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* There's a chance to find a gem in every vein of ore in {{Skyrim}}. And they are all already cut too, despite having to smelt ore into ingots

* In ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', all of the gems Rarity finds are cut in various shapes. [[EatDirtCheap As are the ones Spike eats]]. Even the turquoise he eats in Appleloosa, while not cut into faceted shapes, appears as polished nuggets, which is typical of gem turquoise in real life.

* In ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', all of the gems Rarity finds are cut in various shapes. [[EatDirtCheap As are the ones Spike eats]]. Even the turquoise he eats in Appleloosa, while not cut into faceted shapes, appears as polished nuggets, which is typical of gem turquoise IRL.

--> -- '''SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarves'''

* In ''SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarves'', the dwarves' mine has a huge variety of gems that are all already perfectly cut. Doc's evaluations aren't even really about their carats, but whether they "sound" good via tapping them.

This is probably an OmnipresentTrope. Subtrope to ArtisticLicenseGeology. Related to the RuleOfPerception and could lead to RealityIsUnrealistic.

* In ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', all of the gems Rarity finds are cut in various shapes. [[EatDirtCheap As are the ones Spike eats]]. Even the turquoise he eats in Appleloosa, while not cut into faceted shapes, is presented as polished nuggets, which is typical of gem turquoise IRL.

* In ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', all of the gems Rarity finds are cut in various shapes. [[EatDirtCheap As are the ones Spike eats]].
* Even the turquoise he eats in Appleloosa, while not cut into faceted shapes, is presented as polished nuggets, which is typical of gem turquoise IRL.

* The dwarves in ''DwarfFortress'' mine out rough gems that need to be cut before they're usable. Future versions are even planned to allowe different kinds of cuts.

In real life, gem appraising, cutting, polishing, faceting, etc. is a multibillion dollar industry. Not so in fiction. [[TreasureIsBiggerInFiction Not only are they much bigger]], they're just naturally flawlessly cut and perfectly shiny, even while they're still in the ground, or where there's no logical way they could have been cut. Characters will find these gems studding the walls of a mine, laying close to the surface, or laying casually in open fields. Any place where they're abundant is usually a CityOfGold.

* In ''ThePhantomTollbooth'' the Numbers Mine is of the ordinary sort. Carts of rough stone are being pushed around, and men are explicitly sitting at buffing wheels on site. The Mathemagician has to reach into their carts to get polished stones. The weird thing is; the residents of Digitopolis consider diamonds, emeralds, etc. to be worthless, yet they ''still'' polish and cut them before tossing them out.

* In an episode of ''TheAdventuresOfSuperman'', Superman made a new diamond to replace a diamond in a native statue in the jungles of the Amazon.

* The Rupees in ''TheLegendOfZelda'' games.

* The dwarves in ''DwarfFortress'' mine out rough gems that need to be cut before they're usable. Future versions are even planned to allowed different kinds of cuts.

* ''{{Erfworld}}'' - justified since it takes place in a video game world and explicitly doesn't follow real life physics.

* Averted in ''{{Airman}}''. A good portion of the book takes place at a prison where the prisoners mine diamonds. At one point, a guard frustrated at being unable to stop a supposed boogeyman starts chucking uncut diamonds into the sea, thinking they're just rocks. A smarter guard notices them for what they are, and realizes [[spoiler:the "boogeyman" is actually part of a heist.]]

* Could be played straight (depending on how you look at it) in ''{{Minecraft}}'', where diamonds are more of a lump than a gemstone, but seem to be symmetrical and have visible facets.
** However, it is slightly averted in that precious metals and gems aren't just present sticking out of the walls of mines, but instead can be seen in small bits spread throughout a regular stone block (as in real life, where often tons of stone have to be refined into a single gram of gold. They then have to be smelted.)
*** While some materials, such as iron and gold, have to mined as unrefined blocks and then smelted into useable forms, diamonds pop out of the wall as the aforementioned symmetrical, visibly facetted lumps.

* The Rupees in TheLegendOfZelda games.

* ''TarzanAndJane''

* ''{{Runescape}}'' - mined gems are uncut. In order to use them in jewelery, the Crafting skill is required to cut them first. It also gets into the realistic zone in that the gems don't just lie on the ground but have to be mined - and in that certain gems are found with certain ores.

* In ''Game/MegaMan 9'', Jewel Man's stage has enormous pre-cut gems inside the ground.

* In ''MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', all of the gems Rarity finds are cut in various shapes. [[EatDirtCheap As are the ones Spike eats]].

->"In a mine where a million diamonds shine!"

* In an episode of ''TheAdventuresOfSuperman'', Superman made a new diamond to replace a diamond in a native statue in the jungles of the Amazon.

* DiabloII's [[SocketedEquipment socketed items]] can be fitted with gems of many grades, the lowest being Chipped and the highest being Perfect. The game also has the refining process present in the Horadric Cube.
* WorldOfWarcraft has an entire Jewelcrafting profession available, in which the player takes raw gemstones and grinds and polishes them into something usable in SocketedEquipment.
** Jewelcrafting also gives the prospecting skill that allows a player to sacrifice raw metal ore for a chance to find raw gems. [[RandomNumberGod No guarantees on results, however.]]
* Averted in ''[[NancyDrew Secret of Shadow Ranch]]'', in which getting an agate polished is actually necessary to obtain a clue.

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