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SPIRIT GEM QUIZ

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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Purple Sapphires can be hard to find in a true, clear purple without being more pink or blue. If you’ve been around for a while, you know my love of square cushions. I’ve created or adapted more than 30 versions (and counting!) of the square cushion outline because I love how it emulates the sparkle of a round, but gives some unique, classy simplicity.
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3.09ct - Sri Lanka
Registry #: 2002060
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Garnet! (Wait, shouldn’t this be a red stone?) I love how Garnet surprises - every color! It’s January’s birthstone and I think this light minty color from Tanzania is the most unexpected color of all. Garnet’s flexible recipe allows it to occur in such a huge spectrum of colors, though it is often the deep reds that are most well known.
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5.11ct - Tanzania
Registry #: 2008013
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This January is the first of many without our annual trip to Sri Lanka for Sapphire buying! So this is my ode to visiting the rough sapphire markets of Sri Lanka! This happens early early in the morning every weekday. Miners come to this one town from their rural mines in hopes of finding a buyer for their gems. Usually, the buyer is a Sri Lankan who is buying to facet the gems and resell them so it was VERY strange for them to find me there that day! 😅 It was a fabulous experience. Everything we bought there was for specimen/crystal (collector) quality. Did you know we also have a crystal collection in our inventory? Check it out at rogerdery.com. I love the natural outline of the gem! Proceeds from crystal collections also go to @thegemlegacy!
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Ginger and I are reflecting on 2020. It was strange, but beautiful in its own ways. It most definitely did give me more time to facet...and more time to get creative with my designs. Here’s 9 of my favorites, though it is hard to pick! More new ones being added to rogerdery.com this week, all with a percentage going directly back to @thegemlegacy. Hope you all have a marvelous new year!
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Peek into Roger’s Workshop! 🧐🤩 This is my Dop organizer! Dops are the metal sticks that hold the gem during faceting with fax. Attaching the wax is a very precise process since the gem needs to be properly aligned for the gem’s design to sparkle and shine!
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If you’ve been around a while, you know I love Blue Zircon! It’s more fiery than Diamond, facets like a dream, and looks fabulous in any lighting. I love visiting Cambodia, its only source, which is a little country on the Thai peninsula. All in all, not a downside! 🤩 You can explore all the Zircons in my collection at rogerdery.com and a portion of the proceeds of each one goes directly to @thegemlegacy.
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8.00ct - Cambodia
Registry #: 2004038
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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™.

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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SPIRIT GEM QUIZ

THE JOURNEY OF A GEMSTONE - MINE TO MARKET

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