Jan 2012 - Gem Decor®

Jan 15, 2012 Gem Decor® NMG Group is pleased to announce plans to launch the Decorative, Design and Gift market branding of Madagascar Minerals® as Gem Decor® in the 1st quarter of 2012. Gem Décor’s focus is on corporate gifts, large chain and or big box store supply, shopping television networks, along with gallery and e-commerce branding resellers.
For more information visit www.Gem-Decor.com

Jan 2012 - Madagascar Minerals® Gem Show Update

Jan 18, 2012 Tucson Gem Show update Norcross-Madagascar is open and ready for business early at this year’s Madagascar Minerals Gem Show in Tucson. Clients that find themselves in town early our encouraged to come by, and receive specials that will not be available during the regular show.

Oct 2011 - Labradorite Peacock Blue Block Quarry Update

NMG Group is pleased to announce early production at their quarry, near Maniry.
The quarry was opened in Aug 2011.
150 tons of blocks were trucked to the port of Tulear last week, with an estimated monthly production at 300 tons per month.

Aug 2011 - New Scottsdale Gallery

Gem Surfaces gallery is now open! We are pleased to invite designers, architects, fabricators and any other professional in the trade to our new Scottsdale gallery, displaying more than 100 gemstone slabs in stock.

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NMG Group is pleased to announce a 7-year term mining contract that was signed July 19, regarding their Labradorite claim, in Maniry. NORCROSS EXPLORATION AND EXPLOITATION SARL has agreed to a joint venture with a Chinese firm, YUAN SHI KUANG YE GONGSI SARL to develop the mine. The mine will produce very high quality dimensional blocks, which will be sold to luxury granite slab production companies throughout the world.

June 2011 - Amazonite Mine update

NMG Group is pleased to announce a 1-year mining exclusivity contact with a Chinese firm. This Chinese firm, has been a long-term strategic partner with the Norcross Group. NMG hopes that this deal will help open up the quarry to improve its production efficiency.

April 2011 - Gem Surfaces® newest gallery

Gem Surfaces is pleased to announce the opening of their newest gallery June 1, 2011.
The Gallery is located at 15125 N. Hayden Rd. Scottsdale, AZ 85260,
inside The Scottsdale Design Center , suite #108.
(South East Corner of Hayden and N.83rd Pl.)
The gallery will showcase more than 100 slabs on display, along with a few custom cut-to-fit applications, tiles, tabletops, and a variety of Gem Decor.

Jan 2011 - Garnet in Matrix Update

In July, the NMG Group acquired a famous a 40-year producing Garnet in Matrix Mine. The NMG group holds many garnet properties, but the significance of this mine is the fact that its overburden has long been removed, and the black granite and ore matrix outcrop is exposed. The plan is to produce large dimensional blocks from this Garnet in Matrix, and have the blocks cut into slabs for luxury granite and marble industry.
Once cut into large slabs, the polished product displays fantastic garnets (flat) in the black granite matrix (see pics).
Most of the garnets produced from this mine are Spessartite Garnets (Mandarin Orange Color). This mining claim is beside NMG’s Zebradorite, Yellow Jasper, Chestnut Jasper (Red Jasper), and Rhodonite claims.

Jan 2011 - Petrified Wood update

NMG Group, the world’s largest producer of Petrified Wood, is pleased to announce Petrified Wood Slices > 1m in diameter will be on display at all 5 locations at this year’s Tucson Gem and Mineral shows and Madagascar Minerals Gem Show in Tucson. More than 100 large crated slabs will be on display and available for sale.

Jan 2011

Gem Surfaces is pleased to unveil plans to open a new Gallery and Slab distribution location in the Kierland - Airpark Design District of North Scottsdale, AZ.

Jan 2011

Gem Surfaces is pleased to announce plans to open a new Gallery and Slab distribution location in Guangzhou, China. Although Gem Surfaces has produced product in China for the last 6 years, this will be the first attempt at penetrating into the Chinese luxury market.

Dec 2010 - Amazonite Mine Update

NMG has been producing nice blue-green Amazonite from their recently aquired deposit in the Amboasitra region of Madagascar. Site tests have been conducted for the feasibility of dimensional block mining for the future. Current results have brought on mixed information. The Amazonite outcrops located and currently worked; appear to be too narrow for larger block mining. NMG Group is hopeful a larger Amazonite vein will be discovered in the next year, with their region which is 7.5 km2. Current production is at 20 tons per month, at this early stage.

Dec 2010 Block Quartz Update

NMG Group is pleased to announce a good season of collecting large blocks of quartz from their quartz field. The acquisition of this large property (200 km2) was made in 2007. NMG explorers are still short of their mission of locating a solid “mountain” of quartz, but are confident this goal isn’t too difficult to achieve. NMG lead explorer, Romero Ranivoarison (Meme) explains, “since the concentration of large quartz blocks is so high in this area, it’s only a matter of time, before we find at least one solid mountain of quartz.” He added further, “Our budget was cut in this area for other opportunities elsewhere, so I’m confident within 1-2 years we will succeed in this regional mission”. NMG plans to use the solid quartz outcrop for quartz aggregate mining. The quartz will be crushed in a variety of sizes, and sold as a commodity for the Engineered Stone Industry as a primary ingredient used in Quartz Surfaces.

Sept 2010

Gem Surfaces is pleased to announce the successful implementation of team of Manufacturer’s Representatives in an effort to boost global sales. Robert Grant, Gem Surfaces CEO made the following statement, “...with reps now being trained in more than 20 markets, we should now be able to close sales where our competition has a physical presence, and we previously did not.” Grant added, “it is only a beginning, as we are still in the training stages, but the bottom line is we will now have a stronger opportunity to present product to the Architect and Design community - in person”.

Aug 10

NMG is pleased to announce the acquisition of PHASE 1 of the Ambiobob project. The Amboibob is the name of a small mountain, outside the capital, the group has been trying to purchase for the last 8 years, and is the proposed location for the future NMG Group headquarters and factory. The next 2 phases of the program involve sustainability land-use projects for the local community. This small mountain is the only large property available that is undeveloped near the capital, Antananarivo, and on the Majunga road. NMG will need to build a bridge to access the land through a rice field. It has remained unused due to the access issue until now.

The total land size of the project is 50 Hectares, and phase one is 12.
NMG credits the local mayor, Mamy Rabenirina, for sharing in the vision, endorsing the plan, and bridging all interest groups to make this dream a reality.

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March 10

Amazonite Mine Update:
After two years of hard work, NMG Group is pleased to announce the final acquisition of their Amazonite region. Environmental impact assessments were accepted, and production is underway.
Success in this region was only possible thanks to the help of new NMG explorers, Falimanana Rabearisoa (Faly) and Mamy Rakotoarimaitso. Mr. Rabearisoa and Mr. Rakotoarimaitso will be constructing an access road, and excavating the overburden on top of the amazonite outcrop. They are also drilling and conducting tests on the feasibility and economic potential for dimension block mining; the real reason behind NMG's motivation to operate in this remote area.