Two couples find 400+ carats of emeralds in North Carolina mine. March 27, 2012— -- Jamie Hill thought he found a new way to make money by opening up his aging emerald mine to amateurs at $25 ...

The world’s largest producer of green stones has unearthed a 5,655-carat emerald crystal at its mines in Zambia. The stone, which weighs more than 1.1 kg (almost 2.5 lbs), was found at the ...

The emeralds found in the Kagem mine were formed more than 450 million years ago when a rare combination of in-situ minerals and surging magma from deep within the Earth’s crust encountered one ...

"I don't have a mining background," he told NPR during ... bosses giving them just a tiny sliver of the profits when they found emeralds. Sponsor Message "It was like the lottery.

A large emerald weighing 1.1kg (2.5lbs) and worth an estimated £2m has been found in a mine in Zambia. The 5,655-carat gem was named "Inkalamu", by mining company Gemfields, which found it at ...

The emeralds found in Kagem mine were formed more than 450 million years ago. Some 500 million years ago molten magma intruded into 1.8 billion-year-old talc magnetite schist. The heat and ...

Elon Musk's biographer set the record straight on whether Errol Musk ever owned an emerald mine. Walter Isaacson spoke to Musk's father Errol, who told him he exchanged a plane for emeralds.

A new biography of Elon Musk, the controversial SA-born billionaire, has confirmed the existence of emerald mines in Zambia tied to his father ... Errol reportedly imported the raw emeralds and had ...

New research by archaeologists from the Autonomous University of Barcelona and the University of Warsaw found that Roman Empire emerald mines may have fallen into the hands of nomads as early as ...

MUZO, Colombia — Although he has helped transform Colombia's emerald industry, long a source of violence and environmental damage, former U.S. diplomat Charles Burgess admits that he got into ...