In addition, Pakistan is blessed with vast natural reserves of precious and semi precious coloured gemstones, including ruby, emerald, tourmaline, garnet , topaz, peridot, aquamarine, spinel, pargasite, diopside, moonstone, serpentine jade, epidote, pink beryl (morganite), purple beryl, sphene, zoisite, lapis lazuli, turquoise, kunzite and almost all known varieties of quartz.

Considering these two factors  Pakistan is  ideally placed for the industry to flourish and grow to meet the international challenges, if channelized in  the right direction.

PGJDC, which has the support and backing of the Government of Pakistan through Ministry of Industries and Production, has been allocated Rs. 1.4 billion for its developmental projects and Rs. 150 million for its operational expenses. The success of two years of consultative exercise which led to the formation of PGJDC would have been impossible without the personal attention and encouragement given throughout by Mr. Jehangir Khan Tareen, Ex-Minister for Industries, Production & Special Initiatives, Government of Pakistan.

This consultative process of value chain analysis, gap identification and pilot project identification was led by private sector stakeholders representing all the four provinces and federally administered territories. The result was the first ever mine-to-market strategy based on first hand information.