{"id":149616,"date":"2020-06-25T02:39:58","date_gmt":"2020-06-25T00:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/06\/25\/small-scale-miner-finds-biggest-tanzanite-gems-in-history-worth-3-3m\/"},"modified":"2020-06-25T02:39:58","modified_gmt":"2020-06-25T00:39:58","slug":"small-scale-miner-finds-biggest-tanzanite-gems-in-history-worth-3-3m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=149616","title":{"rendered":"Small-scale miner finds biggest tanzanite gems in history, worth $3.3m"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saniniu Laizer plans to build a school and shopping mall near his home in Tanzania, but will hold a big party firstA Tanzanian subsistence miner has hit the jackpot after the government handed him a cheque for 7.74bn Tanzanian shillings ($3.35m) for the two largest tanzanite gemstones ever found.The two dark violet-blue gemstones, each about the dimensions of a forearm, were discovered by Saniniu Laizer in one of the tanzanite mines in the north of the country which are surrounded by a wall to control cross-border smuggling of the gemstones. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/25\/small-scale-miner-finds-biggest-tanzanite-gems-in-history-worth-33m\" target=\"_blank\">Small-scale miner finds biggest tanzanite gems in history, worth .3m<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saniniu Laizer plans to build a school and shopping mall near his home in Tanzania, but will hold a big party firstA Tanzanian subsistence miner has hit the jackpot after the government handed him a cheque for 7.74bn Tanzanian shillings ($3.35m) for the two largest tanzanite gemstones ever found.The two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=149616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=149616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=149616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=149616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}