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The Second World Emerald Symposium (2WES) took place in Bogotà, Colombia last October – three years after the successful First World Emerald Symposium – with an overwhelmingly positive response from participants.
The relatively recent Green Power Mine has yet to strike an emerald deposit but geologists predict that a find is imminent (Photo: Cynthia Unninayar)
'Guaqueros' search the Rio Minero for any emeralds that may have washed down from the mountains (Photo: Cynthia Unninayar)
A miner with ore carts in one of the tunnels at the Cunas Mine.
One of the largest emerald mining companies in Colombia, MTC Muzo has set up a cutting factory in Bogotá (Photos: Ioannis Alexandris)
Rosey Perkins of Fura Gems (Photo: Cynthia Unninayar)
Miners use jackhammers to cut through the black shale at the Cunas mine (Photo: Ioannis Alexandris)
Vice Minister Carolina Rojas Hayes from Colombia’s Ministry of Mines and Energy (Photo: 2WES)
Emeralds in matrix, offered for sale in the small town of Muzo
(Photo: Ioannis Alexandris)
By Cynthia Unninayar
Ethical sourcing, transparency and corporate social responsibility in the emerald industry were the dominant and recurrent themes of the Second World Emerald Symposium (2WES) in Bogotà, Colombia last October. The symposium also tackled issues concerning industrial and artisanal mining, geology, gemmology, origin, treatments, new technologies, and jewellery, among others.
Featuring 75 presentations, the three-day 2WES attracted more than 200 people from overseas and some 300 from Colombia. Organised by Fedesmeraldas, Colombia’s National Emerald Federation, the symposium brought together the world’s key players in the emerald industry, including representatives of the Colombian government and emerald trade associations (Aprecol, Acodes, Asocoesmeraldas),...
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