New Delhi [India], April 4: RudraTree, a global leader in the gemstone industry since 1923, has announced the inauguration of its new Blue Sapphire and Yellow Sapphire mines in Sri Lanka. With a ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Almost every gemstone in the world can be found in deep underground pits in Sri Lanka, a country renowned for its colored sapphires. But mining for the gems is ...

Sri Lankan authorities on Sunday put on show what they said was the world's largest natural corundum blue sapphire. Copper $ 4.807 / lb -0.91% Brent Crude Oil $ 76.6 / bbl 0.63% ...

News reports that workers in Sri Lanka dug up a cluster of sapphires worth up to $100 million were a welcome distraction for a ... He also said that the rock had been hauled out of a gem mine, ...

Origin of Sri Lanka sapphire cluster too good to be true. In the Buddhist-majority country, ... The rock, though real, had not been dug up in a well, but in a gem mine, an official said.

Sapphire mining in Sri Lanka is still done by hand Credit: Jenny Zarins Amid the heat and dust and sweat, Silvestri in her wedge heels and Bulgari jewellery is an anomaly.