There are also long-term value issues: If you had $5000 to spend on a gem that would retain its value, would you buy a 1 ct diamond or a 1 ct space-gem?
While the hard-core collector may say space-gem, everyone else in the world would say diamond. The diamond market is well established and if you had to resell or pawn a diamond, it would hold most of its value (normally around 60-80% unless you're desperate). Try taking a space-gem to a pawn shop, they'll look at you funny and give you $20; because to them and the rest of the world, peridot is peridot. I'm not knocking olivine space-gems, the problem is you need to establish the market and demand before you can attain the desired price. -Yinan On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 11:17 PM, Yinan Wang <veom...@gmail.com> wrote: > It's all in how you market it. > > With the big gemstones, they've been bought, sold, and used as a > commodity for literally hundreds and probably thousands of years. > > Diamonds didn't get their current popularity/price until DeBeers > started their major marketing campaigns. > > Just because something is rare doesn't mean its worth more than a > diamond of similar size and quality: an object is only worth what > someone is willing to pay for it. > > Here are some example of the rarest gemstones on earth: > http://www.curiousnotions.com/gemstones/ > They're all extremely rare but only have a specialty market, which is > why most stay under $2000 per carat for the finest piece. > > Another example of rare gemstone is Bixbite from utah. It's a red > beryl. Only 60 lbs of it have ever been mined (compared that to the > ammount of pallasite out there), and they're very beautiful. The > largest perfect gem of it ever cut weighs only about 3 cts. Still, > most cut pieces are still only worth about $1000-$2000 per carat for > anything under 1 ct. > > At the moment, space peridots are a specialty market. > > -Yinan > > > On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 10:30 PM, Count Deiro <countde...@earthlink.net> > wrote: >> Hello All, >> >> When you start pulling a ton of Brenham out of the ground don't expect to >> find, or quickly make, a market for it. Once the relatively small group of >> meteorite collectors (I'll bet there isn't five hundred that would but a >> pallasite in the world) get their specimens you will still have a massive >> amount left. >> >> Might sound like a good idea to destroy the meteorite to smelt out the >> peridot, but most of it, although rare, is badly shocked, irregularly shaped >> and included. Cosmic peridot will never touch the appeal of the terrestial >> big four...diamond, ruby, emerald and sapphire. A high end market for gem >> quality peridot doesn't exist and it would take years to move what was cut >> and polished. And at a loss. Per esempio...It's my wife's birthstone >> (August) and I was able to purcase a near flawless, brilliant cut, Mexican >> example of nearly 20 carats for less than a thousand dollars mounted in 18kt >> gold. >> >> Steve has a tough row to hoe.... >> >> Regards to all, >> >> Count Deiro >> IMCA 3536 MetSoc >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >>>From: Darren Garrison <cyna...@charter.net> >>>Sent: Feb 20, 2011 7:23 PM >>>To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com >>>Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] The Trials and Tribulations in Dealing with >>> Landowners >>> >>>On Sun, 20 Feb 2011 22:00:28 -0500, you wrote: >>> >>> >>>>It is my understanding that they are considerably more rare than diamonds >>>>yet are priced well below the cost of an equivalent flawless diamond. >>> >>>http://www.arizona-peridot.com/Peridot_Prices.html >>>______________________________________________ >>>Visit the Archives at >>>http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html >>>Meteorite-list mailing list >>>Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com >>>http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list >> >> ______________________________________________ >> Visit the Archives at >> http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html >> Meteorite-list mailing list >> Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com >> http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list >> > ______________________________________________ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
