Ruby mining city in Madagascar jungle.

June 2005: Imagine 15.000 people rushing in a remote area of Madagascar jungle for a ruby rush: You will have a muddy city ruled by men during the day and by rats by night!
Note: as I was not able to sleep with rats running on me all the night, I passed my 2 nights there seated outside the bedroom around a fire... Safe? Not really: This is I think the way I got malaria as during my 4 months traveling it was the only time I remember to have been attacked by mosquitoes and 3 weeks after in Tanga, Tanzania after I was useless for 5 days.
That's life...
For more info:
http://www.fieldgemology.org/gemology%20madagascar%202005.php

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• ruby
• mining
• madagascar
• gemology
• gem
• gemstone

[pidner]

The rubies are not very great,mostly fisher filled and not clean.

[paulhallart]

Je me trouve cett ouvre d'etre extra, les gars! Bien fait...

[GIA13615093]

omg

[ToddNak]

yea, what he didn't tell you (not that he said shit in the first place) was that the entire shanty town is in the middle of nowhere and wasn't there a couple years ago. Every person in that place is there for the sole purpose of digging in that mud to scrape together a few stones. So this footage is actually showing how poor the country people are. Although the country is fantastic and the people (having mixed african, arab, european, asian in the breedin' for so long) are gorgeous.

[barrowboy1z]

so  a shanty town then, with no actual footage of mining.