Thread: Why are honing stones so expensive? Has our planet ran out of its resources?

Originally Posted by rodb

I'm guessing that with the invention of man-made stones (Norton etc) that nobody is looking due to the expense of mining. I would guess there are all kinds of undiscovered hone sources out there.

Thanks that makes sense.

As per wikipedia there are 203 recognised countries in the world. If these natural stones are only found in Belgium and Japan, then what about the rest of 201 nations? Just for example Belgium shares its boundary with France, Luxembourg, and Germany. If the part of the earth is same then there is very real possibllities that the coticules also exist on the other part of the border?
Same goes for Japan and its surrounding islands, so does for africa, asia, australia, and north america as well as arctic and antartic geographies.