Hello, first post here! (ever)
[might contain nightmarish english due to language barrier]

Was a concept of breaking minerals into several (corresponding) shards suggested to devs already, I wonder? Not that I want the economy around buying/selling/farming particular shards to be ruined (looking at you, Blue Shard of Despair!), but it would also utilize Moonstone and Valestone to some extend.

Maybe even doing something like a gate deposit box revamp for purpose of shard breaking (I miss those boxes, for Margrel's sake!).