The highest Quality Gems

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Table of Contents

About Hedgestone 4

Hedgestone Products 5

Product Cost 6

Gemstone Appraisals 7

Mine Direct 7

Wholesale Accounts 8

Wholesale Manifest 10

Gemstone Grading 12

Contact Information 15

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About Hedgestone

HedgeStone is a mine direct buyer and seller of precious gemstones with a

focus on Diamonds, Emeralds, and Sapphires.

Through its partnerships and affiliations with mine owners, and government
sources on a global scale, HedgeStone has been able to secure contracts
providing it with an on-going supply of both rough and polished gemstones
at a significant market advantage.

HedgeStone markets to all levels of distribution from rough dealers to

the end consumer with a significant price advantage over current
distribution sources. By dealing direct from the source and
controlling all aspects of the supply and production
process, HedgeStone is afforded a significant
supply and price advantage.

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Hedgestone Products

Diamond: HedgeStone has mine direct and government relationships

for supply in a number of African countries including Sierra Leone, DRC,
Republic of Congo, and Guinea. HedgeStone works with the mines
directly for the supply of mine-rough in grades suitable from industrial to
gem and investment grade product.

Emerald: HedgeStone sources emeralds from 3 primary mining

sources: Brazil, Zambia, and Colombia, with a strong emphasis on
Colombian product and mine relationships. HedgeStone has full time
representation in Colombia working with the mines for a consistent
supply of rough and semi cut product.

Sapphire: HedgeStone primarily deals with African and Ceylon

sources for sapphire rough with cutting facilities in Sri Lanka and to a
lesser degree in Madagascar. Sapphire is sorted for distribution in higher
quality ranges only with a focus on royal blue variants in color.
increasing dramatically towards the consumer market.

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Product Cost

Traditionally there are up to 15 middlemen in the gem

distribution process, each with a mark-up of between 15-
150%. HedgeStone deals with source of supply and essentially
manufactures the gems through the cutting, polishing, and
finishing process. This allows HedgeStone to retain the
margins and stored value associated with bypassing the entire
distribution channel.

The mine direct concept allows HedgeStone the luxury of

marketing a variable price structure to all levels in the supply
channel, with margins increasing dramatically towards the
consumer market.

Direct from the mine...

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Gemstone Appraisals

The strength of the Retail program and its popularity resides in the client receiving a tremendous third
party value associated value with their purchase thus giving them the realization that they are enhancing
their net worth through the purchase of these Mine Direct gems.

The key to this is ensuring 100% of the time that the client is receiving greater value than their purchase
expenditure, hence the accredited appraisal. It is key for the purposes of the program, the appraisal be
completely isolated from the sales channel and based on a 3rd party accredited institutions findings.

To this end, HedgeStone uses only accredited 3rd party appraisers and industry leaders for the gem
valuation ( EGL, IGI, Gemscan, etc..) This ensures the integrity of the program is maintained and clients
will always, and without question, receive value in excess of what they paid even at the retail level.

Mine Direct

HedgeStones business model is often referred to as the Mine Direct Program and involves
working with mines directly for acquisition, processing, and distribution of rough product to
finished gem grade material

HedgeStone has relationships globally to produce rough and finished product, and the value is
transferred through our company direct to the consumer. This ensures we consistently supply a
much higher grade and value of product and at a far lower price than is traditionally seen in the
market.

HedgeStone products consists of primarily quality Emerald and Sapphire gemstones. HedgeStone
is also able to supply product as one off, parcel lots, and of virtually any grade quality desired by
the consumer.

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Setting up a Wholesale Account

Go to: http://www.hedgestone.net/store

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How to Register

Setting up for the first time is easy. These are the steps you need to complete in order
to purchase gemstones at Mine Direct wholesale prices.

Step 1:
Open your web browser and type in http://www.hedgestone.net/store

Step 2:
Click on My Account and register an account.

Step 3:
After you successfully register click the following option and fill out your application.

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Creating a Manifest

Go to: http://www.hedgestone.net/store

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How to Create a Manifest

Hedgestone can automatically create manifests in Excel and PDF formats.

Step 1:
Open your web browser and type in http://www.hedgestone.net/store

Step 2:
On the homepage click Search

Step 3:
Then choose a category

Step 4:
On the search page click on Show Results

Step 5:
Choose the type of manifest to create.

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All of our gemstones are photographed under proper

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Gemstone Grading System

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Value - Quality - Trust

Contact us today
For additional information about HedgeStone contact us below:

HedgeStone International Inc.

www.hedgestone.net info@hedgestone.net Tel: 905-771-8520

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Tel: (905) 771-8520 - Fax: (905) 771-0838

E-mail: info@hedgestone.net

www.hedgestone.net
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