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Uploaded by on Jun 7, 2007

This video depicts the actual extraction of natural pearls from live Rainbow Lipped Oysters that were grown in a Pearl Farm in Bacochibampo Bay, Guaymas, Sonora, México. Year: 2006.

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  • the pearls of guayma are not natural they are cultivated which a whole different process.

  • @zarizzy21 We have a pearl farm here...means we grow oysters to produce cultured pearls, BUT some of the oysters (fewer than 30 every year) may produce NATURAL PEARLS. The ones you see in this video ARE natural pearls. I have another video about the HARVEST OF CULTURED PEARLS... if you watch it you will notice the pearls are very much different in size (cultured pearls are bigger) and the place where they are found: the mantle for naturals, the gonad for cultured.

  • Its funny that oysters make pearls because of one grain of sand

  • @kibby669 Never a grain of sand...just google "Cortez Pearl Blog grain of sand" and you'll get detailed information. The grain of sand explanation is given by those that believe in fary tales such as: "Babies come from Paris, by Storks", "The check is in the mail", "Read my Lips: No more Taxes" and so forth...

  • @kibby669 i thought that pearls were made out of small thinga magingis thAT WERE IMPLANTEd IN THEM. WELl AT LEAST THose are a cultivated pearls. oppose to a natural pearl i don't know how there made.

  • @zarizzy21 The "thinga magingis" is more of a "watchamacallit"...we call it a NUCLEUS. It is a perfectly spherical mother-of-pearl bead, and it is used for Cultured Pearls. For NATURAL PEARLS you don't use a single thing: they just happen!!!

    It is very likely that they happen because a parasite attacked the pearl oyster.

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  • Somehow, I find pearls much more beautiful than diamonds or gold. Well, I guess it depends on what you think. =D

  • eww that looks like a blue waffle....

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  • its a masterpiece of the nature!

  • how is it natural if you cut the oyster?

  • me want to snatch them oysters to get them pearls :(

  • i could literally go "oystering" (term correct?) just for the thrill treasure hunting.  i prob can't afford the damn license though.

  • @jawbreaker480 god no!!! no god please no....not the flashbacks!!!!

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