documentaries are wonderful!!
@@voillotpatrick9347 what about kashmir
so beautiful.
So beautiful
@18:12. whats that name?
Clinohumite
The gem cutting is beautiful but I am looking for a customer who buys dinosaur feathers in blue Amber
Why would u "translate English into English"?The stone cutting was fascinating.
Thanks for this look at the MidEast. Bizarre -the fascination for royalty, and pieces of mineral. To me, it is a pity that such things as honesty, loyalty, ethics, justice are given such little value. It kind of seals the fate of this blighted planet.
Dynamite isn’t gentle. Claim Gentle at the beginning then are shown the Dynamiting in the mine. The damage to sizeable stones must be to fracture, producing more smaller pieces for sale. Paid per stone maybe? Or is that being cynical?
It’s just the same when they mine for emeralds in Pakistan they just blow the arse out of them and end up with lots of low grade damaged stones. I get they use old equipment and can’t afford it but you have to spend and invest to get the product out safely like they do in Colombia, hence better stones👍
So there's a tiny chance that wolves might bite off their dogs' ears, so to prevent that they chop off their dogs' ears. Yeah, that totally makes sense.
The real reason is that the wolf can grab hold of an ear and hold the dog until another wolf can rip the dog's throat out. The translation here probably got that messed up.
I love the crown 👑
@14:30...who determines the best?
Also translating the English lol
I laughed at that too
So, where do those seed pearls come from? I know that they are farmed in China, but these appear to be completely natural.
@23:52 is dude taking a leak?
That guy actually had a picture of Lenin behind him. Must be his hero. 😅😅😅
Intro music sounds like Lord of the Rings.
It's a nice change to see men doing a difficult, dangerous and dirty job being treated by their employers with a little of that respect that any human being is entitled to. And they are directly employed by their government, well their government seems to be the sort of people who can be trusted with employees ? What a contrast to those places in Africa and Lattin America.
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The film creator is so ignorant and negligent to translate properly.1 The language Iran, Afghanistan and Tajikistan speak on is FARSI group of languages. The languages are similar but not identical to Iranian one, which is not original for 2 others. 2. Some miner mentioned "Lal" and it is “Ruby” on farsi but not Spinel as it was translated so basically the miner talked about Rubies. And indeed, Tajikistan has rubies, emeralds and spinels as well but not in great funds.3. There are not shamans in Islam as it was presented but the lady has extraordinary abilities of her brain so she can see the future. Only Buddhism fosters shamanism as one of its ways of believes. 4. When will English translators make some efforts to learn a pronunciation of the names in their originality? The letter “H” must be pronounced just the same as the first letter in “house” for the city was named Horog and “Dushanbe” has to be pronounced with a stress on the last syllable and “e” letter. Have not I known the ordinal names I would not be able to understand what places she is talking about in this video.
Believe me the English version is not so bad in comparison to the Russian translation. The latter seems to have been done using Google translator and then read by some degenerate without any correction
Saya ada batu Rubi 🙏🙏🙏
Several people in the documentary speak Russian.
Happy to see them with a good meal
you mean to tell me that i need to have a fortune teller point me to the treasure? haha pulls a 50k stone out almost effortlessly
I am wondering same lol. Rumor has it, that Woman counseled steve jobs LOL..
❤️🧡💛🙋😃💐
what a primitive way to process the ore! there must be a better way, they are probably loosing 70% of their gems. I am sure a similar system to diamond milling could be used to get far better results.
There’s always a better way in all of these series. They use high explosives that crack the gems in other docs he’s done like Afghanistan/Pakistan.
It’s always interesting the locals always dig at the historic mines and geological maps or flying IP or mag isn’t used so they are probably sitting on better deposits if they had modern prospecting methods and drilling.
The governments would be well served hiring some geotechnical help but they rarely see the tax money and it’s an endless loop where nobody helps the miners extract gems or gold using better methods.
Part of it is they can’t buy explosives like we would use in first world mining operations and use old bombs because the countries are terrorism havens. Afghanistan is the most frustrating one to watch because they dynamite the vein and crack so many Emeralds.
My engagement ring is a natural red spinel
Price
Please don’t make a documentary without knowing about country double check your facts please!
Imagine if One gem where both of them So spinels gem was also his Brother (bte male spinels) gem to
I don't understand this man goes all around the world gets in everybody's business checks out everybody's Stones goes in everybody's mines and yet never buys a single Stone I don't understand lol
How much a carret
i have gems
The beauty and fire .....no natural colour stone comes close spinel .......its perfect and it usually don't need any human efforts to make it good, spinel taken from earth and cut itself is enough to see the beauty, red spinel is rare then red sapphire(present day ruby) , I really dont understand why scientific community made red sapphire as ruby and left the real ruby( red spinel), scientific community say its because of chemical properties, then the present ruby is more close to sapphire with only addition of chromium, red spinel is rare then present day red sapphire , Science must once again reconsider about Ruby, all the ancient discovery indicates that red spinel had been used in crown jewel, so fact is Red spinel is real ruby
Is dat the..................
.........SPINEL GEM?!
The Spinel Gem is not the real gem I believe,
Müthiş
Good Morning Salim...Sorry NYPD
❤
But LENIN?!?!?!
Why not?
Seems like fake gems devalue the entire gem enterprise.
Manufique ❤❤❤😂🎉
WHY ARE YOU MAKING A FILM FOR ENGLISH SPEAKING PEOPLE THEN HAVING A TRANSLATOR TRANSLATE SOMEONE SPEAKING ENGLISH?
NOT AT HER TRANSLATING THE ENGLISH GUY 😂😂😂
How many are lab made ??
Would be better if they didn't have that foolish banner always scrolling under the video......
I have a unique ring
25分後再伝予您了。
Vladimir Lenin. Why any person of faith would honor him seems strange to me. Otherwise I enjoyed .
👍
Here
Waw
Lenin on the top shelf! Uhm...
The material marble concurringly beam because brown conspicuously applaud anenst a irritating musician. well-made, nauseating plant
What I like very much is the tone. Clear and sober just giving the info and relying on the pictures.
Right. No BS opinions or agenda-pushing.