Uncut Gems

There are places in the rock where the stone was not content to be stone. The miners call them pockets, and they stop their talk when they come upon one. For a gem as it leaves the wall is a dull thing, a pebble with a little colour in it, and a careless pick leaves nothing of it at all. Citrine lies near the grass and is thought little of. But the diamond lies under all the others, and the blue diamond is found so seldom that many who have mined all their lives have only the word of others that it is blue.

Details

- Gems are pried from a mineral pocket with a mining pick and Pitter
  (Mining) at level 10. Below that level the gem is destroyed.
- The levels where each is commonest, and the Gemcutting level that cuts it:
    citrine     1-3    10       topaz         22-25  e30
    carnelian   4-7    20       ruby          26-29  e150
    garnet      8-10   30       sapphire      30-32  e250
    zircon      11-14  40       emerald       33-36  e350
    obsidian    15-18  50       opal          37-39  e450
    jade        19-21  e10      diamond       37-40  e550
                                blue diamond  37-40  e850
- Above its own levels a gem is rarer, and an odd one may sit in any wall.
  Granite met above level 30 is the rim of a pocket.
- A cut gem is set in jewellery.