Imagine spending a leisurely day hunting for treasures in North Carolina for $3 a day and pulling this 65-carat emerald out of the ground!! Among corn rows, a farm known for small pebbly emeralds allow people to come and rummage around for fun. This is the largest ever found in North America. Wow, I guess they weren’t expecting this to be buried in there. This gem is so large it is being compared to historical treasures like those found among the crown jewels of Russian empress Catherine the Great. This stone was cut down from it’s original size to produce its final 65-carat weigh. I guess they will shut down this farm and get serious with mining emeralds.
Via Huffington Post.
What an amazing emerald. I think I would start spending a lot of time looking for more right around where that one was found if it was my farm!