Buying Gemstones: Ruby Sapphire Zircon Tourmaline and Tanzanite

This is a buying guide for Ruby Sapphire Zircon Tourmaline and Tanzanite from Pailin Gemstones.

Good deals can be made when purchasing gems in Pailin but it is not always easy to get truthful information about the gems classification, origin and treatment. We can assist you to see through this murky market.   

We will give you advise about market prices and help with translation, most sellers don't speak foreign languages. 

Using Pailin Gemstones for scouting and expertise: 

We have an extensive knowledge of the market and its sellers so we will help you to see through this fog and deliver our expertise, bringing you around and helping you with translations and gems assessment. Language can be an issue and we will act as translator. 

We will present you with gems from suppliers, wholesalers and exporters that don't have a shop because they don't usually sell their batch in Pailin, or specialise in selling to the local stores. You will then be able to see gems that you wouldn't have found without us and to be the 1st in line to see the newest batch and choose the best gemstones before they leave town or are sold to shops. 

We have the possibility to arrange field excursions to the ruby and sapphire mines but that has to be reconfirmed on a case by case basis due to weather and sometimes legal conditions since most mines are illegal, something that we will lecture you about. 

Thanks to our established reputation we can arrange to borrow gemstones* from most stores to bring them to our office for a more thorough examination. 

Now available in our office: 

- x5 - x150 Trinocular Darkfield Microscope 
- Refractometer
- Dichroscope
- Dark Field Magnifier
- Hardness Tester
- Chelsea Filter

You will also have the possibility to use our safe box to keep your stones and valuables during the day. 

Our Rates: 

For this service Pailin Gemstones charges 30$ for half a day (4 hours), 50$ per day, or 2% (from the buyer) + 2% (from the seller) of your total purchase, whichever is the bigger amount.
These rates exclude eventual costs of transport and food, but full packages including accommodation can be pre-arranged (on-line deposit will be required). Border or airport pick-up / send-off can be arranged as well. 

We are well known by the sellers here for our continual integrity and have the established reputation of not hiding an agenda when genuinly trying to help all parties to conduct a constructive business relationship.