Gems & Jewellery and Diamond Products

   

Sri Lanka , the ‘Paradise Island’ of the Indian Ocean is blessed with a range of geo-physical zones, rich precious mineral deposits and an intelligent and educated workforce.

Coloured gemstones mined in Sri Lanka vary from precious gemstones - to semi precious gemstones.

The “Blue Sapphire” has been declared as the “National Stone of Sri Lanka”.

 

Products

CORUNDUM - Blue, Yellow, Pink, White, Orange & Golden sapphires, star sapphires, rubies, star                                 rubies, padparadcha.

CHRYSOBERYL - Cat’s eye, alexandrite, alenandrite cat’s eye, chrysoberyl

SPINEL - Blue spinel, red spinel, purple spinel

TOPAZ - White topaz (which can be treated to make London Blue)

ZIRCON - Green zircon, yellow zircon, brown zircon, colourless zircon (Matara diamond)

GARNET - Rhodolite, hessonite, pyrope, almandine

BERYL - Aquamarine, heliodor

QUARTZ - Smoky quartz, white quartz, amethyst, quartz cat’s eye

TOURMALINE - Brown tourmaline, yellow tourmaline (green tourmaline, blue tourmaline)

FELDSPAR - Moonstone

Rare stones - Andalusite, kornerupine and a variety of agstes, sinhalite, lolite, indicolite, fibrolite, taaffelte, ekanite, star spinel

 Sri Lanka is currently positioned in the global market as a source of supply of high quality sapphires and as a supplier of cut and polished, free size and calibrated stones and more recently as a supplier of modern jewellery.

Availability of young talented jewellery designers, modern manufacturing facilities and well trained jewellery manufacturers.

Design development in all aspects is a continuous process in the Sri Lankan Jewellery Industry today and specialists conduct annual workshops and training sessions in order to improve and enhance the quality of jewellery.

The prestigious Sri Lanka Jewellery Design Award (organized by the Sri Lanka Export Development Board) affords professionals as well as young talented amateurs the opportunity to enter the international jewellery market.

The Government policy on the jewellery industry is sound & encouraging. A liberalized policy has been introduced on the import of raw materials, consumables, machinery and tools. Importing of rough gemstones is free of duty in order to encourage more rough stones to come into Sri Lanka for the lapidary industry.

A Gem and Jewellery Exchange offers potential jewellery buyers a wide range of services under one roof, including trading, a gem testing laboratory, gem certification, export services, freight and forwarding facilities, banking and insurance facilities, assaying & hallmarking facilities.

An Import Export Gem Office at the Cargo Village at the International Airport in Katunayake expedites the clearance of rough gemstones and export of cut & polished gems, jewellery and diamonds.

Sri Lanka’s membership of the ATA Carnet makes it easier to transfer jewellery to countries which are its members and allows dealers from member countries to bring samples and attend trade exhibitions.