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| Gem adventure of the Swiss twins. |
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| June
26, 1988. |
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| The
plane landed early – something extremely rare on the AirMad |
| line
serving
Tananarive. Mrs. Nory was standing
on the
airport's |
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tarmac, right
next to a gendarme.
Her son, her brother the |
| airport's
director and some vague
relationship accompanied
her. |
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| She
welcomed her daughter Tina coming back from Belgium. The
nine years she had spent there, |
| had
metamorphosed the young
lady, she almost became vazaha. "foreigner, in Madagascar |
| language." |
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| Tina
caught the stair's metallic fence. Her
blue dress was floating in the overheated air,
sweeping |
| the
black tarmac. She saw some familiar
silhouettes far away. The young woman showed a |
| movement of retreat, perhaps, her
diploma of chemist engineer, acquired recently, would help her |
| blur the
vindication of the assistance who
came here to
meet her, she thought
. |
| John
and Alain followed the lady. She had met the twins during the stop over in
Rome and
got |
| acquainted
with them.
This
meeting was not
fortuitous, because it was her mother who arranged |
| it. |
| Readjusting
her scarf, Mrs. Nory moved on. - I see her, she is not in a hurry to go
down, she said. |
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| The
lady did not take of her black glasses to kiss her daughter. This
coldness, intrigued Alain. |
| And,
Tina introduced her new friends, the precious stone experts, waited
impatiently in Tananarive. |
| Then,
Alain noticed a certain ambiguity and even of condescension from the
clever
lady for her |
| daughter. |
| Both vazaha precipitated towards a wooden shelf. They filled in the
immigration
forms. |
| Details
on their origin, the goal of their visit, the exact sums imported was
explicitly asked to them. |
| Then,
a police officer gave them a lined sheet to be made plug to each hotel in
which they would |
| go down. |
| Charged
of cumbersome parcels, Alain painfully cut through the crowd. |
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twins separately took seat in two cars brought
here
to pick up
them. John
went up in the
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| roomy
BMW with the mother. And
the prodigal
girl
took
seat right
next to Alain,
in the Peugeot. |
| Driving
fast, compressed against the door, Alain noticed a black Mercedes coming
in opposite |
| direction. |
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This is my uncle, the president of the national assembly, shouted Tina,
She then
added that the |
| man
- a famous reverend - had
the habit to harp virulent Marxists sermons to his flocks. |
| The hearse color
limousine disappeared behind enormous billboards marking out
the road of the |
| dike. |
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| To
find out more about the novel of Alain Darbellay :
please
CONTACT
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Here is the amazing story of the Swiss
twins. |
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John
and Alain Darbellay have been in the coloured gemstone business since
1985. |
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First,
they travelled extensively throughout Pakistan in search of quality gem
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materials coming
from Afghanistan and Pakistan. |
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Then,
since 1988, they were involved in the gemstone business in
Madagascar, |
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discovering
new deposits of
gems with their team. |
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Living
in the bush of Madagascar, several month a year among the countrymen, is
a |
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unique
experience, they say. |
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John
and Alain Darbellay are recognized as
professionals in the gemstone field, and |
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specialized
in coloured gemstones.
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John |
Alain |
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The
love of beauty and practical experience accumulated in producer countries |
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permit selecting the finest stones.
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Looking for sapphires
on the ground in Andranondambo
area. (South-East of Madagascar)
It was two years before the rush.
(The mother rock was a
limestone.)
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More
about Andranondambo
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Chrome tourmaline is very hard to extract! »» |
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This deposit produced a
small quantity of gems |
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few years ago. |
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First, the spessartite garnet is
appeared |
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close to the spring of
Besafotra river . |
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A trek of 25 kilometres among the |
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mountains is needed to reach this spot. |
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| The
rubellite mine of Anjanabonoina in the
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| high plates. ( One of the best
in the world ) »»
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| The
pegmatite of Anjanabonoina |
| produced a
large variety of rare stones |
| and many
different tourmaline colours. |
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Ilakaka,
one of the safe deposits of
Madagascar. This big hole reach more than twenty meters
depth. This vast region located south-west of
Madagascar overflow with sapphires showing a stunning array of colours.
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The small village of Ilakaka was isolated in a
region made up of sandstone. Shortly afterwards the discovery of sapphires
in the middle of 1998, it became one of the biggest town of Madagascar.
MORE ABOUT ILAKAKA
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J. & A. DARBELLAY
P.O. box 5838
( CH ) 1002 LAUSANNE
SWITZERLAND
Fax: ++ 41 21 323 36 59
info@gggems.com
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John and Alain are passionate
in every kind of art: music, painting, sculpture, literature.
Their favourite hobbies are Ski, hang
gliding, mountaineering, motocross and mountain
bike, a little bit adrenaline makes life more spicy, they
say.
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GEM SAFARI
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