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| John and Alain Darbellay have been in the coloured gemstone business since 1985. | |
| First, they travelled extensively throughout Pakistan in search of quality gem materials | |
| coming from Afghanistan and Pakistan. | |
| Then, since 1988, they have been involved in the gemstone business in Madagascar. | |
| John and Alain Darbellay are recognized as professionals in the gemstone field, and | |
| specialized in coloured gemstones. |
| We buy rough gemstones at the source and process our own material. | |
| This presents us with tremendous advantages, which we passes on to our customers. |
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| To offer the best in quality, selection, price |  |
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| integrity. | ||
| The love of beauty and practical experience | ||
| accumulated in producer countries permit | ||
| selecting the finest stones. | ||
| At the Mouawad Campus in Carlsbad, | ||
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| Looking for sapphires on the | ||||
| ground in the Andranondambo area. | ||||
| (South-Eastern Madagascar) | ||||
| It was two years before the rush. | ||||
| (The bed rock is a marble.) | ||||
| Go to Andranondambo Sapphires. | ||||
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| Chrome tourmaline is hard to find! »» | ||||
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| First, the spessartite garnet is appeared | ||||
| close to the spring of the Besafotra river. | ||||
| A trek of 25 kilometres among the | ||||
| mountains is needed to reach this spot. | ||||
| Go to Spessartite garnet. | ||||
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| The rubellite mine of Anjanabonoina in | |||
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| ( One of the best in the world ) »» | |||
| The pegmatite of Anjanabonoina | |||
| produced a large variety of rare stones | |||
| and many different colored tourmalines. | |||
| Go to Rubellite. | |||
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Ilakaka, one of the "safe deposits" of Madagascar. This big hole reaches more than twenty meters depth. This vast region located south-western Madagascar overflow with sapphires showing a stunning array of colors. 
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The small village of Ilakaka was isolated in a region made up of sandstone. Shortly afterwards the discovery of sapphires in the middle of 1998, it became one of the biggest town of Madagascar.
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| MORE ABOUT ILAKAKA ¦ CORUNDUM |
| John and Alain are passionate
by many arts : music, painting, sculpture, literature.
Their favourite hobbies are Ski, hang gliding, mountaineering, motocross and mountain bike, a little bit adrenaline makes life more spicy, they say. |
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| ( CH ) 1002 LAUSANNE | |||||||
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GEM SAFARI ¦ CONTACT US | Our cottages in Ilakaka. At the beginning of the sapphire rush. |  |
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