[Jewelry making - Article 00012] - Re: [Orchid] Gemstone, Enhancment and Lab-grown Gems

[Richard W. Wise]

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Jenny,

    Very well put and quite right. Most gem mining operations I have
    visited in S. America, Africa and Asia are small scale. They have to
    be because the deposits of rare colored stones are not extensive in
    size and rarely would pay a large concern to mobilize the capital
    and heavy equipment necessary to exploit them. This has been a boon
    to small scale enterprise and these tiny operations feed a lot of
    people. 

    I was in Burma last March. You might find my "Burma Journal" of
    interest: www.rwwise.com . The military junta does have its fingers
    in large scale operations in Burma but, short of shutting down all
    mining, they can't control nor contain the smaller scale operations
    that produce a majority of the gems. 

Richard

www.rwwise.com
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