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Sumjam sapphire mines, Padder

ROCKHOUNDING PROHIBITED / VIEW ONLY DOCUMENTED

Where: Jammu and Kashmir · Asia · approx. 33.42, 76.28 (vicinity only)

Why this spot: High Himalayan pocket deposit above the Padder valley, source of the classic Kashmir sapphires of the 1880s

What turns up: sapphire (no legal public access)

Access: Prohibited / view only.

State-guarded deposit under Jammu and Kashmir government control, no private collecting.

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