Mine Hunters

The Mine Hunters are in Colombia, traveling to mountaintop emerald mines on the hunt for a mine that can produce a crystal-clear Chivor emerald. It could be their most dangerous mission. Only recently Colombian emerald mines were part of a “Green War,” and even today paramilitary forces, the government, and emerald barons are caught in conflict. To succeed here the team must keep a low profile.

The Mine Hunters travel to Madagascar, heading to one of the few places in the world where a single mine can produce sapphires of every color of the rainbow.

The Mine Hunters touch down on the top of the world: Greenland. Melting from climate change has revealed barren rock and brilliant gems for the first time. Locals are permitted to mine their own land, but the rookies need help. Toiling in almost perpetual daylight, can the team kick-start the ruby industry of an entire country?

The Mine Kings travel to the south of Sri Lanka on the hunt for a small-scale ethical mine that could produce one of the rarest sapphires of all — the legendary Padparadja.

The team is in Tanzania, hunting for an ethical mine that produces Africa’s infamous pink garnets.

The Mine Hunters travel to Zambia searching for an ethical small-scale mine producing one of the most sought after stones in the country – the highly elusive double-blue aquamarine.

The Mine Kings travel to Lightning Ridge, north of Sydney in Australia, on the hunt for a small-scale mine that could produce one of the rarest and most valuable opals on the planet – the Black Opal.

There’s a reason emeralds are so expensive - the best ones are rare and hard to mine. To find Zambia’s legendarily rich vein of emeralds, the Mine Hunters will have to dig deeper and remove more earth ...