#gemmining

“You have never seen such a beautiful topaz, have you?” a stubby man asks me with a shrewd smile. He is the first to speak up among the eager gem traders hanging around the mines. “Nice stone.” I’m turning

There are only three places in the world whose land is richer in gems than Sri Lanka’s. The first is Columbia, which yields 90 percent of the world’s emerald supply, then the African diamond mines, followed