About the Rough for Wholesale

This post will give you information about the kind of gemstones to expect in the wholesale parcel.

Quality A, B, & C of Aquamarine, Tourmaline, Kunzite, Peridot & Topaz which I am selling are only sorted for clarity and nothing else. This means that they are not sorted for size or for color.

Topaz
So for example in a Kilogram of Topaz you may find pieces ranging from 5 carat to 50 carat in weight. Also there will be a range of colors from colorless to Sherry to Peach and Pink. Most Topaz from Katlang are small sparkling sherry colored crystals. Usually ranging from 1carat to 10carat. In the parcel is about 20% colorless, 10% pink, 30% good peachy color and rest is sherry color. The ratio does vary from parcel to parcel. A rough parcel of High Quality Topaz is 1kg in weight.

Aquamarine
Recently most aquamarine coming from Pakistan is very light blue and light sea green. Most of the rough is actually nice aquamarine crystals, with good terminations and physical structure. The parcel usually has about 30% colorless crystals, 20% blue, and rest very light blue. Unfortunately the bluer the crystals are there is more tendency of them being included or having translucent or milky patches in side the crystals. The sizes range from 5carats to 150 or more carat crystals. I personally wish they never break the crystals from the host rocks since they are much more prettier and fetch much more in specimen form.

It is amazing how many nice crystals are coming from Pakistan nowadays.

Parcel sizes are usually 1 kg or 2 kg.

Tourmaline
This one has become the most expensive stone after ruby in Pakistan. The prices of tourmaline and ruby have been fluctuating a lot in Pakistan. The prices I have listed on my blog are actually a few years old! I have no stock left in Pakistan right now. So, if you want some you will have to contact me first, I will check whether I can get some from the mines and also get some photos before I can proceed with the sale. From the day of the request from a customer, it will take 10 working days to find out if I can supply Tourmaline at the prices I have stated.

Parcel sizes of Tourmaline are half kilo to 1 kilo for wholesale. Colors range from light green to dark green, Light blue to dark blue, some pinks and bi colored crystals. Most of the rough are nice crystals weighing 3ct to 15ct in a parcel. 25% light green, 20% Green, 20% Dark green, 25% blue, 5% pink, 5% bi-color are rough %ages of the colors in a parcel.

Peridot
Peridot is obviously the best quality and color that originates from Pakistan. Like tourmaline prices of Peridot have also been going high. But for peridot it is a bit steady. Actually it is rarity of bigger pieces in the world that has made Peridot more expensive.Pakistan has both bigger pieces and good color. The colors of peridot in the parcel is 70% the same. Some darker and some lighter hues of green are found but the difference is not too big. Some very nice crystals are found in the rough usually. As a matter of fact most of the rough is crystals with terminations, which is quite rare in rest of the world. Rough weights are in the range of 5cts to 20cts.

Ruby
I have sent back all my Ruby back where it came from!!! I think ruby from Afghanistan and Kashmir are too expensive and can not compete with thai and burma rubies. Maybe when the ruby miners become a little less greedy then I will start dealing in it as well.

Emerald
Believe it or not this is the worlds most expensive gemstone of the world nowadays. And you thought it was Diamond! Some big merchants are taking lead from the diamond merchants and started hoarding already declining supply of Emerald. So what can we expect except sky rocketing prices. I am totally against hoarding and artificial price increases and for that reason I keep away as much as possible from Diamonds and Emeralds execpt for medium to low grade material. For these two gems don't hold your breath, because the hoarding will only stop when end of the world comes.