AT LAST, GEMS TO BUY ONLINE!

Tuesday 27 January 2009

Dear friends and customers,

In our business, one often hears "FROM THE MINE TO YOUR RING!". At Swala Gem Traders, this phrase corresponds to reality. Our gems come from our own mines or are purchased from African small miners at our buying office in northern Tanzania. Many of the rough stones are then cut by our own cutters.

In the past, our business was focused on wholesale exports of rough stones and on retail sales to visitors to our shops in East Africa. But in keeping with the times, we have decided to sell a selection of cut gems online. So wherever you are, from Omaha to Osaka, you will be able to benefit from the most direct of all possible routes.

We carry a wide variety of gemstones ranging from splendid spinels, tsavorites, tanzanites fit for a king (or for a princess if you have no kings in your family) to the less rare and more affordable amethysts and red garnets (many of which are also splendid, for when it comes to gems, as in so much else, beauty resides in the eye of the beholder).

We have tried to be as accurate as possible in our descriptions and the pictures posted on our site but please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions or requests. Welcome, or "Karibu", as we say in Tanzania!

Mark and Eric SAUL - ICA Ambassador to Tanzania