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  Gems and Jewellery Industry in India As of January 2021, India’s gold and diamond trade contributed 7.5% to India’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and 14% to India’s total merchandise exports. The gem and jewellery sector is likely to employ 8.23 million persons by 2022, from 5 million in 2020. Jaipur, a land with a vast cultural heritage and a spirited lifestyle, is also a very important city in the India gems and jewelry industry. The Jewelry Stores industry, which sells jewelry, timepieces and sterling and plated silverware, is composed of traditional brick-and-mortar shops and does not include internet, mail-order or direct-sale retailers. India is also home to around 450,000 goldsmiths, 100,000 gold jewellers along with 6,000 diamond process

Metal and Mining India was the third largest producer of coal and fourth largest producer of iron ore in FY20. Chile is the clear leader among the world's largest copper producing countries, with 5.7 million tonnes of the metal mined in 2020.   The metals and mining sector is the industry dedicated to the location and extraction of metal and mineral reserves around the world. Metals include precious metals such as gold, platinum, and silver while industrial metals include steel, copper, and aluminum.   The most abundant rare earth elements are cerium, yttrium, lanthanum and neodymium. They have average crustal abundances that are similar to commonly used industrial metals such as chromium,

World MAP In the 1891 International Geographical Congress established specifications for the scale map of the world, and World Wars 1 and 2 and brought more progress. The sixth-century tablet known as Imago mundi shows Babylon on the Euphrates , with cities on the circular land mass, surrounded by a river.  According to the Greek scholars developed a spherical Earth theory using astronomical observations, and in 350 B.C.E. Aristotle produced argument to justify this practice.  In the first century C.E., Ptolemy, an astronomer and mathematician, developed a reference - line principle. His Guide to Geography list 8000 locations with their approximate latitudes and longitudes. However he underestimate the size of the Earth. Few of the Maps and Images was found on Turkey, India and Egyptian land with the age of 8500 B.C.E, 8000 B.C.E. and 6500 B.C.E.