Capricorn Gems undertakes the marketing, promotion, and selling of quality Central Queensland Gemstones. We work with a number of Central Queensland gemstone miners to bring their products to the international market.
Capricorn Gems Ethical Position
Our approach to ethical standards for the supply, cutting, and sales of our 4 gemstones from Central Queensland is based on our personal experiences and intimate knowledge and understanding of each of the elements associated with the business we are in.
Our business is with ONLY 4 types of gems and ONLY those gems that come from our part of the world. Moreover, we ONLY sell wholesale to the trade.
Firstly, my business partner Rod and I come from the Central Queensland area and have grown up with a detailed knowledge of what happens in each stage of the production of our gemstones. We know the miners intimately, we know their production methods. Rod is a shareholder in a Sapphire mining venture. State Government Mines Department regulations that control mining practices and reclamation of the land following the mining process are strictly monitored .
We know our gem cutters personally (Rod does most cutting of the Opal, Chrysoprase, and preforming of the Sapphire and Zircon) as Rod has also lived and worked in Thailand for many years and built relationships with the cutters over a period of 20+ years. We continuously monitor how they cut our goods and their compliance with local labor and health and safety regulations and expectations.
We don't prescribe what our interpretation of "ethical" might mean, as this word can be interpreted by each person as having different connotations. We leave that up to designer-makers to make their own decisions about whether this suits them in their business going forward. We encourage designer-makers to use any of our material as they see fit in their own story about sourcing and procurement of gems.
I hope this sheds some more light on the way we conduct our business and how we wish to present our product to the world.