This village in Serbia is full with semiprecious stones: Hills from green, roads from red. Every stone is worth in gold (PHOTO) (VIDEO)
One engineer took home a backpack of stones every week from the mine, and he said that it is worth as much as his salary
In the village Ramaca, not far from Kragujevac, houses and fences are made out of stone, balconies and pots for flowers. Great part of it is made of semiprecious stones! The road is red. Hills are like from the other planet, all with green stones. Roads in the village are paved with semiprecious stones. However, the village is poor, and the stones from the mine in the hill Glavica are not mined anymore.
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There have been some surface excavations few decades ago and they stopped. No further research have been conducted about the treasure under ground. Locals of Rameca say that no one knows who is the owner of the mine now.
Old man Vladimir Djokic (78) from Ramaca, dug semiprecious stone in the mine in the seventies. It all lasted about seven months.
- Around 10 of us worked there in two shifts. Where did they take the stone, i don't know. When they closed the mine, they told us that it is maybe better this way, not to destroy our roads, move our village, if they found something. I haven't thought about it later on. I am used to our hills, colorful from all the rocks, red road. Although, some people from Belgrade came after that, some Greek came twice, i took them all over the woods. Then they grew silent. It's been 10 years since - said the old man.
He said that there have been some hints that the colorful stone, which locals use to rest their eyes and to make some fence, has brought some money to the people.
- There has been one engineer, while the mine was still working. He told us like this - one backpack, one paycheck. He told us that he took home a backpack of stones every week from the mine, and he said that it is worth as much as his salary. I have thought about it, i have to say, but a farmer can't make it all - to feet the sheep and pigs, to work on the field. Who can make it to go around the woods to collect stones after all that. And i would be ashamed to drag stones out of the forest, even though many took bags of rocks out of it - testifies Djokic.
The colorful rocks in the most lively colors are all over the Ramaca. Long time ago, when heavy machinery drove the roads from the mine, they carved the soil and the red stone appeared. Its name is Carnelian. None of these roads have been paved, but it looks like they are, because the machines stripped the fragile rocks, and crumbled them, making the road look like it was strewn with stones. Semiprecious stones.
Geologist Branislav Pasaljic said that he took samples from the Glavica hill and he got some information from the friends, professors from the University in Bulgaria. Pasaljic said that there is a lot of Opal in this location.
- There are three precious stones in nature - diamond, emerald and Sapphire or Ruby, which are basically the same mineral, only different in color. Everything else is semiprecious stones. Those are Opals which can be found in Ramaca. On some stones with Opal, there could be thin traces of Haelit stone, which is too think to be processed, but i found some few centimeters thick. There were some semiprecious stone collectors, compact samples which would not leave much waste if they were processed. They are sold for up to five euros per kilo, while abroad they cost up to 20 euros. Other stones which can be found here in abundance can find some use, not in jewelry, but in industrial production. Addition to industrial concrete can be made of it, which helps the concrete become solid in a minute, and it is water replant. It is extremely valuable when making tunnels - explains Pasajlic.
For now, the Glavica hill is used by the mineral and crystal lovers, those who make jewelry out of the semiprecious stones. However, one jeweler doesn't need more than 20 kilos of this stone, which is not such a high demand.
When asked, why was the deposit of Opal and other semiprecious stones in Ramaca abandoned, some say that it might be due to unresolved property relations, the other because of the expensive ground research, a third- because of the costly processing of semiprecious stone that is not worth enough.
Be as it may, the locals of the small village Ramaca are the only ones in Serbia which are walking and driving tractors on the roads paved with semiprecious stones.
This is the road with semiprecious stones that is passing through the village:
(Telegraf.co.uk / Marija Raca)
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