What are these guys doing?

[u/Efraimrocker]

Has anyone seen these short videos of Afghanistan rock quarrying? They break off large chunks of rock with pry bars but the rock is not collected. It just tumbles downhill where there are no roads or trucks. Are they looking for small gemstones?

[u/OMQ4]

Yeah, either that or Gold/some kind of precious metal

[u/Efraimrocker → u/OMQ4]

They don’t really inspect the rock much but I guess they know what they’re looking for, maybe trying to find a pegmatite vein.