(18 Apr 2006)
Mindi-Kandashi, Kenya
1. Pan of landscape
2. Various of elephants in the area
3. Miners walking into Tsavorite mine
4. Various of miners working inside mine, miners preparing blast charge
5. Miners leaving mine
6. Mine owner and discoverer of Tsavorite, Campbell Bridges, leaving mine UPSOUND (English):
"They are finishing the tying-off now."
7. Various of blast
8. Smoke after blast
9. Inside tunnel after blast
10. Various of head miner, Kasibi Mboti Kaingu, hammering
11. SOUNDBITE (Kiswahili) Kasibi Mboti Kaingu, head miner:
"After we dynamite it, we reach beneath the reef. We are working on the reef to see what is in it."
12. Miners shifting rocks out of the mine
13. Miners sieving stones
14. Miners washing stones
15. Miners laying washed stones on a table where Tsavorites can be seen on top
16. Campbell Bridges looking at table UPSOUND (English):
"Yes, yes they''re good smalls, yes. A lot of pyrite, which is also dense and heavy. So it all comes together in the centre. And if these were diamonds they would also come out in the centre like that."
17. Tsavorite being put in a can of water
18. SOUNDBITE (English) Campbell Bridges, Tsavorite mine owner:
"So you have purity of colour, you have added toughness - they are more tough than emerald, you have much greater brilliance, you have at least a thousand times greater rarity and it''s totally natural. That''s why it is the most unique and best-suited gemstone in the world for commercial jewellery, in green colour. It is the Rolls Royce or king of green commercial gemstones."
Nairobi
19. Street scene
20. Interior Bridges office
21. Various of rocks from mines (where cutting takes place)
22. Bridges handling Tsavorites UPSOUND (English): "We have cut these out of the rough material that came out of the reef. These pieces are relatively clean. So we now go ahead with the process of doing a pre-pre-former on them and then they will go for pre-forming and for cutting."
23. Bridges pre-forming Tsavorite
24. Various of Tsavorite being handled in workshop
25. Various of Tsavorite after cutting and ready to be sold
26. Exterior of a jewellery shop
27. Various of displays of Tsavorite jewellery
28. SOUNDBITE (English) Kennedy Kamwathi, jeweller:
"Tsavorite is not treated in any way. It''s a great stone that you don''t have to put in fire or any other kind of treatment to get it looking good. Tsavorite is natural, whereas most other gemstones are treated in one way or another."
Mindi-Kandashi
29.Exterior of mine
SOUNDBITE (English) Campbell Bridges, Tsavorite mine owner:
"I am very conscious of the environment. I love nature, I love trees, I hate cutting trees. Therefore when I locate the head of an ore shoot whether it be gemstones or industrial minerals or precious metals, I do a minimum of open-cast excavation before I go underground."
30. Various of elephants
31. Landscape including Mt. Kasikau
SUGGESTED LEAD IN
Diamonds may be a girl''s best friend -- but a relative newcomer on the gem stone block is also attracting attention.
Twice as brilliant as the emerald, it''s known as Tsavorite.
It''s being mined by hand in Kenya -- three hundred and fifty kilometres (two hundred and eighteen miles) east of the capital Nairobi.
STORYLINE
Kenya is famed for it''s beautiful landscapes -- and it''s wildlife.
And now it''s set to become even more popular for its gemstones.
One relatively newly discovered stone in particular, the Tsavorite, is capturing the eyes of commercial jewellers.
Later he opened this mine in Kenya at Mindi-Kandashi.
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