User blog comment:ChishioKunrin/My view on Dust (so far)/@comment-98.109.162.219-20140309214013

I don't think that the origin of Dust is as simple as just being mined from a Schnee quarry. Oil comes from underground oil wells, but as we go farther back we know it comes from dead dinosaurs and other animals. Dust's closest real world equivalents are Oils and other Organic compounds (any compound that has the carbon element excluding CO2 and CO) because they both are flammable, combustible, and used to power our machinery. Our real world dust comes from dead skin cells of animals and other organic organisms around us, so some people have said that Dust comes from dead humans. I on the other hand, still think Dust comes from piles of dead Grimm and somehow the dust gets piled in the quarries. I don't think that crystalized Dust is it's natural form, and maybe it just gets turned into crystals under high pressure like diamonds.