What is a Gemstone?
A rock crystal or organic material that is prized for its beauty, rarity and durability.
Where are Gemstones Found?
Gemstones are formed deep within the earth’s crust from volcanic activity, and are mined in Colombia, Brazil, Zambia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Madagascar, and Thailand.
Can they be imitated?
Imitation Gemstones are usually made of glass or plastics and are easily detected by their lower weight, density and streak.
Can they be mixed or diluted?
Natural Gemstones cannot be mixed or diluted because they melt at extremely high temperatures, unlike gold and silver jewellery that are highly contaminated.
Why are they valuable?
Natural gemstones are valuable because they are scarce, beautiful and last a lifetime, unlike gold & silver jewelry that become discoloured easily because of very high contamination.
Why should I buy them?
Natural gemstones increase in value year on year due to inflation, thereby allowing you to amass your wealth over time.
How can I benefit from having gemstone jewellery?
You benefit by investing in natural gemstone jewellery regardless of shape and size because their value automatically increases over time due to inflation, unlike gold and silver jewellery that are traded for or pawned for less than half the purchase price because they are highly diluted with zinc and copper.
Why gold & silver jewellery are not durable and oxidize easily?
Most of the gold and silver produced from the earth are used to manufacture electronic circuit boards, computer chips soar panels and a small portion is left to make up costume jewellery.
Why gold and sliver jewellery is so expensive?
Because the public is tricked into believing that it is high purity jewellery.
Why gold & silver jewellery is pawned at half the cost price ?
Because the merchants know the material is fake.