麻豆社

A Tanzanian miner who made headlines in June for discovering two rough Tanzanite stones valued at $3.4m sold another one for $2m on Monday morning. The third discovery by Saniniu Laizer, who is a small-scale miner, weighed 6.3kg. There was a lot of excitement from members of his community in the build up to the sale and hundreds were waiting from early morning to witness it. How did he manage to find a third stone? Is he the luckiest man on earth? The 麻豆社's Aboubakar Famau reports from the capital, Dodoma.

(Photo: Saniniu Laizer with his original find in June. Credit: Tanzania Ministry of Minerals)