G. Pocobelli "Fine Gemstones Madagascar" is headquartered in Antananarivo, Madagascar. We deal in rough gemstones, cut and polished gems, and mineral specimens. We purchase our gemstones directly at the country’s most productive mining sites and cut and polish them by hand in our own workshop.

This website features a large selection of cut and polished gems currently available in Madagascar. We guarantee that all our gems are natural and untreated. Moreover, the quality of our hand cutting and polishing adheres to, and in most cases exceeds, international standards.

Our goal is to establish a long-term relationship with our customers and to serve as a point of reference for gemstones from Madagascar and to be the leading supplier of high-quality gems from Madagascar.

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About Us

Giuseppe Pocobelli “Fine Gemstones Madagascar” is a Malagasy based company dealing with a large variety of precious and semi-precious gemstones in Madagascar. We cut our gemstones in our factory in Antananarivo but we also deal in rough gemstones.


Giuseppe Pocobelli (the manager), a 33 year old half german-italian gemstone addict is living in Madagascar since 1998. After finishing his GIA (Graduate Gemologist Studies) in Vicenza at the time, he immediately came to Madagascar to explore the undiscovered treasures of this incredible island.

Since then he achieved so many experiences in searching, buying, cutting and selling gems in Madagascar. He ran through the island from the north to the south, from east to west, always looking for this special and extraordinary gemstone.

Since 2004 he settled down his company in  the capital of Madagascar, Antananarivo with a small but excellent cutting workshop and is providing the best gemstones that can be found in Madagascar to his longtime and loyal customers all over the world.

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Madagascar Gemstones


Madagascar produces a wide selection of the best gemstones available on the market today. It has become famous for the natural blue sapphires from the Fort Dauphin area in the far south of Madagascar. Before the first rush for these fine quality, natural and untreated blue sapphires Madagascar was known to produce tourmaline in many varieties such as rubellite, bi-color tourmaline, indicolite, pink tourmaline, blue tourmaline and huge slices of liddicoatite. Fine emeralds, aquamarine, morganite and even rare newly found Beryls like pezzottaite are found in Madagascar. Zircons, all kind of garnets like tsavorite, malaya, color change garnet, spessartite and demantoid are also mined in the geological treasure island Madagascar.
Then the famous ilakaka sapphire deposit has been discovered and suddenly a very wide range of gemstones were available from Madagascar. Natural pink sapphires, blue sapphires, yellow sapphires, purple sapphires and violet sapphires as well as fantastic padparadscha sapphires. Alexandrites, cat’s eyes, blue spinel, violet spinel and other rare stones like taafeite, jevenejevites are found in Ilakaka as well as some scare quality diamonds.

Of course Madagascar produces also a huge quantity of fine and natural rubies! The ruby from Vatomandry is the most famous because of its vivid pure red color which is called pigeons blood. A very fine ruby is found also in Andilamena area in the central part of Madagascar. I have seen fine, eyeclean red rubies with rough sizes of 27,5ct which has been cut into an exceptional, loupe clean oval stone of 16,18ct.
Of course the best Madagascar rubies can compete with all Burma ruby and the new ruby from Mozambique.
Until now only tanzanites, peridots and good quality diamonds are not mined in Madagascar but I’m sure that the future hides some fantastic surprises for the gemworld.

 
 

Our Locations

Headquarter
22, Rue Andrianary Ratianarivo,

AMPASAMADINIKA, 101 Antananarivo

Office phone No: +261 20 22 373 99

Cellphone No: +261 34 64 854 72

 

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