Gemstones hunting
Gemstones hunting is like playing lottery
In order to access the mine of gemstones, someone spends hours to find just few semiprecious stones that are not worth
much. Or another person may reach to a pile of dirt.
If possible, bring experienced gem hunters along on your first trip. They'll know how to spot certain minerals, and their knowledge will go beyond what you can learn from a book. You could also learn more by visiting a local museum that features samples common to the region.
Different way to find it
For every gem in the world, there's a different way to find it. Australian sapphires are found in a certain region covered with alluvial deposits. They're strewn throughout a gravel layer beneath the topsoil. Gem hunters dig through the gravel layer and filter the rocks by putting them in a pan and shaking them in water.
There are tens of thousands of types of minerals in existence. And even though the varieties we would call gems are fewer, they're created under combinations of conditions so vast as to be nearly infinite. Pressure, heat, location, the presence of other minerals and impurities, water, and geologic forces exerted later all contribute to the hardness, clarity, crystalline structure and color of gems and minerals.
That's what makes them so rare
A lot of blood, sweat, and tears goes into locating rare gems, and we give it our all, and do so with respect and reverence for Mother Nature, and the environment, only dealing in "green" gem hunting, with local miners who make their living off the earth and its treasures.
So if you love gemstones as much as we do then you are left with only two options:
Travel to the ends of the earth and dig them up yourself, or purchase them rough, or cut and polished from a Jeweler.
However most Jewelers will not have custom gems of the type, style, cut, and size you may want. They will say they can order you one, and immediately start making calls to unnamed distributors in Asia or some other location, and may even come close to finding what you seek, usually at extravagant prices.
However, does that make the gem more valuable? Does it increase your passion for that stone?
Is it uniquely yours, or that special gift for a loved one?
No, it's a mass produced gemstone procured by faceless individuals on a global market who have no love or passion for YOUR GEM!
We don't think that is what you really want, do you?
When you want something special, something specific, something the corner Jeweler or the local Internet hack will never have....
Call our Gem Hunters at Colonial Gems