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The rough sellers just walk from table to table. There are 500 tables spread around. They see who offers highest price, then come back to that table to sell. The buyers at table will tell you what they are looking for.

Bangkok gem show or Tucson will have a variety of good rough. Smaller markets other than Ratnapura will be easier. Ask around for Alexandrite in markets and they will show you sellers. There are hundreds of sellers.

Only if you can facet your own stones or have a mine.

Thank you for the information. The traders are getting best stones at the mines before the leftovers hit the markets. So true.

Sri Lanka has beautiful stones but hard to find good sources.

Sri Lanka has beautiful sapphires,

I will contact you next time.

I am going to every gem mine in North America. I will rank them when completed. Thanks for Watching. Mike

I need someone to invite me to go gold mining there. Seen some strong gold mining in the river there.

No one can buy online, too many fakes. Try a jewelry store.

Sri Lanka is a suicide mission. They are all scamming each other and may not even know it. 99% of stones can not be faceted. Go to Chanthaburi Thailand. Watch my videos there .

Ask certificates always otherwise you can be cheated . Both markets are good . Both markets are bad 😊

@ No one in market will have certificates. It's a gamblers paradise.

@ Thank you.I will remember your advice.

@@hellocyras264 Post any info you have, we are all looking to learn more.

How about the 99% of the bad stones ? That they want more than $50. Worthless that can not be faceted. No shame there? 99% of the locals are buying garbage. Yes or no?

@MinesAndMountains No it's completely wrong we also buying gemstones from locals they have good quality stones if you willing to buy super quality stones plz give them a pair price i would like to buy that purple sapphire around 30,000

Yes, you are correct, the market is a waste of time. It is hard to find good stones when most are faceted or exported.

@ you can find some good stones at the market. But you have to walk around. Don’t take tables and sit. They will bring you low quality stones only for you. If you could walk around then you will get some good piece

Thank you for the information. The whole world is interested how to buy there.

I just finished Tucson, got great rough gems to facet. Email me through Minesandmountains.com with video names for music.

Not safe, all gem buyers are strapped. If your karate is like Johnny Lawrence, then maybe. Makes Muzo, Colombia look like a church picnic. All miners could play in the Olympics, ect…

@@MinesAndMountains i was wondering about madagascar. sounds fun :))))

@ Yes, I am going, let me do a recon before I take anyone there. I might only be able to save myself.

Thank you for watching so many videos.

That’s what the Europeans do in Chanthaburi, Thailand

Thank You, We are showing Gemstone Faceting on my other channel. www.youtube.com/@GemstoneFaceting

You decide. ruclips.net/video/gv5FukHS13E/видео.htmlsi=nwDghnzbNg-YZaIA

Thank you

@@Sapphirebyceylon All want to trade a worthless rock for a new TukTuk or Lamborghini.

@ Ya, mate, They were always like that, I hardly go to those markets, Buying straight from the miners or from our own mines.

@@Sapphirebyceylon Yes, but it takes years to find the good sources unless your family was already in this business. I am trying.

@@MinesAndMountains Not Necessarily your family have to be, But It will take some time. It took almost 7-8 years for me. But I can give you some Tips for where to look at. The hardest thing is to find today’s world is the trust nothing else. Cause I have burnt a lot and I’m thinking now it is the risk that I have taken to get there. Happy hunting mate.

@@Sapphirebyceylon Yes, it cost money for an education in any type of business. Mistakes cost money. One mistake can ruin your business. Facts of life.

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Good point, but this is literally a channel that are supposed to be about minerals and stones. Not about "exotic markets around the world". Western TV and youtube really has destroyed people's perception about what non-western videos are suppose to show. Though I don't know if this channel is good or not

Western Media is 100% brain washing, every news channel, series, movie, ect.. All pushing the same agenda. RUclips has some freedom, my chain is short, but I can show some things. How many of you would walk into this market and take on these guys? ruclips.net/video/bnpUxYQG5IM/видео.html

@@MinesAndMountains what you say is true but engagement drives all unfortunately, as a complete novice to it all I found it interesting but I’d of loved to see footage of the markets themselves too, purely to see the culture. Maybe I’m just a noob idk, no hate thou

And no offence lads with titles of videos and thumbnails like this your clearly trying to cash in on the very thing I’m talking about

Sri Lanka rathnapura dristic

Should Be NIvithigala Market

@@pasindukarunarathna6136 keep guessing guys, I will verify winner.

Thank you kindly, garnets are affordable and seriously underrated.

​@@MinesAndMountains yes we can see they have good clarity. How much do they cost per gram/ct in thailand?

I have 6 more coming out starting Friday. Ratnapura is not the best one there are 7 markets all spread out. They won’t let foreigners rent cars, driving is too bad. I have a driver, super cheap, let me know if you need information. Best gem market Heraniyawaka Junction - Shopping mall P7JG+JX4 Heraniyawaka Idangoda Sri Lanka

Noble Torch from Mogok Myanmar. I Agree with you. 99% scammers. They are all selling each other garbage. Go to the gem show at Tucson, Denver or Bangkok. I Plan on spending my summer at Sapphire mines in Montana. 100% Real.

They are getting a lot of flower gold. Weather is perfect. Paradise

Roadside Rough.

Not quite Muzo, Colombia, but more relaxing.

Dredging in warm water, must be nice.

Thank you, I love going in Mines

Real treasure in North Carolina.

Thank you so much, Franklin, NC is a real gem.

Too High! Too High!

Search google and RUclips to find the treasure.

The remaining Padparadscha as of 1-16-25 have some inclusions. I am going to Tucson gem show at end of the month. Wait and see what I bring back, it will be the best rough stones they have. Its the biggest gem show in the World. Sellers from 100 countries.

I just want to do this full time around the world. Hopefully a company or investor will hire me. Also people can support me by buying rough and faceted stones on www.minesandmountians.com

@@MinesAndMountains I wrote to you under another one of your videos that I would like to purchase the 20-carat Padparadscha from your store, but I wanted some additional information... Reply when you can, thank you. Otherwise, I might write to the email listed on your website. Keep up the good work!

A little Corundum in your ice is the least of your concerns, it's good for you. How about that GMO food making everyone obese? Or those experimental shots they forced on you...? I didn't take either which makes me the last Sigma male.

It was a low quality chunk of corundum. But it didn't glow like a ruby. You ready to see a red spinel Blacklight hunt in Sri Lanka? Did your "rockhounding" club show you about that yet?

Nobody wants to see you and "Peaches" go on another rockhounding date. I think they want to see some real Sigma content in Colombia?

Actually its Corundum, the source of rubies and sapphires. Only ruby light up, not Sapphire. Google it.

I literally have purple sapphires from the Mason mine that I dug up last year. They glow bright red under uv.

​@@clintoncollum838 Rubies glow under a blacklight because of the presence of chromium in their chemical makeup, which causes them to fluoresce when exposed to ultraviolet light, while sapphires typically lack this chromium element and therefore do not exhibit the same glow under UV light; instead, the color-producing elements in sapphires (like iron and titanium) do not react significantly to UV radiation in the same way. Could be mixed. I have seen some half and half, bi color.

@MinesAndMountains Well, not sure of the composition of the typical purple sapphires from the Mason mine, but what i am sure of is that they florescent a bright red under uv. I've been going to this mine since I was a child. Not sure if they do it anymore, but they used to have uv hunts for the sapphires as a special event.

@@clintoncollum838 A employee there says they still do blacklight tours, just call them if interested. Also Rose Creek Mine does black light tours.

Not heat treated.

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