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Lapidary Growth: With a profusion of establishments and lapidary works, Bangkok has become the gems capital.
Since the end of the Second World War, Thailand's gems and jewellery industry has grown rapidly, from the single lapidary, employing just 480 cutters into one of the country's most important foreign exchange earners. Now more than half a million people, including women, are employed in the gems industry. of these an estimated 300,000 are skilled gem cutlers. Thailand ranks as one of the world's most important gems producers and exporters.
Thailand is a skilled and inexpensive cutting centre. Therefore, countries like Australia, Sri Lanka and Myanmar have their Sapphires cut in Thailand.