GEM MINING IN SRI LANKA

The pictures in the following slide presentation are © 1990 J. Wolf Kuehn and cannot be retrieved by any means.

Mining areas around Elahara

Open-pit mine in the Elahara area

The gem-bearing level has been reached

Active open-pit mine

The miners are extracting the gem bearing gravel (illam)

Washing off the illam to filter out the gems

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