From one pocket he brought out a handful of very small cut gems.

The museum is to move to a nearby building that is still under construction and there are plans to add displays of cut gems.

Below were lights sparkling, as if a handful of cut gems had been spilled out.

"I did put the cut gems in my boots," Piemur said with a grimace for one of the stones had rubbed his ankle raw.

For instance, fisheries prepare captured fish, carpenters' workshops make wood furniture, and jewelers' workshops turn mined out roughs into valuable cut gems.

Between his thumb and forefinger he held a small cut gem--a ruby, I thought--which he examined against the light.

It's rare to find such stunning gems still in their natural form, but here each cut gem is accompanied by an example of how it would have looked when it came out of the ground.

Before Remo could react to the movement, he felt the cut gems slit three deep grooves in his back.

It was a strange thing, to mark the presence of so many D'Angelines among foreigners, honed features shining like cut gems among unpolished stone.

A man's platinum stud set with more than 10 carats of diamonds, including a 1-carat radiant cut gem in the center of each cuff link, is $24,000.