VA Blue Gems

VA Blue Gems Trading is a Southern African gemstone supplier. 

Located in the South African Lowveld, VA Blue Gems has been in the gemstone industry for the past 25 years. Our passion is unveiling the beauty of African gemstones. Our stones are mined locally or sourced from various Southern African countries and showcase the splendour of our wealth of stone. Our company vision is premised on responsible corporate citizenship: we want our business to survive and grow as the communities we are involved in survive and grow. We believe that our fate and that of the communities where we mine and source our stones are tied, and therefore do our best to improve those communities as we improve our business. 

Indulge your imagination! Try our tumbled stone as an accompaniment to your home and office décor

The variety of our natural colored tumbled stone will excite the avid home or garden decorator as well as stone collector.

All our finished gem stone products are made at our factory in Nelspruit, which provides employment to local residents who are involved in the tumbling, carving and working of the semi-precious stones. We have over the years equipped many local residents, including our employees, with the skill and expertise to work a wide variety of semi-precious stones.

Our company specializes in products and sets made of tumbled semi-precious stones, including over 40 different stone varieties. We have skilled artisans with experience in carving figurines, etching/scrimshaw on stone plates, hand-shaping of ornaments such as eggs, spheres and abstract shapes.

We also sell a large variety of tumbled stone sets and gift bags, ideal for avid collectors or just as beautiful gifts.

Part of our range includes beautiful specimens of a wide variety of stones. From large to small, we have it all! 

We tumble over 40 different varieties of stone. Whichever stone you want, chances are we have got it. Contact us with your requirements.

Enhance the look and color of your garden and home with our colored tumbled stones. Consider them for your next personal or corporate gift.  

Tumbled Stone

The stone tumbling is done at our factory in Nelspruit. Stones tumble differently depending on their wear patterns, some take more time than others, and they tumble to differing shapes depending on their wear pattern. The semi-precious stones we regularly tumble are:

Amethyst | Agate | Aventurine | Black Onyx | Bloodstone | Buddstone | Chalcedony | Chert | Citrine quartz | Dragon stone | Epidote | Jasper | Howlite | Mugglestone | Picture stone | Petrified wood | Prehnite | Quartz | Sodalite | Tiger’s eye | Unakite | Lepidolite |

Once tumbled, we sell these stones in loose bulk, boxed sets, or packed as gifts ideal for weddings or corporate events. Our tumbled stones can help give that special and unique touch to your home, office or garden

Sourcing our Stones

Peter van Nierkerk is quite the quintessential stone connoisseur, and is passionate about discovering and working all types of beautiful semi-precious stones.

With over 40 years experience mining and working semi-precious stones, Peter offers a wealth of invaluable insight into all types of semi-precious stones. He travels the length and breath of Southern Africa, to source the continent’s semi-precious stones, ensuring that we offer the customer a very wide variety of interesting semi-precious stones.

Peter is also passionate about furthering the empowerment of local communities where our semi-precious stones are sourced. In this regard, he continues to assist smaller scale miners with mining expertise, and material resources so that those communities can benefit from the stone resources within their locations.

Peter makes regular road trips to various remote locations where the most suitable semi-precious stones are located, and because some of the mines visited are in areas so remote, most times these trips almost amount to ‘stone hunting expeditions’.

Working with over 40 different semi-precious stones regularly means a lot of field trips need to be made to the various mines. Regular field trips are made to the desert areas of the NorthenCape and Southern Namibia, with occasional trips to Zambia, Zimbabwe, Malawi and Mozambique.

Dyed Howlite

Originally Howlite is predominantly white in color and complimented by grey veins which make the gemstone both a unique and rare find. However unlike other gemstones Howlite has the ability to absorb any color dye and maintain the dye for a lifetime regardless of weather conditions while maintaining its unique signature grey veins flowing through the stone.

Popular in today’s decorating practices is the use of all natural colors, white, pink, blue, Orange and several colors. These natural colors help promote a clean, airy feel for a home or office. We associate a soothing, restful atmosphere with these tones. Using these colors of nature as our background, we look for objects in nature to accent our rooms and so continue to promote that calming aura. Consider then the use of these decorating ideas with crystals and stones as an attractive and elegant complement for any room colored in natural tones.

DYED HOWLITE TO COMPLIMENT YOUR HOME

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Actual Stone Sizes

Bulk tumbled stones are available direct from our factory, in 5 different sizes, 3 different grades, and over 40 different stone types. Compare actual stone sizes using the stone images below

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