Greebolo's Gemstone Exchange

Greebolo’s Gemstone Exchange
Run by the Greebolo brothers: Phil and Caius. These two are cousins to the Patriarch of House Luxlor and thus use the trade houses’ vast influence and network to conduct their shipping and trade overseas.

Describing Phil and Caius:  Phil is a tall dark haired human male with a large black moustache. He is a numbers guy and rarely speaks, preferring to keep the ledgers and accounts for the business. Caius is the pitchman, a real wheeler-dealer. He is also tall and dark haired human male, but dyes his hair various shades lighter as is the fashion in Averland. He wears a great deal of expensive jewelry and fine clothes. Caius has also just begun an extension of the business to also sell artifacts and other treasures. He figures that the Exchange already has people combing the the jungle for wealth and the auction is known to be secure so why not expand into the antiquities trade.

The Gemstone Exchange runs by purchasing valuable stones brought in by prospectors and sending buyers upriver to trade with larger operations directly. Here they are sorted, refined and cut and polished to prepare for shipment to the colonial powers. The exchange works as a middle man for the jewelers and various gemstone collectors. The buyer purchases the product from the mine owner directly on site, and arranges for the transportation with the barge company. Once the product arrives by barge it is transported to the exchange where it is processed. Buyers from major jewelers and brokers visit the exchange for its monthly auction. Any items not sold at auction are shipped by the exchange to the colonial countries to brokers that the brothers know. These brokers will sell the product (but at a price less than the auctions).

Caius has visited every mine he buys from and has seen some of the brutal working conditions and practices the mine owners follow. He is unmoved by this.