I have three new stones tonight, all from the same side of the color wheel. As always, click on the link or picture to be taken to the page where the stone can be purchased and to view more details about.

This first one is a Ruby from Malawi Africa. These are seldom mined due to numerous land mines buried in the mining area left over from years of civil war. The stones from Malawi do have very nice color and crystal, and all with out any heating or treatments.



Next up is a Sapphire from Madagascar that is natural, with no heat. The color on this is a vivid pink/purple



This last stone is a very pretty Umbalite Garnet from Tanzania. I really like these stones, and buy them when ever I can get good color like this one.

Tags: Sapphire, Ruby, Umbalite Garnet

I missed the Sunday night posting, but I was planning to every now and then have one at a different time anyway. So here's the first mid week posting in a long time.

All the stones are rounds, and each one a little unique in it's own way.

This first one is a Chrome Green Tourmaline from Tanzania that is 3.37 ct. That's a pretty large size for Chrome Tourmaline.



Next I have a couple of Sapphires. This first blue stone is from Madagascar, and is a very pretty color, but it does have a few black inclusions in it.



The second sapphire is one from Winza Tanzania. You don't see much coming from Winza any more, but a few years ago when I bought this stone they were producing very nice and interesting sapphires. This stone has both red and blue sapphire in it, which mixes to produce purple, but with close examination you will see some very dark blue area's in it.



This last stone I just finished up tonight is a Rubellite Tourmaline from Nigeria. This is the last of that very nice parcel I bought a year ago.

Tags: Rubellite, Sapphire, Chrome Tourmaline

Buying gemstones online can be difficult, as you can't see the stone in person, nor ask as many questions in person as you can if you were face to face with the customer. Very few people call me to ask questions on the phone, so I was thinking maybe other forms of communication may be more convenant since you are shopping from your computer. Since I see more and more people accessing my site with a Mac and I use a Mac, and will start leaving iChat on when I am working, so if you want to chat about stones use your iChat and look to see if I'm available to chat. You can also call from your Mac using FaceTime.



My iChat name is: Precisiongem
My FaceTime is: gene@precisiongem.com

This will be my last posting for July. I have been holding all stones until Sunday night. This will be my new standard time for posting. I should have these Sunday night postings done sometime between 8 pm and 10 pm Eastern Standard time.

A few years ago I bought a parcel of about 10 Sapphires from Umba Tanzania. Here's one that's a light blue color. No heat or other treatments.



While looking through my rough, I came upon this bag of Peridot from Pakistan. Pakistan does produce the best colors in peridot. I figured while cutting the round sapphire, to cut the same design in one of the peridots, and here it is.



I cut the Brazilian Amethyst a while ago, I just never got around to photographing it.



Sometimes when working out a new design, I'll proof cut it in a lab created stone. These have been around for a while so I figured it's time to post them too. The lab created stones are physically and chemically the same as the natural stones, just grown in a lab. They can give you a very nice large look, for a very small price.

Two Rubies, and one Emerald. The Emerald material is from Chatham, which is known in the trade as the best lab grown crystals.

Tags: Sapphire, Amethyst, Peridot, Lab Created