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October 29, 2008 – 2:14 am

Licenced gem mine owners and mining technicians had the opportunity of listening to and interacting with an eminent personality – Dr Jurgen Weyer , Mining engineer of the Institute of Mining Engineering and Special Civil Engineering , Frelberg, Germany at the ‘NGJA’ Auditorium- Ratnapura on 11th August 2008 . This is part of the service [...]

By Dr Shihaan Larif | Also posted in Gemstone and Jewellery Industry News | Comments (0)

Exposure of the recent Aquamarine Deposit -Akerella ,Opanayake

October 14, 2008 – 9:00 am

By Neelamanee De Silva (Consultant Gemmologist) Reproduced with kind permission from the National Gem and Jewellery Authority A miner at Opanayake has told his friends at a funeral that he had witnessed some people collecting gunny bags full of some stones which appeared to be greenish blue glass (Ground glass) from a recently excavated quartz [...]