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To those who ask him what his most precious jewels are, Gian Mario Zorza answers without hesitation:
his grandchildren. And it’s impossible to blame them, looking at their eyes and their thick hair. Gian
Mario is a Technical Expert with twenty years of experience who performs Consultancy, Estimates and
Technical Evaluations, passionate about precious stones and jewels, he attended technical-preparatory
courses in this field, which led him to acquire knowledge regarding the activity of extraction of materials
first in the mine, these aspects that precede the comfortable and luxurious buying and selling on the
counters of our jewelers, but which are often ignored by most people who have a very refractory
perception of the subject. Very often the objects presented in the windows are the result of an intense and
tiring work carried out by the so-called “small-scale artisanal miners” of South America and Africa, who,
with the sweat of their brow and often at risk of their same life due to the conditions of the places of this
particular work, they earn a modest decent salary, selling the fruit of their work at a low price to the
merchants.
THE PASSION BORN BY CASE AND GROWS AT FULL SPEED.
Yes, because the career of Zorza Gian Mario was born really by chance and is closely linked to the passion
for excavations and related machinery, since he was a child (we are talking about the 70s “), when construction
companies carried out the excavations. of the foundations to build new villas in the areas adjacent to his
childhood home, he finished the working hours of the workers, entered those large holes digging in search of
who knows what treasure or archaeological find, always taking severe scoldings from the parents because of
the dangerousness of the game, in fact his first tetanus injection was due to a nail that got into his foot, during
a “digging operation carried out by hand, without adopting the necessary safety protections”. However, it all
started seriously when, about three years ago, two of her dear friends, together with the husband of one of
them, had to dig in their garden to move a tree, for this purpose they hired an excavator who carried out the
work, and Gian Mario, on the occasion of a Sunday barbecue in the pool with his friends, saw in the excavation
some stones and earth of a golden color; after having them analyzed, he discovered that it was not, alas, the rare
precious metal, but the incident made the old dormant passion re-emerge in him; so, moved by curiosity, he
approached the sector with spirit Technical, typical of his current professional activity starting to develop and
acquire knowledge, attending courses concerning classification, methods extraction and evaluation of precious
metals and stones. As he acquired knowledge on the subject, he became aware of the background behind the
spectacular luxury and wealth of this timeless sector, also linked to the market value that has grown exponentially
in recent years.
GOLD MINERS, SMALL-SCALE ARTISANS.
What is artisanal gold and why is it exploding? Reuter Staff wrote on January 15, 2020, a rapid increase in the
price of gold since the year 2000 has prompted millions of people to search for gold in deposits in Africa, South
America and elsewhere, mining it using basic technology.
Photos from websites of manufacturers of small-scale artisanal machinery for mining
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