Second day of 2019 Mid-year Myanmar Gem emporium was held at Maniyadana Jade Hall in Nay Pyi Taw yesterday. Local and international merchant observed to buy raw jade, cut and polished jade, raw gem stones, cut and polished gem stone and jade like stones under open tender.

Shops selling jewelries, sculptures and gemstone art are set up at the event.

At the event, all items will be sold under open tender system. The gem lots will be on display form September 16th to 18th and will be sold until 19th. The lots are valued at 500 Euro and above. Jade lots will be on display from September 16th to 19th and will be sold form 20th to 25th. The basic price for raw jade lots is 5000 euro, and for cut and polished jade lots it is 1000 Euro and above. Mid-year Myanmar Gem emporium includes nine jade lots prices at over 1 million Euro.

Visitors can enter with radio – frequency identification technology ( REID ) used cards along with their fingerprint checked at shutter gates. Bags were also checked with X-ray Machine Detector. ATM and money changers are also placed at the emporium for the convenience of the attendees. —MNA(Translated by Alphonsus)