Million Euro-value: This is the man who has found the gems

rich Saniniu Kuryan Laizer was before. The 52-year-old business man from the North of Tanzania, has 2000 cattle, four women and 30 children. He also owns the license to dig on a small Claim in the Merelani hills in the precious stone. Now the Masai stone is rich. In the past week, he found two precious tanzanite chunks. They weigh 9.2 and 5 to 8 pounds and are the largest stones of this kind were ever found. The biggest-a-days carried tanzanite weighed only 3.3 pounds.

Thilo Thielke

Free Rapporteur for Africa, based in Cape town.

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On Wednesday sold Laizer of the Tanzanian government Fund and received 7.7 billion Tanzanian shilling, equivalent to about 2.9 million euros. This is a lot of money in a country where the average income is less than $ 100 a month, even if precious stone experts are of the view, Laizer have not yet received much too little for the two rocks that he himself had dug out of the earth.

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