The Fight for the $200 Million Sapphire Empire in Madagascar

Описание: "The Fight for the $200 Million Sapphire Empire in Madagascar"

They called it Sapphire Rush.

Thousands of men. In the middle of the night. Shovels, pickaxes, children strapped to their backs. No roads. No laws. Just jungle—and gems.

By morning, the jungle had disappeared.

In its place: a new town built out of tarps and desperation. Armed men patrolled the edges. Helicopters hovered overhead. And buried beneath their feet—was a sapphire field so large, so pure, so absurdly valuable—that it broke the global gemstone market.

One single stone pulled from the ground was worth more than a Lamborghini.

Another? Sold in Bangkok for $1.5 million.

And then, almost as quickly as it began… people started disappearing. Bodies turned up in shallow graves. Police officers took bribes. The military sealed the town off.

But the sapphires kept moving. And the money kept flowing.
And to understand how Madagascar lost control of a $200 million gemstone empire... we have to start in the middle of nowhere.

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