Mostof the people making money in gemstones are cutters or long time dealers with access to stones in their country of origin or in the worldwide cutting centers abroad (from the USA and UK). They have incredible knowledge and a marketing presence that brings them buyers. They have the cash to buy in bulk at great discounts to the prices you will be offered for one or a few pieces. If you are to compete with them, you may have to accept a lower rat of return and do a lot of looking to find the rare good deal. Such is not for the faint of heart.
Last I looked the Chinese refractometers were about $85-$100. You might want to get one with a yellow filter and a light source if it looks good to you, for convenience. Of course, you also need the polarizing filter that should come with it. Make sure to buy all this with a return privilege, but esp. the refractometer, because sometimes they come out of calibration, so you need to check it when you get it with a piece of quartz, which is pretty much invariant.
RoyJohn is spot on. I followed the same path starting about 15 years ago building military aircraft 40 hours a week and working weekends buying selling and learning about gems and jewelry on the weekend. After 15 years, getting my GIA GG degree and 1.4 million in weekend sales I still build military aircraft, but, that income is only about half what I earn selling gems and jewelry on the weekends online. Royjohn description of how I built my business and had the success I have is my story to a T. With my experience, education, effort, passion and dedication to the industry I am having my best year yet. My largest obstacle is misinformation, ignorance and lack of education regarding gems and jewelry from folks who think they know what they know, but, are very wrong. This misinformation comes from various sources, people and outlets but if anyone ever questions any information much can be verified or debunked by going to
GIA.EDU. Remember, jewelers are jewelers and Gemologists are Gemologists in some cases they are both but seldom is that the case. Some of the mostoytragous
My story of how I got into this stoney world is long so wont bore anyone with all that, but it started with stone chips to make dragon head organites to help raise money for a charity for a young lady needing life saving surgery.
Nutshell, I have been dancing around the edges for 3-4 years and simply got more and more interested in everything rocks and jewellery. I once threw a thunder egg over my shoulder, literally, while working remote Australia. Another chap coming behind me picked it up and informed what it was. In the last 8-12 months I have committed fully to creating a company, including purchasing stock etc, Im now in boots and all!
One day I will be investing in tools of this trade. Hopefully sooner rather that later, thank you for taking the time to share your knowledge Royjohn, and to every one else who shares their knowledge and thoughts on whatever topics. I have found this to be such a fantastic community and am so glad I bought myself a pro-membership for Xmas
Joining the big U.S. thieves in banking, health-care, insurance might be a lot easier. I heard of one guy making a killing operating his own old-fashioned hot dog stand.
I gather that TV selling still works? Would not know. My TV selling experience began and ended decades ago:
Something I would like to see with Ring of Wonder is for the Gems to scale with the VIP bonus (so instead of 200 gems, I would get 290, 45% more cuz of VIP level), and instead of Gem Keys give me Event Keys. Event Keys are great because they allow players to target the troops they want.
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Prospecting can be profitable, but there is more than one way to make money in the prospecting game beyond just finding gold. Leasing out prospective claims to mining companies is a subject I have written about several times in the ICMJ and also in my book on prospecting. I know people who have made big money doing this - a lot more than this check. Its a serious effort to find claims mining companies want. Right now, the market to lease them off is not good.
I am publishing this check with critical areas blanked out for security reasons - it would be a waste try to copy it. I also greatly altered the colors of the check, the company who issued it is out of business and I am guessing there is no significant money that is left in their account. So all things considered, I figure its safe to show. As one can see from the date, the issue was two years ago in 2015. I'll get my 2017 payment in a few weeks from a different company.
That was my goal too but I never really found anything that seemed commercial to me and they all played out when I was trying to prove them up. Do you have mining industry connections or did you just contact the companies directly with a proposition?
Its a hard rock property adjacent to an open pit mine that was worked in the 1980s and early 1990s. The biggest huge pieces of gold there are half a millimeter in size (and not many of them), so no placer. It was valuable mostly for its location. I did some assays, but its pretty low grade - but that's what it was - a low grade open pit mine. I think I staked it around 2004 when the price of gold was still low and no one was interested. A mining company acquired the adjoining property and they contacted me. A day's work of staking and a few hundred of filing fees - worked out to be a pretty good investment.
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