The mines of Muzo, Colombia

Mysterious and mystical, enveloped in myth and mantled in mountains and jungle, Muzo is surely the most fabled of the world’s great heritage gemstone mines, offering the highest quality emeralds in the world from the legendary Muzo mine in Boyaca, Colombia. Hidden away, high up, in rugged, sacred land, laden with riches, the Muzo mine was, and is still today, veined with emeralds of mesmerising light-filled beauty, emeralds revered and worshipped by Aztecs, Incas, Muiscas, for hundreds, even thousands of years.