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Well, the tourmaline, at the moment,
it is a very popular stone.
I believe it is the most sought after stone on the market.
Everybody wants tourmaline in all color.
That's what I like in tourmaline, because tourmaline,
if there is a lot of red in the market, we have the green.
If there's a lot of green, we have the blue.
So we can do this.
But at the moment, we have an agreement
with a company called KGK.
And we sell all the rough rubellite to them,
and they cut the stone and they market the stone, the rubellite
They also sell to the market.
They also make the jewelry and sell the jewelry with the red.
The green tourmaline and the blue, we cut ourself
and we market ourself, the green and the blue.
The low-grade tourmaline, we all sell to the China market.
They do beads.
They do carvings.
They do a lot of stuff with the low-grade.
And the low-grade has a lot of color, bicolor, blue, red,
the green Yeah, three color-- even three color.
Today the majority of the market is the Chinese.
So the Chinese are really buying the majority of our production,
even rough, or even cut stones.
Of course we market the stones all over the world,
but they are the majority, the Chinese.
Overhaul.
All tourmalines, the price, they have been crazy,
all over years.
If I think about the price, I know
I sold the stone five years ago, I didn't sell it,
I gave my stones to them.
The markets, of course, and I hope it keeps like this,
but everything depends of the end consumer.
But I believe in the price of tourmaline
is going to keep it up.
Well, the low-grade, I hardly could sell a low-grade
for $1,000 per kilo.
Today, usually at least-- today I easily sell $6,000-$7,000 per
kilo.
For the better tourmaline, there's also the same.
I mean, I used to sell for $20 per gram, I sell for $100.
The green tourmaline, for clean material,
I think it's-- I sold around $10 to $20, I sell for $150 today.
I think the low-grade material was the most increase -
they increased more price.
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