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| Under a scorching heat, the first sapphires are brought to light in 1991 | ||
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| The small village of Marohotro is located on the bank of the Manambolo river and in the valley of the same name; at 8 kilometers south of Andranondambo. This Hamlet became universally known in the stone business to have delivered among the most beautiful blue sapphires produced in the world. | ||||||
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| Andranondambo Sapphire Discovery | ||||||
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| Andronondambo Sapphire: associated with coarse recrystallized marble and small pyroxene crystals. | Plagioclasite sample with a sapphire crystal. | Andronondambo Sapphire: associated with small pyroxene crystals and plagioclasite. | Sapphire:associated with plagioclasite, pyroxene and recrystallized marble. | Nepheline crystals associated with plagioclasite. | ||||||
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| Big hole mechanically worked, Andranondambo area, visible on Google Earth. | |
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