{"id":11476,"date":"2012-06-14T11:16:21","date_gmt":"2012-06-14T09:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/06\/feature-emeralds-seek-the-de-beers-treatment\/"},"modified":"2012-06-14T11:16:21","modified_gmt":"2012-06-14T09:16:21","slug":"feature-emeralds-seek-the-de-beers-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/feature-emeralds-seek-the-de-beers-treatment\/","title":{"rendered":"FEATURE-Emeralds seek the &#8216;De Beers&#8217; treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Emeralds may be next exotic market investment<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Green stone an investment play in Asia, Middle East<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Gemfields hopes to do what De Beers did for diamonds<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Manuela Badawy<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>NEW YORK, June 13 (Reuters) &#8211; A year ago, Heraldo<br \/>\nCasas found a 32-carat emerald on the outskirts of a mine near<br \/>\nBogota that he sold for $170,000 to a vendor.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>It was enough money for the poor miner to buy his family a<br \/>\nhouse in the Colombian capital. And Casas says his lucky find<br \/>\ngot him hooked on working for virtually nothing, scouring the<br \/>\ncountryside for more of the green, precious stones.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In Colombia, the world&#8217;s largest producer of raw emeralds,<br \/>\nthe story told by Casas is no anomaly. Many of the<br \/>\ncountry&#8217;s poor work without a salary for several local emerald<br \/>\nmining concerns, hoping to pocket a few stones along the way and<br \/>\nmake their own small fortunes.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s no easy way to earn a living. But for these poor<br \/>\nColombians, there&#8217;s hope that better days may be on the horizon.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Some investment experts see growing demand for the stones in<br \/>\nplaces such as Asia and the Middle East, where for religious and<br \/>\nastrological reasons emeralds often have more appeal than<br \/>\ndiamonds or other precious gems.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Emeralds may be next exotic market investment * Green stone an investment play in Asia, Middle East * Gemfields hopes to do what De Beers did for diamonds By Manuela Badawy NEW YORK, June 13 (Reuters) &#8211; A year ago, Heraldo Casas found a 32-carat emerald on the outskirts of a mine near Bogota [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-11476","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}