The 2026 Spring Fair showcased a wide range of exquisitely crafted and valuable gemstone artworks, attracting large crowds of people to visit, shop, and admire them.
A booth in the gemstone section at the first Autumn Fair - 2025 is displaying coral and petrified wood dating back hundreds of millions of years, worth billions of Vietnamese dong.
At the Autumn Fair 2025 (Hanoi), the gemstone booth displayed a Nine Dragons Fighting for the Pearl statue made from golden rutilated quartz and many other unique works worth nearly 100 billion VND.
From a single block of quartz with a purity of up to 95%, Mr. Tran Duy Khoa (Phu Nhuan District, Ho Chi Minh City) hired craftsmen to create a four-faced Buddha statue over a period of one year.
This province is the gemstone capital of our country, the origin and source of rubies, sapphires, and spinel, which are considered among the most beautiful in the world.
The gemstone market on Hoang Hoa Tham Street (Hanoi) is bustling with buyers and sellers, offering a wide variety of gemstones for everyone to choose from.
In Luc Yen district, Yen Bai province, a unique market sells only one item: precious stones, many of which are worth billions of dong, yet they are displayed for sale like vegetables at a regular market.
Mr. Tran Duy Khoa (Phu Nhuan District, Ho Chi Minh City) owns a Luc Yen ruby weighing 1,9 kg, measuring 20 cm in height and 10 cm in thickness, with a distinctive red color.
While digging for bamboo shoots in the mountains, an old man in Zhejiang, China, accidentally found a rock worth nearly 2.000 trillion Vietnamese dong.
Artisan Tô Chinh (Hanoi) crafted an "old grapevine" from a single block of Onyx, in the style of an ancient tree radiating essence, with a dragon's head as its center.
Hundreds of people in Luc Yen district have flocked to dig for gemstones, hoping to strike it rich in the Chay River sandbank area (Luc Yen district, Yen Bai province).
This object, grayish-white on the outside and pale pink on the inside, has a very distinctive fragrance and is suspected to be ambergris. It was recovered by fishermen while fishing in distant waters.
The Glasshouse greenhouse in England, spanning 141 square meters, grows rare plants and can be opened and closed to protect the plants inside depending on weather conditions.
Two ghost ships buried at the bottom of the sea for centuries, recently unearthed by Israel, are brimming with valuable treasures, including exquisite jewelry and ancient coins of immense value.
Mr. Tran Duy Khoa's (Phu Nhuan District, Ho Chi Minh City) collection of rare rubies includes Buddhist-themed pieces and solid blocks of stone, valued at millions of USD.