Australian mining company Emerald Resources NL has signed a 15-year investment agreement and industrial mining licence with ...

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 the ...

Rocks retrieved from a mine in Muzo, Colombia, show some of what makes the country the biggest producer of high-value emeralds. (Carlos Saavedra for NPR) MUZO, Colombia — Although he has helped ...

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Job scarcity and the hope of striking it rich are driving women to pursue mining despite the grueling conditions. Colombian emeralds are highly valued globally, with the potential for significant ...

Workers at the Colombian emerald mine run by Canada's Fura Gems' - the first publicly-traded emerald miner operating in the South American nation - have been laboring in unsafe conditions and ...

Mines Minister Carl Andriamparany called the gemstone a collector's dream, adding that officials have found no record of a ...