| Originally Jewelry is a kind of ornament, what is | | | | of “Star of India” (Star of India) came |
| affordable for wearing what is better. | | | | from here. The early 80s, there has also |
| Unfortunately, the equivalent of these things too | | | | produced over a 362 karats of the world’s |
| much wealth in the face of the people are always | | | | third largest sapphire, “Sri Lanka’s |
| ready to make trouble, so can there be in Sierra | | | | Star”, as a national treasure, concealed in the |
| Leone, “Blood Diamond.” Fortunately, the | | | | Colombo National Museum. |
| longest in the body after the Asian civil war in Sri | | | | Since it is a godsend, good fortune naturally get |
| Lanka, although 90% of the territory of this | | | | people a hard time. Although the Ratnapura |
| country are produced in the distribution of the | | | | everywhere on the streets, wearing the head or |
| parent rock gem (a high degree of crystallization | | | | hands Kam Po of the condenser tube of the |
| of the Precambrian metamorphic rocks), but the | | | | people, but the real gem is a rare boutique. |
| LTTE’s lair — the northern Jaffna peninsula, | | | | According to locals, said some people dug a |
| but fortunately, there is no gem mine. | | | | three-nothing, some people dug the first month of |
| Precious stones, such as cabbage | | | | 10,000 U.S. dollars worth of goods. It is precisely |
| | | | because the harvest dredging totally unexpected |
| Thus, just as calm as Dasan and beaches, Sri | | | | gems, each mine has its own shrine, the official |
| Lanka’s gem also turbulent and bloody deeds. | | | | excavation of the mine owners should go to their |
| Because the stones are widely distributed, and | | | | temple incense before the prayer, each worker |
| everywhere one can try his luck. Located 64 | | | | must work underground before the hands |
| kilometers southeast of the capital, Colombo, high | | | | together, silently praying, and even the screen |
| mountains of the Ratnapura (in Sinhalese | | | | day of ore have to select “auspicious.” |
| Ratnapura, the “Rat” is a “gem” | | | | On the treasure hunt, where there is one I do not |
| means, “Couple” is the “city” | | | | know the authenticity of the scripts: One day, a |
| together is ” Gem City “), we ate the car | | | | jeweler in the country saw a woman bathing in |
| surprised – many competing out into your | | | | the river with stones Cabei, 1:00 stare. Then |
| hand in front of the hands of spread of the | | | | regardless of verbal abuse, put forward the other |
| parcel, the full of colorful, after a rough gem. | | | | side is willing to spend lots of money to buy a |
| These stones usually only one or two carats, but | | | | piece of stone used Cabei. Several rounds of |
| to know of these barefoot hawkers, is seeking | | | | bargaining, until the 135 dollars Fang Cai deal. |
| tens of dollars of business. | | | | Sapphire stone processing out of the value of |
| Sri Lanka’s gem mining dating back more | | | | 16,000 U.S. dollars. |
| than 2,500 years of history. The parent rock | | | | In fact, a more realistic story is far more amazing |
| containing precious stones are water washed | | | | scripts. In 1997, a 14-year-old girl with his father |
| away the precious stones mixed with sand, gravel | | | | to the mines to help, accidentally dug a 850 |
| and clay, the spread in the riverbed, wetland, | | | | karats of sapphires, was identified market 200 |
| farmland, or foot of the mountain, usually 1.5 m | | | | million U.S. dollars. Expression of patriotism in this |
| depth to 18 meters. Mining treasures be divided | | | | country was genuine – girls will gem donated |
| into three kinds of ways, mostly in the mountains, | | | | to the National Museum, this was also summoned |
| rock mining, mining of precious stones out of | | | | by the president. |
| larger particles, but the more difficult; dug wells | | | | In fact Sri Lanka’s gem resources are unlikely |
| and river mining much more common, but after a | | | | to always maintain the strong momentum in |
| long river transportation, gem size than the small. | | | | recent years the government has carried out a |
| In the Ratnapura divided into two ancient river | | | | number of rivers and phase control to prohibit the |
| bed of the Carew gave birth to one third of the | | | | exploitation of large-scale machinery. From the |
| gems of this country, but also making it | | | | land owners, investors, machinery suppliers to the |
| Asia’s largest gem mine. Exclusive Museum of | | | | miners to the gem mining on them is just a |
| Natural History in New York is currently the | | | | product, they expect nothing but the final split into |
| world’s largest sapphire, weighing 563 karats | | | | partnership, in which the landlord can get 20%. |