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  • MINE KINGS

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A renowned gem hunter and an Aussie miner are on a mission to find the world’s most precious gems. The team travels to Madagascar, to one of the few places in the world where a single mine can produce sapphires of every colour of the rainbow.

EPISODE GUIDE

  • Mine Kings: Colombian Emeralds
    The mine hunters are in Colombia, travelling to the cloud-covered mountaintop emerald mines of the Chivor district.
  • Mine Kings: African Aquamarine
    A renowned gem hunter and an Aussie miner are on a mission to find the world’s most precious gems. The team travel to Zambia on the hunt for an ethical small-scale mine producing one of the most sought after stones in the country - the highly elusive double blue aquamarine.
  • Mine Kings: King Sapphire
    A renowned gem hunter and an Aussie miner are on a mission to find the world’s most precious gems. The team travels to Sri Lanka on the hunt for an ethical mine that could produce one of the rarest sapphires of all — the legendary Padparadja.
  • Mine Kings: King Saffire
    A renowned gem hunter and an Aussie miner are on a mission to find the world’s most precious gems. The team travels to Sri Lanka on the hunt for an ethical mine that could produce one of the rarest sapphires of all — the legendary Padparadja.
  • Mine Kings: Black Opal
    A renowned gem hunter and an Aussie miner travel to Lighting Ridge in Australia on the hunt for a mine that could produce one of the rarest opals on the planet – the Black Opal.
  • Mine Kings: Seven Sapphires
    A renowned gem hunter and an Aussie miner are on a mission to find the world’s most precious gems. The team travels to Madagascar, to one of the few places in the world where a single mine can produce sapphires of every colour of the rainbow.
  • Mine Kings: Explosives And Emeralds
    A renowned gem hunter and an Aussie miner are on a mission to find the world’s most precious gems. The team venture into African bad-lands to find a small scale mine that could produce the clearest and purest of emeralds, known as 'Hamish'.
  • Mine Kings: Dynamite Garnet
    A renowned gem hunter and an Aussie miner are on a mission to find the world’s most precious gems. The team travel to Masai land in Tanzania on the hunt for a small-scale ethical mine that produces Africa's infamous Pink Garnets.
  • Mine Kings: Blood Red Rubies
    A renowned gem hunter and an Aussie miner are on a mission to find the world’s most precious gems. The team travel to Greenland where melting ice caps have exposed a wasteland of barren rock and brilliant gems.
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