Paraiba tourmaline price grew over 20%

Higher grades may have increased by over 30%

Paraiba tourmaline, the neon glowing greenish blue color tourmaline, and the rarest member of the tourmaline family of gems, has experienced a tremendous rise in prices, especially those sourced in Brazil. If only a few years ago, just mentioning that your gem Paraiba was of African origin might have killed the deal, today African Paraibas are much better received and are in great demand.

Analyzing our big data system of actual transactions and asking prices of Paraiba gems, indicates that in the last couple of years the gem market has experienced a sharp rise in the demand and the prices of Paraibas.                                                                                                         Low-quality Paraibas have risen by at least 20% while higher grades may have increased by over 30%.                                                                                                                                                             Brazilian Paraibas continue to maintain almost double the value over the price of the same quality African Paraibas. The craziest thing that is happening now, is that some pink glowing copper manganese tourmalines mined in Mozambique are claiming that they are pink Paraiba!

We had thought that nobody in his right mind would accept that Paraiba could be pink until we started receiving in our Gemewizard GWLAB laboratory, beautiful pink color copper and manganese bearing tourmalines, which we were asked by their owners if they could be graded as Pink Paraiba!

After tedious discussions, our team experts could not reach a final decision, so they have decided for now, to add a note to the grading report, ‘Some experts may call these gems ‘copper-bearing pink tourmaline’ while others may describe them as Paraiba pink tourmaline’ analyses Menahem Sevdermish, F.G.A.