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Local entrepreneur wants to restart mining operations in Cempaka

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Local resident shows the mining site at Cempaka Diamond Mine in South Kalimantan, Indonesia. (Photo by Jun Suzuki)

JUN SUZUKI, Nikkei staff writer

BANJARMASIN, Indonesia -- Cempaka Diamond Mine in southern Kalimantan, the Indonesian portion of the island of Borneo, is seen by some experts as one of the richest diamond fields in the world. A 166-carat stone and a rare blue diamond were discovered there in the past.

But with the halt of large-scale mining halted due to environmental and other problems, local people now engage in traditional methods of diamond hunting.

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