ORANGE GARNET (Hessonite, Spessartite)
These are orange color based garnet. Depending on their area of source, they come in shades of plain
orange (locally termed fanta) and reddish orange.
Prices range from $80 up to $250 per carat weight depending on size and quality.
RED GARNET (Rhodolite, Almandine, Pyrope)
These are garnet with a base or primary color red. Rhodolite is pinkish or purplish red, Almandine is deep red and Pyrope is brownish or orangish red. Prices range from $50 up to $150 per carat weight depending on size and quality.
COLOR CHANGE GARNET
These are garnet with a color changing effect. This happens through light exposure where white or
fluorescent light gives you its original color state, warm or incandescent light brings about the change
effect. The change could go from violet/purple to pink or red, from green to red or pink, from champagne
to orange red, from brown to pink or red.
Prices range from $150 up to $250 per carat weight depending on size and quality.
MALAYA GARNET
This a type of garnet with a mix composition of pyrope, almandine and spessartite. The known shades
are pinkish-orange, reddish-orange or yellowish orange hues. There is also a variety with a peach hue.
They are unique and rare.
Prices range from $150 up to $300 per carat weight depending on size and quality.
GREEN/GROSSULAR GARNET
This a green colored type of garnet. Commercially known as tsavorite, hues come in mint, medium
green, light green and chromium green.
Prices range from $250 up to $4000 per carat weight depending on size and quality.
MOONSTONE
This a stone from the feldspar family of gemstones with a moonlight-like glow. This stone is often
associated with the moon’s phases.
Prices range from $50 up to $500 per carat weight depending on size and quality.
SUNSTONE
This is another variety of feldspar. Colors can range from peach-pink to bright orange, light red and
rarely dark blue or ivory green.
Prices range from $50 up to $500 per carat weight depending on size and quality.
EMERALD
This is a green gem from the beryl mineral. They are colored by trace amounts of chromium or
sometimes vanadium with the former being dominant from the sources here.
Prices range from $1000 up to $50000 per carat weight depending on size and quality.
CITRINE
This a variety of quartz with pale yellow to brownish-orange.
Prices range from $50 up to $500 per carat weight depending on size and quality.
CHRYSOPRASE
This is a green nearly opaque to translucent variety of chalcedony. Color is usually of apple green but
can range from light to deep green, sometimes with yellow or brown undertones. It is at times referred
to African Jade in small business circles around here.
Prices range from $50 up to $300 per carat weight depending on size and quality.
IOLITE
This is a blue or blue-violet gemstone prized for its beauty and affordability. It is often mistaken for
sapphire or tanzanite due to the striking similarity. This hence makes it an affordable alternative to
them.
Prices range from $200 up to $10000 per carat weight depending on size and quality.
ZIRCON
This is a gemstone which comes in color varieties of yellow, green, brown, red, white, pink and blue.
Prices range from $200 up to $2500 per carat weight depending on size and quality.
YELLOW OPAL
This is also referred to as honey opal.
Prices range from $50 up to $300 per carat weight depending on size and quality.
AMETHYST
This is another variety of the mineral quartz. This gemstones comes in different shades of purple.
Prices range from $50 up to $500 per carat weight depending on size and quality.
TOPAZ
This is a gem type that generally comes in a wide array of colors. The ones sourced here are white,
blue and yellow/golden colors. Most of the Topaz get treated for color enhancement but we source
and process them in their natural state.
Prices range from $50 up to $300 per carat weight depending on size and quality.
PERIDOT
This a variety of the mineral olivine. It is known for its distinctive yellow-green to olive-green hues.
Prices range from $250 up to $1500 per carat weight depending on size and quality.
BERYL
This is the parent mineral for various gemstones like aquamarine (blue), morganite (pink) and emerald
(green). Beryl that tends to bear yellow and green hues as opposed to the traditional aforementioned
colors, commercially they get termed as yellow and green beryl. This happens even though they are
directly linked to either family gem members. This at most stems from Aquamarine sources.
Prices range from $100 up to $1000 per carat weight depending on size and quality.
SCAPOLITE
This is a group of minerals that comes in shades of honey-yellow, orange, violet, pink, brown, grey and
colorless.
Prices range from $50 up to $1000 per carat weight depending on size and quality.
SAPPHIRE
This is a variety of the mineral corundum known for its hardness and various colors including the iconic
blue.
Prices range from $300 up to $50000 per carat weight depending on size and quality.
SPINEL
This gemstone comes comes in a wide array of colors including colorless, green, purple, blue, pink and
red. Its red and pink hues are sometimes mistaken for ruby.
Prices range from $500 up to $100000 per carat weight depending on size and quality.
TANZANITE
This rare variety of the mineral zoisite is a blue to violet color gemstone exclusively found in the
Mererani hills of Tanzania, near Mount Kilimanjaro. The blue to violet is often enhanced by heat
treatment, where brown or green zoisite is heated to 600 degrees Celsius. It displays different colors
when viewed from different angles. Apart from the popular blue to violet colors, Tanzanite at times
more rarely comes in pink, peach and camouflage colors.
Prices range from $500 up to $5500 per carat weight depending on size and quality.
QUARTZ
This common, hard mineral comes in various forms and colors like clear, smoky, rose, amethyst and
many more.
Prices range from $50 up to $500 per carat weight depending on size and quality.
AQUAMARINE
This stone belongs to the beryl family. Color ranges from pale blue to light green. Most of the times
the shades that fall into the deeper side of green get classified as green beryl.
Prices range from $250 up to $5000 per carat weight depending on size and quality.
TOURMALINE
This gem is famous for its diverse colors including black, pink, red, green, blue, yellow, brown and
combinations thereof.
Prices range from $300 up to $5000 per carat weight depending on size and quality.
