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Mining and Sustainability - The Stone of Great Faith

Over centuries, mining in Sri Lanka has maintained small to medium scale operations, done mostly by hand by hundreds of thousands of villagers. Typically family-oriented in nature, gem mining businesses are in a closely-knit community of miners, polishers, cutters, designers and sellers. Everyone is a stakeholder in the business. In addition to wages, miners are entitled to a percentage of profit of every gemstone sale from their mine.