The following article studies the different dynamics and practices that shape the guaquería work in the Itoco stream, called "La Mina" by its inhabitants. From an ethnographic work, between 2019 and 2022, in the municipalities of Quípama and Muzo-Colombia, I propose a narrative that encompasses the different ways of giving meaning to guaquería, through the reconstruction of the practices and perceptions that the guaquería social body has around its trade. I present a mercantile view of emerald production where mining and capitalist production of precious stones becomes the center of their trade, a position that differs from the position of Taussig (1980), where capitalism is conceived as the devil in a mining space with spiritual traditions or environmental protection. This research reveals that for the Guaquero social body of Itoco, the emerald has an economic value thanks to the intervention of a space and a type of mining and resource that gives the possibility of obtaining immediate wealth.