Pakistan has the potential to become World’s leading gemstones exporter

.the government is making efforts to promote the gemstone industry so that the country's vast potential of glittering stones can be exploited in a professional manner.
“Local and foreign investors have been invited as there exists a tremendous potential in scientific mining, cutting and polishing for value addition of gemstones from the known localities and exploration for further findings,” official sources toldThey said Pakistan, based on its potential in mineral wealth, could become a great hub of the gemstone industry, on a scale comparable to that of Brazil, with just a few essential measures to enhance the exploration of resources and growth of gemstone business.
Answering a question, the sources informed that the country had exported a variety of precious stones worth Rs 2.570 billion in a period of three years, adding "The country exported precious stones worth Rs 1363.318 million in the year 2013-14, Rs 785.5 million in 2014-15 and Rs 412.5 million in 2015-16They said different varieties of minerals like Peridot, Aquamarine, Topaz in different colors of violet, pink, golden and champagne, Ruby, Emerald, rare-earth minerals Bastnaesite and Xenotime, Sphene, Tourmaline, besides many types of Quartz made the country prominent in the mineral world.
The northern and northwestern parts of the country are shrouded by the three world-famous mountain ranges called Hindukush, Himalaya, and Karakorum, from where nearly all the minerals, The sources said out of 25 precious and semi precious stones and mineral specimens, seven were intermittently exploited and marketed all over the world.
United States, China, United Arab Emirates, Germany, Hong Kong, United Kingdom, Canada , France, Thailand and Saudi Arabia are the top ten countries where precious stones have been exported during the three-year period. Pakistan is currently offering to the world market, have been found so far.