Thread: What gems could be found in an underground pond or river?
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Old 12-17-2010, 10:40 AM   #3
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Originally Posted by DixieGal View Post
Usually, gems are tightly embedded in a black matrix. You might be able to have veins of gold glimmer in the lakebed, but the gemstones should sparkle from the cave wall. Or use fluorescent minerals, which glow under backlight in vivid neon colors.

Gemstones are like glass and can cut you deeply. Probably would not something you want to walk on or lean against.

When I hunt gems in water, they don't gleam or anything. They are mud clumps. You dig out the shovels full of mud, then start washing it away, breaking up the mud clumps, until it dissolves and washes away, hopefully leaving behind something shiny.
Blah. I was afraid of that. I think I'll go with quartz. My son and I went to the Denver Museum a few weeks ago and looked at information about quartz caves. I think that'll work and I'll just have it on one wall.
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