The investment potential of Tourmaline

In the international jewelry market, natural tourmaline has a kaleidoscopic color, is a very popular mid-range gems, its price can be comparable to high-grade precious stones, and the price of tourmaline continues to rise, more and more people realize the investment potential of Tourmaline. .

Among them, red tourmaline, blue tourmaline, and double-colored watermelon tourmaline are better known as "the rainbow fairy who falls into the world." As early as in the Qing Dynasty, because the Empress Dowager Ci loved tourmalines, especially pink tourmaline, resulting in Chinese people have to follow suit, suddenly tourmaline was very popular, and even the top officials of the Qing Dynasty one or two products also have this gem.

It is understood that to find a one-carat high-quality tourmaline, it is extremely difficult to look for tens of tons of ore. Most of the tourmaline on the market today is from Brazil, and the extraction of tourmaline in other places is relatively low. At the present time, the highest price for the tourmaline tourmaline is in the tourmaline, because its mining is not easy and the crystals are not large, and the price has remained high. The price of high-quality tourmaline is rising at a rate of 30% per year, especially for watermelon tourmaline. It is basically out of stock and out of stock, and the market value has doubled.

At present, in the international market, the price of gem-grade tourmaline is generally 20,000 US dollars a carat, the price of the domestic general tourmaline is more than 150 yuan per gram, and the rareness is even more than reach 500 yuan per gram. , has been far higher than the price of gold.

According to people in the industry, because the hardness of tourmaline is generally around 7.2, and the nature is relatively fragile, it is easy to produce cracks in the process of carving. Therefore, it has been very rare to form large collections of tourmaline since ancient times. Compared with other gemstone art collections, in the jewelry auction held in the past two years, in addition to the emerald still rising, the new jewels tourmaline began to gradually emerge, and the rising trend is very obvious. At present, the jewelry fairs that are relatively influential in China—Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Beijing, and Shanghai International Jewellery Show—continue to create new records for the price of single tourmaline. At the 2006 European International Jewellery Show, some international brands such as France's CLIO exhibited the best tourmaline, which was almost set on the day and was described by the press as "the biggest player in the jewelry exhibition."

It is reported that at the Guardian auction in November 2008, a rare blue raccoon cloud bat came into being, showing a light sky blue, crystal clear, bright and clean. On the side of the auction, the dragon button was sculpted, and its side was carved with bats, auspicious clouds, glossy ganoderma, and small dragons. It was quite fresh and lovely, and it was put down. It was valued at 15,000 to 25,000 yuan, and the result was sold at 44,000 yuan. At the Christie's Hong Kong auction, a pink tourmaline carving engraved with yellow tourmaline and green emerald monkeys was eventually sold for HK$471,000. At the auction of China's Guardian in June 2008, a celestial blue seal button with a length of 3.6 cm, a width of 2.5 cm, and a height of 4.5 cm was used due to the use of azure-colored tourmaline, so the color was bright and moist. Cleverly carved double ganoderma lucidum button, the two pheasants facing each other, the title of Ganoderma lucidum, vivid image. The printed surface is elliptical. The lot was sold at a value of RMB 176,000 which was about 10 times higher than the valuation. As a result, the investment potential of Tourmaline is impressive.