Mogok: The Legendary Valley Of Rubies 

What really stands out for me, besides gem quality, is the way the mining is done. Very respectful to the landscape, leaving nature intact instead of stripping off every living thing and leaving a scar where nothing is able to grow again.

The best gemstone documentary ever..

Absolutely amazing documentary with people who are absolutely passionate about Bamese rubies, sapphires and peridots and the rich culture and history of Mogok. The gem fever is infectious. I have a renewed respect for these beautiful gems and how they are sourced and valued as a part tue country's unique history. Thank you!

Wonderfully narrated - so clear and precise. Thank you!

Thank you this video. I'm from Myanmar.

I have snuck into mogok 3 times, been caught by the cops who had no idea what to do with me once . Amazing among hundreds of amazing Burma stories of the total 2 years I spent bicycling around that country.

I appreciate finding your excellent video today as im starting to learn about gems etc... And your journey showed how beautiful these beauties are created from our wonderful Mother Earth.. Thankyou for the lesson and for sharing.. Thank-you

Ok,dear friends... I AM,IN GOOSEBUMPS !!! Thank you for the video. Once again,I learned more abauth my hungarien heritages..the one not to many people know...,,non,nunka,nada🙏 .It is so sad,my Soul is crying 😢. You are my people,and you don't even know it.I love you all !!! These is verry inportant !!! You ,MCP,Blue Cap production, you have mentioned a name Persian King.Who was he ? What famaly bloodline if not hungarien ? Becose the word Persia,Perzsa,is hungarien.Perzselt,Perzse ,Perzs3lten,ami egésszen egy Nagy per,,kerek perec,,. PLEASE,show these to a hungarien friend.He will tell you the rest.... It is my nations,it is my Creations,where you are all,all of you, Period... First,let's look at the name Berma.So sorry,these is BírMa.In hungarien it means,,Wee can Handel it today,, Perzsa,Burma Mogok,Mendelé,my dear friends,you forgot,the EARTH History becose you never know it,the one is steel hiding,in the true,original undestanding...But who cares,,,just let get rich on ,,older people backs,,without any respect. Dear friends,Godd bless your soul,your comment's, your video,your everything. I LIKE TO JOIN YOU !!!,BUT,only you can stop it any time.. These video you so,is coming from my past, and they creators don't even know it.Bless them !!!And I bless them to... They don't know whath they are doing , but they do it anyway... They don't understand me ... Ok. You must relay,on the hungarien truth today !!! Over..

Been to Mogok few times. Most of the largest mines are owned and operated by joint venture between military government's owned company and Chinese companies. Military government provided land, labor and security, while Chinese come in with money. There is zero concern for environmental impact from mining and little regards to the welfare of the natives. All the good gems go straight to China, Hong Kong markets for top dollars while there is little benefit to the natives and the country.

I watch a LOT of videos........THIS IS A GOOD ONE.

great documentary thanks legend ❤

Great video! Thank you for this unique peek of Myanmar 🇲🇲✨💕

Gutsy fellow with plenty of knowledge. It was fun all around. Very informative. Thank you very much.

As Ruby is my birth stone it really amaze me how beautiful it is ! ❤

Thank you for this excellent documentary! A breath of fresh air!

Excellent speaker,,, Great Job,,👏👏👏🌷🌷🌷

A very good modern documentary

World class video as well as the gems.

Loving the higher-quality video! This is fantastic. As a rockhound, it must be amazing when they hit one of those pockets of massive crystals.

I see my uncle played pool table best childhood memory lovely village miss Mogok a lot.

Wonderful video,, hard to make,,🙏🙏🌷🌷👏👏

Very informative documentary..thanks for sharing..now I know different types of gems ❤

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Crazy geology that all best gems are concentrated in one valley!

Thank you! It's always very interesting watching gem adventures around the world. I memorized the world map since I was a teenager 😄

wow how dangerous this looks to get these Ruby gems out of the marble. I have several rubies on my wedding necklace of 24 karat gold setting, the gold is so soft I have to be super careful when I even touch it...been 36 yrs since I married...my mother gave it to me as a wedding gift and I had no idea of the value! So grateful to know how precious it really is! So grateful for these hard workers 🙏

I'm way more interested in mineralogical specimens than I am in jewelry. preserving the crystals on some of its matrix is important for that.

Top show - thanks heaps Aussie fan

I am watching the video, not because of the gems but to listen the gentleman accented English - it reminds me of my friend Giovanni Capello during my Masters degree in Design in Domus - Milano. Though I been to the place Mogok along with my friend from ethnic Myanmarese community as I am native of the Indian territory bordering Myanmar and Bangladesh. During British Indian period my grandfather was British district administrator in Burma.

Im sri lanka welcome to you your good job come in sri lanka 🙏🙏❤️❤️❤️

Ruby has always fascinated me. However as mentioned it remains cheap compared to the difficulties in finding one. The mining is very risky indeed. Thanks a lot for a great documentary.

Wowww the wealth of their country😮they can give their people a good life

Thank you very much . Very interesting journey of stones wonderful 👏 thanks for sharing

Love this ! Watched a bunch of times ! Top couple gem stone documentary’s Forsure ! When they go way down in the mine near the end with the music and vibe ! Crazzz

myanmar will be rich country if the government handle it properly

Omg i can't stop watching it. Bcuz i love blinds.

I am really appreciated for this documentary. This is absolutely knowledgeable about the mogok and its gemstones.

I am grateful to those who recorded this, and to all the people who appeared in this ducmantere. and the presenter is an expert, unbelievable, what a beautiful documentary, unimaginable MOGOK!

Very professional and interesting film. You are a real magnetic personality, Federico.

Amazing feeling I got . thank you

I appreciate the beauty of stones like everyone else but let's face it, they're mainly being mined to satisfy the vanity of the rich minority. Industrial mining techniques like those in the film will rapidly turn a rainforest into a nutrient devoid desert, this negatively impacts food production, resulting in conflicts, starvation and forced migration on a large scale - these effects then ripple out from the epicentre and unrest is felt far and wide. Small scale mining is sustainable but investors prefer to 'get rich quick!'

Best adventure. Enjoyed every bit of this video.

Incredible journey to the mines. It is very hard work for the miners & there life is without it, although they spent life time in these precious stones handling them everyday. !

I won a 5.2 ct cut ruby for saving a little girl in 1999. I was told that the supply of large gem quality rubies had dried up.

nice film , thanks for all film crew , greetings from egypt

mr. barlocher is global treasure., have been watching for a long time., could mr. barlocher please do an update on the MIM museum in beruit.,?.,? i have been worried about what may have happened after the explosion., that place is priceless and i have been wondering if it's amazing collection made it .,., so many thanks for your knowledge and allowing us to see such things.,.,

It's very evident why gemstones are so expensive. The miners risk their lives every day. Thank you for showing us everything.

such excellent documentary. thank you

Call “Land of the Ruby” for a reason. 40:58 I used to do this during summer school breaks. I missed my hometown.

A "must see" ! Thanks a lot !

top...tnx

Properly managed society. Thanks for the intel.

Thank you for the amazing video

What a fantastic video, eh? So great for both knowledge and education. Priceless. Simply Priceless. Thank you so much for sharing this wonderful video. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 👍

I liked the video, commented and subscribed. ☝🇹🇷🤲🇹🇷

Nice and beautiful picture with so amazing background view awesome

Thank you for the eye opening truth of the gem mining industry in Myanmar! I wish I could afford a 1 carat unheated gem!

I have ruby Burma stone , I appreciate the miner work , the ruby Burma is very fantastic stone

The legendary quest with the legendary car and the legendary professor and the legendary stones

These mines are a nightmare, absolutely terrifying. Precious jems are beautiful, but all that backbreaking work in horrible and dangerous working conditions by some unlucky groups of men doesn't really seem fair...knowing that some other people will become immensely rich.

I Will definately watch this later

All I can say?i❤them all…Wowwwwww

Fabulous. Thank you for this incredible video

I like how the guy holding the dynamite is smoking a cigarette definitely MSHAW approved

I wonder when was this filmed. Oh nvm! 2013. And I was amazed when Federico started speaking Burmese. Did not see that coming!!

Very nice, educational video. THANK YOU!!!!!!!!

Super great video!

It is clearly to see that the locals are not getting enough proceeds of the mines a lot is going to the mine owner and probably to another country so they do not realize that a lot of stealing is going on in their country.

Great video! The best. Thankx!

မြန်မာနိုင်ငံဂုဏ်ယူစရာအဖိုးတန်ကျောက်မြက်ရတနာထွက်ရှိသောမြို့လေးပါအေးချမ်သာရာပီအမြင်ပေ3000အထက်မှတီရှိပါသည်

Spectacular!!!

this was excellent TY

This video was a great look into an area most can not go, that must've been an amazingly scary exhilarating trip down the mine 😂 been caving before never again I prefer to look for crystals above the ground. That Sapphire was breathtaking i was captivated by it but I am a Virgo.😍

Fantastic. Wow, thx for taking us on this magic carpet ride!!!

Wonderful trip to the ruby world .

Greed is rampant in the world. The gems have a spiritual earthy quality. Exploitation is wrong.

Great video, I appreciate the information over rubies and other gems. I also would like to hear about the miners conditions, share of the profits and safety of those mines, thank you.

36:00 I absolutely love that gold chain. 22k is softer but the color it has is amazing

Just a fantastic journey, I love it very much

AMAZING!!

Amazing. What a great video.

thank you ,Im also collecting gems in Mogu

လှပတောက်ပသောအဖိုတန်တွင်ထွက်ကျောက်ရိုင်ကျောက်ချောမျာလှပသောရောင်စုံကျောက်များသင်၏ဗီဒီယိုသည်ဂုဏ်ယူစွာဖြစ်မျဝေပေးလိုက်ပါသည်

Hai bisa anda membuat video tentang cara mengolah batu Ruby dengan bentuk cabochon,terima kasih.

I would just as much like to have the beautiful calcite, quartz and marble as the rubies. The only reason we even know about rubies is because we were after the calcite and quartz.

very interesting to me,,

One of the best video love it Hope l visit someday

Enjoying this ....T is silent in peridot, I usually never say that out loud :) and are you Brazilian ? So Enjoyed .......Thank You... Nice people can see what we have to do to get these

Very dangerous! how people work here and what they eat, live in deep inside?

Love this 💕

❤❤❤😮😮😮very amasing information

excellent!!!

This was very, very interesting. Thank you so much for sharing. I was amazed at the danger and beauty of the acquisition of these gems. One doesn’t always know the price the people pay to hunt these beauties. Very well done!

At 53:20 Love the miner smoking with the dynamite sticks and now I can clearly understand the danger on this line of work...😉

When I think about gemstones it reminds me of digging in the dirt in the dirt and finding them on the ground and in a river.

Such friendly people.

Your video was hand on and very informative. Do you follow Dan Hurd gold prospector.

My aunt and uncle visited the pagoda many years ago, perhaps in the 50's after they married as a honeymoon. They were on their way across Asia to London, before they had children?

Very interesting video, thank you! Does heating a gem decrease the value or does it increase the value of a not as great a gem??

I am interested in the calllouses on the hands of Federico. What does he do to earn these?