Gem Hunt: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

How do jewelers secure their inventory? They buy pieces from people like Ron LeBlanc. Gem Hunt takes viewers inside the daring, unpredictable and often dangerous gem industry, where LeBlanc and his cohorts -- luxury goods adviser and entrepreneur Diane Robinson and geologist Bernie Gaboury -- travel to remote trading regions in search of the world's biggest, brightest and most profitable jewels. With potentially enormous payoffs and the aspiration of finding the perfect stone as guiding forces, LeBlanc and his partners set out to acquire gems -- from emeralds in Colombia and moonstone in Sri Lanka, to pearls in Myanmar and topaz in Brazil -- for their own discerning clientele. The hunters quickly size up the players in each locale, ensure that the goods are authentic or potential fakes, and negotiate the best price before the stone is cut.

Series details

• Title: Gem Hunt
• Format: Reality
• Language: English
• Premiere date: 2013-10-15
• Final broadcast date listed: 2014-01-21
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: Travel Channel
• Network country: United States
• Typical episode runtime: 60 minutes
• TVMaze ID: 18897
• IMDb ID: tt2570312
• TVDB ID: 273930

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2013-10-15; final listed air date 2014-01-21.

Source and licence

Adapted from Gem Hunt on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.