one small area,\rnear Mount Kilimanjaro, in Tanzania. And its supply\rwill probably be fully mined in the next two\rdecades.\rAs one mining official puts it, “ It should never have\rreally occurred in the first place. It did occur. And\ronly this one deposit on this entire planet that is\rknownGmakes it more than a thousand times rarer\rthan diamonds. And certainly within the next 15 to\r20 years, there will be no more tanzanite to be\rn\rmined..\rThe current value of the tanzanite market, at U.S.\r$10 billion, is equivalent to that of diamonds. And\r55\rso another saying "Diamonds are forever may\rlose some of its meaning.