One man's trash can very well become another man's treasure in the Colombian town of Muzo, the emerald capital of the world. In this small community in the foothills of the eastern Andes mountains ...
As a trade and production hub for diverse commodities, namely emeralds, gold, coffee and cacao, Colombia represents a key strategic market for DMCC as it looks build on the completion of the first ...
Emerald also has some other prospective acreages in Colombia and is shooting seismic in Argentina. Useful revenue is coming in from the US, where the company has some gas wells. Natural gas prices ...
Visitors to the museum learn about the history, techniques and heritage around emeralds and gold. Then, they are given the option to buy emerald and gold jewelry of their own. Past visitors were ...
and emeralds, worth an estimated up to $17 billion at today's prices. The wreck often called "the holy grail of shipwrecks," was found by Colombian naval officials off the coast of Cartagena in ...