There is no doubt that Nepal is rich in natural resources but instead of repeating this thousand times we need to wisely identify and utilize our resources. In fact Nepal has great potential in water resources, forest resources and land resources. No matter how many people work or depend in agricultural sector, Nepal is never going to be exporter of agricultural products or even independent on it. If we can stabilize political situation in Nepal, tourism may appear as the biggest industry of the country. But what about minerals? Lots of Nepalese think that we have  numerous mineral deposits but this is not the reality. We don't have huge metallic deposits in Nepal but still we have some good non-metallic deposits of magnesite, limestone and others. Another good possibility is in gemstones. Some deposits of aquamarine, garnets, sapphire, ruby quartz and kyanite are already in the stage of exploitation. But the biggest problem in the gemstone industry is that the local investors don't have access to the international market and they produce only raw from the mines. This makes the huge difference in what they get and what the Indian traders get from the international market. If we become able to only cut the gemstones in good shapes and sell in international markets we will have greater profit. Of course there are some limitations of Nepalese gem industry. As Nepal lies in tectonically active area, we can't expect bigger size of gemstones and also this industry will not consume higher number of people.

Here is one link where you can see the price of  Nepalese kyanite in international market after cutting and polishing where in Nepal we are selling raw kyanite NRs 700 - NRs 6,000 as far I know depending on various properties like size, shape, color.

conversion factor 1 carat = 0.2 gm

http://www.mineralminers.com/html/kyagems.stm

thats where your name Geology came from :) , just guessing !!

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Hi, I've been involved to gem business for last one year. If you could spare some time. Let's talk

I am following too, a friend of mine is opening a gemstone kiosk at a mall.I also got a relative who owns 4 gemstone stores in ktm and they make all the jewelry in house. They have been asking me to help them to expand in US but I dont have any experience in this field.

Thank you in advance.

@looser..go work in that mall with your friend perhaps...even part time would be great..Wtihin few months you'll have your own...also people do great business through Etsy..on these kind of craft businesses. May be open an Etsy account, have your family memeber in Nepal response to questions from customers..and you be the point of contact for that page..with phone number etc 

wow, something....like great opportunity for nepal...