At present, there are various opinions about the value of the largest cluster of gems ever found in the world. Top gem merchants claim that this stone is of little value.
Gem miners and small gem merchants have stated that what gem merchants often do is devalue whatever type of gem they find, and that it is their common practice to reduce it and buy it for a pittance. In the gem trade, “beating the stone” means this method, and when a gem is found and shown to one gem merchant and shown to another trader, the first entrepreneur who first encounters it is a program that informs all the top businessmen about it. Was made. Accordingly, the price of the stone has come down and there are many opportunities to go back to the first trader, they say.
Since the vast majority of miners do not have the knowledge to set a high price for the gem that comes after a lot of hard work, it is the habit of many large gem merchants to exploit their labor, and the merchants who beat the stones and buy the stones for a pittance It was also stated that the true value of the stone would be obtained. In most cases, they sell a gemstone worth around Rs. 500,000 and sell it for tens of millions of rupees.
The main objective of these businessmen who have different views on this large cluster of gemstones that have been found in Sri Lanka is that the main objective may have been to defeat this gemstone. Many pro-country people are of the opinion that it should not be done. It was further stated that most large scale gem merchants have no humanity or environmental affection.