by Kelvin | Sep 14, 2026 | tanzanite-jewelry
Here's the question we get asked most at the jewellery counter: why bother with tanzanite gem tours at all, when you could just buy the finished ring and skip the half-day out to Merelani? It's a fair question. The honest answer is that a tour and a shop purchase...
by Kelvin | Aug 29, 2026 | tanzanite-jewelry
A customer in our Arusha gallery held up a ring last month and asked me straight out: “Is this actually rarer than a diamond, or is that just something you tell buyers?” I get asked some version of that most weeks. The answer is yes, and it’s not a...
by Kelvin | Aug 14, 2026 | tanzanite-jewelry
Most people who come on one of our gem tours have already bought tanzanite before — a ring, maybe a pendant picked up on a previous trip. What actually gets them, every time, is standing on the ground where it all came from and realising just how small the area is. A...
by Kelvin | Aug 10, 2026 | tanzanite-jewelry
I’ve watched a fair few proposals happen in our gallery, and the ones with tanzanite always play out the same way. The partner tilts the ring under the light, sees it shift from blue to violet and back again, and there’s this pause — a proper one, not a...
by Kelvin | Jul 28, 2026 | tanzanite-jewelry
A woman in our shop last month held two nearly identical rings side by side, unable to tell which one cost three times more than the other. The difference wasn’t obvious to an untrained eye, but it mattered enormously to her wallet. That’s the real...
by Kelvin | Jul 17, 2026 | tanzanite-jewelry
Tanzanite only comes from one place on earth, a patch of land roughly the size of a small town near Mount Kilimanjaro in northern Tanzania. Once the deposit there runs out, that’s it, there won’t be more. That single fact does more to explain the price and...
