Image Uncut gems from Madagascar on Mr. Soni’s workbench. His services can cost as much as $250,000 to cut rarities like a 16.5-carat sapphire from Madagascar.Credit...Max Whittaker for The New ...
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Gemstone mining map
Madagascar produces about half of the world ... The oldest, and probably best known, gemstone mined there however, is lapis lazuli, a rich blue stone that has been mined in the Hindu Kush ...