About Us, Madagascar Gems

At Madagascar Gems rough gem stone sales to the trade is our business. We take pride in supplying top grade facet rough to you. That is how we all make a living.

We seem to be the only company selling quantities of Madagascar facet rough on the internet... of any quality.

Why? Because that is the primary market niche our customers require of us. Yes, we have requests to sell faceted gems as well, and we do a little of that... but we focus on supplying rough gem stones to you, the rough reseller or the small lapidary house. 

Madagascar Gems is operated by two families, one in Madagascar, and one in the USA (Arizona).

This collaboration offers you, our rough gem stone customers, the advantages of both worlds.

Benefit To Madagascar

The people of Madagascar reserves the privilege of operating gem mines (and other development of natural resources) substantially to its own citizens.

In Madagascar, we need a better market for the gem rough we wrest from the earth through great effort. We need to reach you, the buyer of 100 grams... or even smaller amounts of quality rough.

Madagascar Gems' operations in Madagascar allow us to conduct our own mining activities, and to travel the bush country to buy the production of other small mines. We have exclusive agreements to buy the entire production of some small mines.

We travel the roads and jungle footpaths when they will lead us to find a mine. In the desert, we journey cross-country on a motor bike or 4x4 vehicle. Each year we travel thousands of kilometers by motor bike, and hundreds of kilometers by foot. We camp out in our travels, or possibly stay in a village "hotel" like the one pictured below. Big-city accommodations and stores are rarely available.

This ability to aggregate the production of the small mines allows us to supply larger quantities of some rough gem stones to our customers, and much needed, more frequent paydays to our neighbors.

Quality rough gem stone is difficult to find and recover. A mining family or village may often work for an entire month to produce a single parcel.

The rough is sold to us to buy food... or possibly to purchase zebus (cattle kept for milk, meat, and work) or other necessities.

Pricing

Is it customary to discuss pricing strategy with potential customers? In theory it is not.

However, we develop close working cooperation with our customers and miners, and the pricing strategy is important for all to understand. The sum of the strategy is... A Little Less.

The peoples of Madagascar must benefit from the sale of the non-renewable natural resources. It is not moral to export Madagascar's wealth without benefiting the people... so we must pay the people a fair price. 

In exchange for selling to us for A Little Less, we offer them a steady market for quality rough, and on occasion, financial assistance.

You pay A Little Less when you buy rough from us. To gain and maintain customers we must supply quality goods and our tariff must be A Little Less than suppliers in other countries.

To accomplish these ends, Madagascar Gems must benefit A Little Less on each sale. We expect to make it up on your repeat business.

About Our Gem Rough

  At Madagascar Gems we make a careful selection of the gem rough offered for sale through our website.

Yes, we buy the mine-run production of many of the family-operated gem mines we deal with, but lower quality rough is sold off to others, offered as faceting training class material, or cabochon material.

Each parcel that we buy  (or a large representative sample) is subjected to examination before we offer it to our very important customers around the world.

Our rough gem stone material is observed in all directions, and under different lighting conditions, both natural light and artificial light sources.

This first careful observation is the key to maintaining our reputation... Madagascar Gems is a quality supplier.

At Madagascar Gems we look closely at the features that will confirm the quality of the rough gemstone. We shun lower quality material and encourage the miners to locate a  ground that yields clean, facet quality gems.

By Madagascar government regulation, we must repatriate the value of exported rough within three months (bring the money home from our USA office). This does not leave us much time to market our rough in the USA and around the world. 

Because of this regulation, we solicit orders for rough and then travel the bush to source the rough for you. We especially favor standing monthly orders. Twenty grams per month of this, and a hundred grams of that, and ten grams of that other one, keeps us going.

At Madagascar Gems we take pride in supplying high grade facet rough. In turn, our customers can take pride in the many profitable gems they facet from our rough gem stone parcels and sell to the jewelry industry or collectors.

Our Affiliates

Madagascar Gems is affiliated with a few select companies in an advertising sense... but not an ownership sense. 

We are pleased to recommend these companies to you for consideration.

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Question and Answers

Prices can vary due to weather, supply, size, and other factors. The "

Is all of the rough you sell mined in Madagascar?

 Yes... so far. We have considered reaching out to gem mining acquaintances in other countries for rough that our customers need and we cannot source in Madagascar.

If we ever do this, the material listing will clearly announce the country of origin.

Why is the wording on the site so formal, yet funny words and terms creep in?

Regarding the first portion of this question... we avoid using contractions and words that may not translate accurately by translation software. We deal with people speaking different languages, and depend on these translators.

Now for the funny part... because we are funny - in several ways:

	Our operations partner (Gilbert) speaks French and lives in Madagascar, where Malagasy is spoken.
	Our marketing partner (Fred) speaks English and lives in Arizona.
	We deal in the worlds of gemstones and mining.

All of these environments influence the words we use.

Why do you allow Google advertising on your website?

Customers can then easily see our price and service advantages. By following the ad links customers will be able to compare our prices for quality gem rough.

We also affiliate with a select few other companies as shown above, and do highly recommend their product/service.

We expect the advertising on this site to pay for the operation and maintenance of this site, thus allowing our customers to pay only for the actual gem rough.