KAGEM in ZAMBIA, The World’s Largest Emerald Mine.

Dear all, I’m happy to invite you to discover a new field video on “Field Gemology by Vincent Pardieu“. During a field expedition in June 2018 we visited the KAGEM emerald mine in the Kafubu area in Zambia in order to collect reference samples for the “Bahrain Institute for Pearls & Gemstones (DANAT)“. Emeralds mining started in the Kafubu area in Zambia during the 1960’s but it is only after the 1980’s that Zambia became a major producer of emeralds. In 2008 Gemfields took control of the KAGEM mine and
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