Colombian emerald (Muzo)

The finest emeralds in the world, by universal agreement, come from a few mines in the Boyaca hills of Colombia: Muzo, Chivor and Coscuez. The Muisca people worked them before the Spanish took them by force, and the deep grass-green Colombian stone is the benchmark every other emerald is measured against. The mines are PRIVATE and the region historically dangerous; buy in Bogota’s emerald district.