Country origin record

Nigeria

Country record supporting sourced Batch 1 gemstone locations.

Evidence statusPublished & sourcedLast reviewed August 17, 2026

Overview Gem relationships Sources

Evidence-backed overview

A country in the gemstone graph

Country record supporting sourced Batch 1 gemstone locations.

Bidirectional relationships

Documented gemstones

Occurrence and production are separate claims. A production label is date-bounded and does not guarantee quality, origin determination, or market value.

Documented occurrence

Tourmaline

Published locality records document this gemstone within the country.

Production not assessed

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Evidence[2]

Documented occurrence

Aquamarine

Published locality records document this gemstone within the country.

Production not assessed

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Evidence[1]

Within this country

Published places

Gemstone district

Nigeria Aquamarine Pegmatites

Nigeria is a documented source of Aquamarine, including saturated smaller material.

AquamarineOpen record

Gemstone district

Nigeria Cuprian Tourmaline Deposits

Nigeria is a documented source of copper-bearing blue-to-green Tourmaline used in Paraíba-type origin research.

TourmalineOpen record

Evidence ledger

Sources & verification

Sources are deduplicated across the geographic record. Current-production claims receive explicit review dates; a map point never substitutes for geological or production evidence.

[1]
Aquamarine Quality Factors.
Gemological Institute of America
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[2]
Yusuke Katsurada, Ziyin Sun, Christopher M. Breeding, and Barbara L. Dutrow. Geographic Origin Determination of Paraíba Tourmaline.
Gems & Gemology · 2019
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