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In
1658, Etienne de Flacourt, the governor of Fort-Dauphin mentions sapphires in the south of
Madagascar, |
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and he was drowned on his last voyage to Madagascar on the 10th of June 1660. |
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1808, Barthélemy Hugon writes that in the valley of Ambolo there is a so beautiful stone and so rare that his
lapidaries
have not |
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above of all that is not diamond.
.... In 1991, at the time of the great dryness in the south, |
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sapphire samples are found on the ground, several centuries after their first discovery.
It became the first exploited Madagascar |
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sapphire. |
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Sapphire
¦ Pink Sapphire ¦
¦ Sunset Sapphire
¦ Violet Sapphire ¦ |
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