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The Emerald Company has been in collaboration since last year's Tucson Gem Show with master gem carver Glenn Lehrer, of Lehrer Designs, to create a limited edition collection of his famous hand carved Torus Rings set with fine Colombian Emeralds.  We provided a selection of special rounds and marquises in the .25ct to .65ct range from among our best stock to be paired with some of the latest masterpieces to come out of Glenn's studio.  The piece pictured below is indicative of the results:

The .36ct vivid green Muzo emerald set in platinum is nestled in a beautifully carved, oval aquamarine Torus Ring.  Glenn's intricate faceting radiates a brilliance that both accentuates and compliments this precious Colombian beauty.

Be sure to come by Booth #925 at the AGTA Gemfair to see other pieces from the collection featuring amethyst, garnet, blue topaz and other fine stones fashioned into Rings of a variety of forms and sizes, both pairs and individual stones, all with exceptional emerald settings.

It’s that time of year again; the world will soon be descending upon Tucson for the annual extravaganza that is The Tucson Gem and Mineral Show.  And The Emerald Company will be present!

No other single word or phrase is so inextricably linked with the mystique, history and current reality of Colombian emerald mining as the ubiquitous “Muzo”.   Given its evolution in the form of noun and adjective over centuries, and its sometimes-erroneous use in the promotion of Colombia’s world class emeralds, it seems a good idea to attempt to clarify what “Muzo” is, and what it isn’t.

Here we go again with an all star line up of speakers at the second world class emerald symposium in Bogota, Colombia.  Gemstone experts such as GIA's Andrew Lucas, Jean Claude Michelou, ICA director and Editor in Chief of Incolor Magazine and Muzo's Charles Burgess will be sharing their knowledge with us all.

We appreciate the synchronicity at play between emeralds being a symbol for hope and positive change on the red carpet, and our own efforts to provide gemstones transparently, sustainably, and more ethically. It seems entirely fitting that famous actresses such as Debra Messing, Zoë Kravitz and Catherine Zeta-Jones would choose to wear emeralds to signify the importance of positive change and growth in all workplaces.

Ron Ringsrud Founder & Board President of ClayHands is a good friend of ours and has been an inspiration to many in the Emerald trade business.  We are happy to be working with Ron and his team, we want to make sure our clients know that with every purchase from The Emerald Company we donate to the growth of ClayHands and the emerald mining communities.

In 1971 Pablo Neruda won the Nobel Prize for poetry. He also visited Colombia that same year where he wrote this untitled poem in praise of the magnificent emeralds he encountered. We wanted to share one of our favorite poems about emeralds with you.  

The Emerald Company is a supplier of fine Colombian Emeralds, with involvement at each stage of the supply chain. The founders recognized important movement in the global gemstone market towards colored gemstones over the past decade which was not only driven by a higher demand from Arab countries, India and China, but...

In recent years Ethiopia has gained considerable attention in the gem trade for large amounts of high-quality opal from an area near Wegel Tena (B. Rondeau et al., 2010, “Play-of-color opal from Wegel Tena, Wollo Province, Ethiopia,” Summer 2010 G&G, pp. 90–105). Apart from opal, emeralds have been sporadically min...

When the Hispanics burst into the Andean plateau, properly in what are now the departments of Cundinamarca and Boyacá they were dazzled by the riches of the native caciques, and were ecstatic with the emeralds that some of them displayed. Their ambition had no limits when they learned that in the region of the muzos ruled a beautiful cacica named Fura-Tena, whose throne was adorned with the most beautiful emeralds;