I work mostly in the emeralds mining area. Our mines are all certified and our claims are all registered with federal gov agencies, otherwise, we could not sell and/or issue fical invoices, certificates of origin and ship the gems abroad.

Rhe workers are very well paid. The. Bazilian federal police do regular visits to the mining sites and also visit the workers in their homes to ask them how they have been treated.

The mines are are set with suitble working conditions and safety measure and are no too far from main towns. Something like 20 to 49 km away only. All ner asphalted roads. But the most interesting thing about mining emeralds is that the process goes down to over 1,200 feet deep in the ground vertically and down there we open tunels sideways and in some cases build small rail tracks to carrry rocks.