A Ruby trader inspects a gem stone at the ruby market in Phailin province December 28. The ruby mines of western Cambodia, which for years bankrolled the Khmer Rough guerrilla war, have lost their sparkle as known gem deposits run our and investment from crisis-hit Thailand dries up. Most of the big companies and their heavy equipment have pulled out and have been replaced by hundreds of poor Cambodian clawing through the mud, looking for their fortunes.