Pailin - Legend and gemstones.

Dear all,
I'm happy to invite you to discover the most recent field video on my new TH-cam Channel:
In this short video you will discover the ruby and sapphire deposit around Pailin in Cambodia that I visited in April 2017 to collect reference samples for the Bahrain Institute for Pearls & gemstones (DANAT). The area is fascinating for people interested in the way gemstones are mined for many reasons: First, the legend about the discovery is presents an interesting link between gem mining and conservation. After many years of mechanized gem mining at the end of the 20th century when the area was disputed between Khmer Rouge and Pro Vietnamese troops, the region has become plagued with land mines.
Today thanks to the gems found in rivers, many survivors from these terrible years are making a living mining rubies and sapphire in a very unusual way as they work season after season the same gem traps they dig in the river beds. Indeed during each rainy season these traps get refilled in heavy mineral and thus they can be mined again. Working in these pits is great for them as there the fact that they lost a leg or a foot is not too much of a burden.
Many thanks for this video to all the people we met in Cambodia for their support and more particularly to Sovanny.
Enjoy

[@JToms1111]

Love all your Field Gemology video Vicent Pardieu. It would be a dream of mine to come on one of your adventures. Ive watched all of your videos on the GIA Field Gemology youtube.

[@claudiamanna7206]

Très bien Vincent.

[@nithkiller8382]

Thank you bro
For love my country😁❤️❤️

[@iversobakk]

very nice vincent

[@syedmaricar9946]

Good gems comes from pailin also simple people achieve great things in life.

[@ViralVidPro]

good

[@keatlenarith1]

Dear, Prof. Vincent Pardieu
i'm interesting in Cambodian gemstones especially Zircon in Ratanakiri Province, Cambodia.
so do you have any research paper or doc related to cambodian gemstones or zircon in cambodia??
thanks you in advance
Best Regarding,

[@VincentPardieuFieldGemology]

Dear Keat, Sorry but I'm not a Prof.: I dont have a chair in any University. I'm a field gemologist traveling around the world and doing his best to share what he has the privilege to see... :-) So far no, I dont have yet worked on any research papers on these zircons, but I will probably do that in the future. Step by step: First we collect samples, then we work on them, then eventually we will publish some results. :-)

[@BeNOMADS]

At least you can watch our film about the Zircons of Ratanakiri : th-cam.com/video/AzIshb6UZ9E/w-d-xo.html

[@gemstonecollector7326]

😍😍😍

[@baguzgemstone]

Wow..

[@Engineer_life_0]

wowww

[@gemstonecollector7326]

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[@jonathanmorand8893]

vas tu souvent te promener dans ce coin la ?

[@VincentPardieuFieldGemology]

Hum, j’ai du visiter Pailin environ 30 fois depuis 2004...

[@Daquy-phongthuy]

l like the stone l registered your ftiend”s channel

[@sopheskpheap1623]

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[@tinchieleang6502]

Je suis nostagique

[@AsgharKhan-cv6bs]

Very beautiful stone

[@prosokzin7091]

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[@brosimremix2267]

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[@tetramtetram5370]

Dommage pas en français

[@BeNOMADS]

Bonjour, ca y est, les sous-titres Français viennent d'être ajoutés!!!!