IGR – Rivista Italiana di Gemmologia nr. 18 – Primavera 2024
By IGR
18 April 2024
IGR – Rivista Italiana di Gemmologia, the Italian Gemological Review, is the leading International Gemological Magazine in Italy, by Gem-Tech Gemological Institute, a broad information framework for Gemologists as well as professionals involved daily in the gemstone business.
In the 18th edition, we see featured several write-ups, including the following:
^The Diamond View – Navigating the Transition: Insights into the Global Diamond Market in 2024 (Sergio Sorrentino)
^10X – Your friendly inclusions. The detective at the inclusions party. Sixteenth episode (Luigi Costantini and Claudio Russo)
-GEM NEWS – The sumptuous inauguration of the Surat Diamond Exchange. Will it collaborate or overlap with the one in Mumbai?
-GEM NEWS – Will the De Beers/Botswana diamond quota agreement pave the way for social equality in the country?
-GEM NEWS – The first synthesis of lapis lazuli was created by Raimondo di Sangro in eighteenth-century Naples: research by the University of Bari
-GEM NEWS – One of the rarest meteorites has fallen in Italy and opens new horizons
-GEM NEWS – In France, synthetic diamonds cannot be defined as “cultivated” or “created in a laboratory”
-GEM NEWS – As long as it works. The GIA adopts the term “Hanadama” for the evaluation of Akoya pearls
^RESPONSIBLE STONES – Diamonds in exchange for a better future. Sierra Leone and the missions of Martin Rapaport (Paolo Minieri and Sergio Sorrentino)
^3D elastometric sensors applied to glyptics. From observation to measurement of traces (Flavio Butini and Rose Marie Scappin)
^What is X-ray fluorescence (XRF) (Peters Brangulis)
^Mineralogical characterization of natural or treated Ethiopian opals. Water immersion, transformation and reversibility tests (Ada Antonella Rasulo, Manuela Rossi, Rosanna Rizzi and Miriam Alberico)
^The Ophir Collection: $60 Million dollar Bargain, or $3.2 Billion Dollar Scam? (Jeffery Bergman)
“Featuring 9 Guinness World Records holders in this 43 gemstone collection appraised at a whopping $3.2 Billion, Forbes magazine says of the Ophir Collection «The Mischief Around It Is Priceless». It was recently announced that healthcare services provider Novo Integrated Sciences, Inc. (NASDAQ: NVOS) purchased the Ophir Collection for a mere $60 Million. Tied up in a court case for several years, one would logically ask why a healthcare provider would be acquiring it, and for less than one fifth of 1% of its “appraised” value?”
… and more!
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