Describing Color in Gems • A Fool’s Guide

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Gems & Gemology

Gems & Gemology SPRING 2023 - VOLUME 59, ISSUE 1 On a personal note, if nothing else, the images in this issue, especially in the Sapphire & Tucson...
Congratulations on Dr. Jeffrey Post retirement

Dr. Jeffrey Post

Thank You & Congratulations on your retirement! To-Do After Post-Doc at Harvard: Get a Job It was the Fall of 1983 … Dr. Jeffrey Post was...

GSI opens third lab in Mumbai

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Blackstone Acquires International Gemological Institute (IGI)

Blackstone Acquires International Gemological Institute (IGI) Antwerp, May 21, 2023 – Blackstone (NYSE:BX) announced today that private equity funds managed by Blackstone (“Blackstone”) have acquired International...

Colorado’s Great Gems and Where to Find Them

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A Gem Mining Region Crisis: What Cyclone Freddy Left Behind: Complete Devastation.

A Gem Mining Region Crisis: What Cyclone Freddy left behind: complete devastation. by Alfred NoahArtisanal Miner, Malawi and MozambiqueBlantyre, Malawi Tragic Statistics Over 500,000 people displaced.Approximately 577...

US$155,552,014! Auction Results Top Estimate, Even Before Day 2

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Greenwashing – a recommendation

Greenwashing - a recommendation Over the past several months, we've been reading published articles talking about the problems in our industry with "greenwashing," embellishing the...
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Laboratory Color Nomenclature: Gemological Science or Marketing?

Laboratory Color Nomenclature: Gemological Science or Marketing? It has been a while since I have written a personal note. But now here goes. The troubling conversation...

HartSpröde goes INTERGEM! GemTec is becoming part of INTERGEM!

HartSpröde goes INTERGEM! GemTec is becoming part of INTERGEM! INTERGEM 2023 is getting a new addition in the form of GemTec - Forum and Exhibition....

The L’ECOLE School of Jewelry Arts

Supported by Van Cleef & Arpels, the L’ECOLE School of Jewelry Arts ALLYSON KLASS02 MAY 2023PrestigeOnline.com Back to basics, the L'Ecole school of Jewelry Arts is...