Year: 2015

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Stones out of Oregon
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Stones out of Oregon

This jewel in the heart of North America has gone through such unique tectonic activity over millennia that its distinctive geology has seen this state blessed with buried treasure that differs significantly from similar deposits around the world. Oregon is richly diverse in the variety of rock types that penetrate this ancient land; this has...

West Africa
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West Africa

We have made some recent discoveries that have changed the way we think about the coloured gemstone landscape. These most recent deposits of exquisite quality Tourmaline and Sapphire were found in and around Nigeria and we are also prospecting for other significant coloured gemstone deposits along the West of Africa. Africa has, over the past...

Madagascan Sphene from Ambilobe
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Madagascan Sphene from Ambilobe

Sphene is a Gemstone that I have come to love over my career, I still remember my first encounter with the Californian material, that Baja deposit is coloured by Chromium and as such has an incredible emerald green saturation with bags of fire in eye clean stones. This Californian material is extremely rare, in fact...