Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 192, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 August 1916 — India’s Jewels. [ARTICLE]

India’s Jewels.

Though India exports 55,500,000 worth of jewels annually, she is still supreme in the world as- the jewel storehouse for all nations. Diamonds, rubies, sapphires, tourmaline, garnet and many kinds of rare chalcedony are mined throughout her many provinces. Rubles are principally mined in Upper Burma. One ruby of 75 carats, taken out a few years ago, was valued at SIOO,OOO, sapphires are mined in Kashmir, but the mines, after having been worked for over 900 years, are now said to be giving out, though the yellow, white, blue, and green varieties are extensively found in the ruby-bearing gravels in Burma. Garnets form a valuable trade in Krishnagar, while large quantities of turquoise come from Sikkim and Tibet, those from the latter country being harder and of darker and more liquid luster, and having greater value.