Meetiyagoda in Sri Lanka houses the Moonstone Mine which is a perfect place for exploring the beauty of the gems and the way of mining them in the ancient way. Meetiyagoda is a town in the southern part of the island that is famous for its mineral deposits and more specially Moonstones, which are nothing but a kind of feldspar that has a beautiful blue fluorescence known as adularescence. This phenomenon is what makes the Sri Lankan moonstone unique as the stones have characteristic blue hue under normal light, although from other parts of the world the moonstones may not.