Rio de Janeiro, Brazil is where we ship from as we have been legally living & working here for the last 23 years. I have a registered export company. I work together with Axel. He is German and lives since 2012 in Rio. Together we promoting our minerals and artwork from various brazilian mines and carvers. We use ebay, our homepages www.gwgems.com, www.wolkendrift.com and facebook. If you ve any questions, feel free to ask!