The World's Largest Emerald Shouldn't Exist

Subscribe to the SciShow Rocks Box to receive your own Emerald here! https://complexly.info/rocksbox We know gemstones are beautiful and highly desirable. But there's one specific gem that's been fought over for decades, and it even has a restraining order filed on it. This is the story of the Bahia emerald, its unlikely legal battle, and the strange geology that lets it exist in the first place. Hosted by: Reid Reimers (he/him) Correction: 0:51 Bahia is generally pronounced without the h and we get that wrong several times throughout the video. Sorry about that! ---------- Support us for $8/m