Industry, including alcoholic breweries, textile factories, sugar mills, and gem mines also exists.

There are many gem mines around the area, especially in paddy fields on lower ground, which are deep around 10m to 50m.

There are also other gem mines located throughout the area.

To the gem mines?

From 1971 to 1979, freewheeling gangsters, many of Lebanese or Syrian extraction, fought over the country's gem mines.

They support themselves as best they can, scratching for rubies and sapphires in the mostly exhausted gem mines or selling one another vegetables in the market.

He had recently called in local police to evict people who had been working the gem mine in his absence.

Vaishali, ruled by the Licchavis, went to war with the kingdom of Magadha at some point, due to a border dispute involving gem mines.

Many famous gem mines were born in this way.

Numerous gem mines were established in 1890s, of which more than twenty are listed in the Mindat database.