Miner becomes billionaire after finding biggest tanzanite stones

Miner becomes billionaire after finding biggest tanzanite stones

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Miner becomes billionaire after finding biggest tanzanite stones

A Tanzanian small-scale miner has become a multi-billionaire after uncovering two of the biggest of the country's precious tanzanite stones ever found and selling them to the government.
Saniniu Kuryan Laizer, 52, found the stones weighing 9.27 and 5.1 kilogrammes (20.4 and 11.2 pounds) respectively in the northern Mirerani hills, an area which President John Magufuli had fenced off in 2018 to stop smuggling of the gem.
He sold them to the government for 7.7 billion Tanzanian shillings (nearly $3.3 million/2.9 million euros

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