The precious stone tanzanite, rarer than diamonds

HTML clipboarddiamonds1Tanzanite, a precious stone that was formed d 5 million years, but was not discovered in 1967, a thousand times rarer than diamond, jewelry is used worldwide, and is coveted by jewelers sobretodote New York and London up points can not imagine.It’s located just at the foot of Mount Kilimanjaro on the edge of the hills Merenari in northern Tanzania, a country worthy of Hemiwey. Tanzanite production brings to Tanzania 20 million dollars a year, which is a pittance next to the jewelry studio in New York amounting to 800 million.

For this reason the government decided to close the only mine in the world, and banned the export to India, a country where they are processed most of the jewels of Africa, that really felt that you were working Tanzanian miners for anyone. Many of the stones found are yellow-brown color that can be removed with a simple thermal treatment. Tanzanite One South African society has over 700 employees. At 450 meters underground miners work 8 hours a day to make tanzanite stones, but the sales director of the company, Marie ChemiNet, explains that the international success of the particular color of the stone give publicity to the country.

Also according to the angle that you look at have colors near the rainbow, blue, brown, purple, green. Naturally there are adventurers who deal with the natives of the Maasai tribe to achieve cheaper stones. The situation is not very pink underground where it all over, there were miners who die from floods. For all the equipment they have but only a flashlight, no helmet or boots, or waterproof. They were fed but not paid, the stone is more expensive in the world, miners cheaper land. The only solution is to introduce these people even a stone in your pocket or where they fit and remove and sell it to traffickers in secret.

A short term solution is to find another mine elsewhere in the world, namely Africa. According to geologists the chances of finding other sources of Tanzanite in Africa are 1 in 1 million. The moral, if unemployment is not going to Tanzania.

November 25, 2009  Tags: , , , , , ,  Posted in: Educations

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