The complete Sri Lankan gems and jewelry business employs roughly 650, 000 individuals together with miners, cutters, polishers, sellers, jewelry designers, producers, craftsmen, entrepreneurs, gemmologists and gross sales folks.
The gems business employs round 325,000 miners, 72,000 gem cutters and 895 gem exporters. Strategies of gem chopping and sprucing comprise each the normal technique of hand chopping and the digital strategies of state-of-the-art lapidaries.
Right this moment Sri Lanka is taken into account because the quickest creating gem chopping and ending centre on the earth, producing stones that meet the very best worldwide requirements. The primary worldwide markets for the Sri Lankan gems are United States, Japan, Hong Kong, France, Germany, Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand, Switzerland and the UK.
Right this moment roughly 25,000 women and men are employed in Sri Lanka’s jewelry manufacturing business. Conventional jewelry worn by Sri Lankans is hand made and intricately designed. Nonetheless to fulfill the calls for of the worldwide market, easy and modern designs have been launched. Main worldwide consumers of Sri Lankan jewelry are United States, Germany, United Kingdom, Japan and Canada.
Licence Issued by the Nationwide gems and Jewelry authority (NGJA) Sri Lanka
In response to the NGJA act, it’s punishable offence to conduct following actions with no legitimate licence issued by the NGJA.
1. Gem mining
2. Gem chopping and sprucing
3. Gem buying and selling
4. Gem auctions
The regional places of work of the NGJA functioning in Ratnapura, Eheliyagoda, Naula, Monaragala, Matara and Colombo regulate the above actions in respective areas. Other than these, enforcement places of work are maintained at Nivitigala, Pelmadulla, Embilipitiya, Lunugala, Akuresse, Rakwana, Horana and Norwood.
Gem Testing Laboratory
The gem testing laboratory of NGJA which was established in 1972 was entrusted with the duty of issuing gem testing studies, thereby gaining confidence and integrity in worldwide gem commerce. Presently the laboratory is staffed by international educated gemmologists who’ve obtained internationally accepted skilled {qualifications}.
The laboratory supplies a free gem testing service to foreigners and points gem testing studies at a traditional price of about 860 Sri Lankan rupees. Along with this, a gemstone memo is issued specifying the authenticity of the gemstone at the price of about 300 Sri Lankan rupees. These companies are supplied at laboratories functioning on the NGJA Colombo workplace. Head workplace at Ratnapura. Preparations are made to situation a gem testing report incorporating a picture of the gemstone at the price of almost 1,800 rupees. A free gem testing service is supplied for foreigners on the NGJA laboratory within the gem trade positioned on the world commerce centre, Colombo and Ratnapura.
