Origin and traceability
Mine to certificate, in four steps
Sri Lankan gem mining is small scale and hand dug: pits and tunnels worked by licensed teams, not mechanised strip mines. That is the honest version of the ethics story, and it happens to be the true one.
The journey of a stone
Fields where we buy rough, and the lapidary it travels to.
- 01 The fieldRough bought at Okkampitiya, Ratnapura and Elahera and the surrounding fields, often from the miners themselves, whom we know by name.
- 02 The lapidaryCut and polished in our own Colombo workshop, by our own cutters. Nothing leaves without being graded twice.
- 03 The certificateGIA, Gübelin, SSEF, GRS, AIGS or GIT, as the stone and the buyer warrant. Treatment status stated either way.
- 04 ExportShipped insured and documented, with the item ID carried through invoice and memo.
Why unheated matters
Most sapphire on the market is heated to improve colour and clarity. It is a legitimate, ancient practice, and it must be disclosed. Ceylon produces stones fine enough to sell unheated, and those are a different class of goods. We flag them as unheated, and we say so plainly when a stone is heated.
What we will not do
- Sell a treated stone as untreated, or hedge with "no indication".
- Describe an origin we cannot stand behind.
- Photograph a stone we do not hold.