About Us

Gem Exports Pty. Ltd. – Established in 1966 as a joint venture between one Black Opal exporter, one exporter of rough White Opal and me as exporter of rough Sapphires.

Consolidating what at the time was the most valuable Australian Gemstones within the one company, proved very successful and in particular as I managed to establish a market in Thailand for small and low-grade rough Sapphires which resulted in a gold-rush type boom on the Australian Sapphire fields.

This diversity of Australian gemstones is what makes Gem Exports stand out from other exporters as it doesn't specialize and deal in just one single type of Australian gemstone, but has also expanded into Chrysoprase and the very rare Australian Turquoise (“TurqOZ”) and as such is now a one-stop-shop for all of Australia’s major gemstones (Diamonds and Pearls excluded).

Gem Exports now carry:  *Sapphires  *Lightning Ridge Black Opal  *South Australian White and Crystal Opal  *Queensland Boulder Opal  *Opal Triplets  *Opal Doublets  *Treated Matrix  *Turquoise  *Chrysoprase and in addition some imported gemstones like:  *Pink Sapphires  *Rubies  *Ceylon Sapphires  *Taiwanese Coral and various other gemstones.

Since 1987 Gem Exports has, through an associate company, been supplying the Australian jewellery industry, including designers, manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers.