Alexandrite World Occurrences & Mining Localities
”We’re not lost. We’re locationally challenged.”
John M. Ford.
Russian Alexandrite
Brazilian Alexandrite
Indian Alexandrite
In 1831 Izumrudnye Kopi on the river Tokovaya were open by Yakov Kokovin, Director of the Ekaterinburg Lapidary Works and in 1833 the first alexandrite in the world was found in the mica schists of the Tokovaya river. The Hematita mine is known for the finest alexandrite, but today there are very few high quality alexandrites from Hematita on the market. A new owner has taken over the old Hematita mine and no one knows how much more the deposit can produce. The first mines in Deobhog began to produce some alexandrite in 2000 and currently producing the bulk of today´s alexandrite, but the focus of the current mining is in Andrha Pradesh province near the city of Vishakhapatnam.
 La Madera Mtn. Novo Cruzeiro Teafilo Otoni Serra Dourada Caraiba mine Carnaiba Mine Hematita Itaitinga Mine Esmeraldas de Ferros Izumrudnye Kopi Malyshevskoye Deobhog mines Mogok Horana Balangoda Ilakaka Lake Manyara Tunduru Girdlestone Farm Dowerin
Confirmed findings of Alexandrite (1833 - 2008)
Australia	Brazil	India	
Dowerin
	Carnaiba Mine
Caraiba mine
Esmeraldas de Ferros
Hematita
Itaitinga Mine
Novo Cruzeiro
Teafilo Otoni
Serra Dourada	Deobhog mines
	
Madagascar	Myanmar	Russia	
Ilakaka
	Mogok
	Izumrudnye Kopi
Malysheva mine
	
Sri Lanka	Tanzania	USA	
Balangoda
Horana	Tunduru
Lake Manyara	La Madera Mtn.
	
Zimbabwe			
Girdlestone Farm