Mt. Pleasant Pyramid | 1913-01-24 | Page 2 | Where we Find Emeralds

WHERE WE FIND EMERALDS Famous Muzo Mines in the Republic A of Colombia Produce Finest C' Gems. The finest emeralds are found in the Republic of Colombia, at the famous fa-mous Muzo mines in the department of Boyaca, seventy miles north by west of Bogota, which have been worked since 1558. The Spaniards mined there in the middle of the sixteenth six-teenth century, but withdrew after a time, owing to continual fighting with the Indians; with the result that for awhile the locality of the mines was unknown. They are now worked by an English company, in partnership partner-ship with the government. The emeralds emer-alds at Muzo occur in calcite veins running through black carboniferous limestone in all directions and at all angles. Often the limestone is covered cov-ered with earth, in which bushes and trees are growing; this has to ba j -cleared before nrosnectiner is nossible. I