He visits a Lapas Lazuli mine still being worked after thousands of years.
The oldest continuously operated mine in the world, and still being mined, is a lapis lazuli mine in Afghanistan. Lapis from that mine made its way to ancient India and ancient Egypt. Many other places too I am sure.
52 posted on 06/02/2018 1:55:03 PM PDT by TigersEye
(This is the age of the death of reason.)