Fortune hunters flock to Madagascar's sapphire mines

AFP English
AFP English
  • 7 years ago
Sapphires were first discovered in Madagascar in the late 1990s, and today thousands of people look for the precious stones in informal and dangerous mines. The hunt is often fruitless and keeps the miners in poverty.

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