Here are, in bullet-point form, the most notable events. The timeline of the events that led to the discovery and depletion of Kashmir Sapphires is fascinating. Timeline of Kashmir History Very Rare Kashmir Sapphire Ring from our Collection. To this day, no other Kashmir deposits have been found. However, they quickly exhausted the other mine too. And with the help of British geologists, they found a new mine in the valley below.

Hungry for more, the Maharajah sought the assistance of the British, who by then had ruled India for more than a decade. The miners had to work in extreme conditions in the hot summer with little to no rest.īy the end of 1887, the famous Kashmir Mine was exhausted. Who sent a regiment of guards to protect the mine, along with miners to dig out This caught the eye of the Maharajah (a regional ruler in India), It took the locals a good period of time to realize that the stones wereĪctually sapphire. These rocks were almost completely bare except for the occasional protruding blue stones. A landslide atop the Himalayas revealed an unusual type of rocks under the usual layer of soil.

The history of Kashmir sapphires all started in 1880 in the Kashmir region on the Indian subcontinent. History of Kashmir Sapphires A picture of the Kashmir Sapphire Mines.

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