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Do you know your Spirit Gem? Answer 10 questions and Roger Dery will tell you which gem best fits your personality!

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THE JOURNEY OF A GEMSTONE - MINE TO MARKET

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If you’ve been around a while, you know the Kitarini Primary School in Tanzania has long been a passion of our family! We’ve been supporting the breakfast and lunch program (which ensures attendance and increased test scores!) for several years and it is now under the supervision of @thegemlegacy! We have exciting news to share, thanks to our friends at @parlegems! Teacher housing has long been an issue, causing high teacher turnover rates and an overall lack of sufficient teachers for the growing number of students (now over 800!). Jonathan and Brecken of Parle are sponsoring a gift matching campaign up to $15,000 until Dec 14th! You can donate at the link in my bio or at gemlegacy.org/donate (make sure to note Parle so your gift is matched!). Let’s work together to make this tangible, powerful gift happen!
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It’s December: the month that hit jackpot on birthstones! 😆 Tanzanite holds a special place in my heart since Tanzania was one of my first and (remains a favorite) place to source gemstones (including Tanzanite!) and continue valued relationships and partnerships. Blue Zircon is a more recent love of mine, especially after visiting Cambodia to establish our supply chain and understand the remarkable mining situation there: rubber trees and zircon literally need the same thing to form so the land can be multi-purpose, making it so much more possible for miners to succeed. Wow - gemstones are more than just pretty! 😆
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Scroll to view some of my favorite available December birthstones on rogerdery.com. A portion of the sale of every gem is donated to @thegemlegacy.
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Happy Thanksgiving, friends! May your life be overflowing with gemstones!

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We’re headed off on a surprise vacation two weeks from today…can you guess where? It’s been quite a year so the countdown seems extra anticipated, like how this Moss Green Tourmaline made me think of our destination. 😬😎
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4.51ct - Nigeria
Registry #: 2003049
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I don’t talk enough about Topaz - it doesn’t frequently occur in the countries we travel to most often, but it’s my birthstone and it has so much going for it! We throw around the terms “Precious Topaz” and “Imperial Topaz”, but do you know where they come from?
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The predominately yellow to orange color, called Precious Topaz, was always plentiful and abundant. Mining in Russia in the 16th century began to produce Topaz with a red to pink hue and the Russian Tsars decreed that only the members of the Royal Family could wear “Imperial Topaz”. Today of course, we “non royals” are allied to adorn ourselves with the pink to red hues of Topaz, but the name stuck over all these centuries!
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3.64ct - Brazil
Registry #: 2111011
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Sharing one of my favorite Blue Sapphires from my 11th visit to Sri Lanka. Buying Blue Sapphires was the thing that first hooked me on being a gem dealer 40 years ago and it remains my favorite gem. This gem checks a lot of boxes for me:
☑️ Heated - while I’m a purist at heart, heated sapphires have an unparalleled purity of color that I love.
☑️ I love a good cushion.
☑️ That classic, medium velvety blue color that looks good in ANY light!
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Available at rogerdery.com where a portion of the proceeds of every gem is donated to @thegemlegacy.
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6.64ct - Sri Lanka
Registry #: 2109031
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Roger and Ginger Dery have been sharing their love for color and precious gemstones with the world since 1981, nearly 40 years. Roger is an award-winning precision faceter and is passionate about holistic sourcing, education, and giving back to mining communities. Together, they believe in the power of sharing the story behind the gems and leaving a legacy at the source of every gemstone. Every gemstone is in Roger’s hands, from Discovery to Destination.

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Gems with a Mission

Roger’s focus is dedicated to East Africa, working with miners to secure singularly beautiful colored gems and holistically impact their communities. When Roger chooses to work with a mining area, he is making a long-term commitment to invest in the miners, their families, and their futures. He seeks to meet them where they are, often providing for basic needs: food, water, and cooking oil. His charitable efforts in East Africa are funded by our partner organization, Gem Legacy.

Why? Because it’s right thing to do. Gems with a mission leave a legacy for generations.

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See Where Beauty Is Born

By meeting the gemstone first in its original habitat, Roger has an understanding of the gem’s entire story and can execute his work in a way that displays the gem’s intrinsic beauty to its greatest potential while being faithful to the inherent characteristics of the gem. It is a curated journey from discovery to destination™.

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Explore our ever changing inventory of sapphires, garnets, tourmalines, iolites and dozens of other one-of-a-kind gemstones that never leave Roger’s hands from the discovery at the source to the destination – you! Each gem is holistically sourced™ and precision faceted to be treasured for generations to come.

Beautiful gemstones await!

Leaving a Legacy

Learn about our ongoing campaign to ensure that every gemstone in our collection had a positive impact on every hand it passed through. Roger is dedicated to education, children, and entrepreneurship through Gem Legacy, the 501c3 nonprofit organization he founded in 2018. It is his goal support education, vocational training, and local economies in East African mining communities.

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