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ASA Partners with BrankoGems Academy

ASA Partners with BrankoGems Academy ASA Partners with BrankoGems Academy to Offer Testing Loose and Mounted Diamonds and Gems Training HERNDON, VA (March 14, 2023) –...

LMHC Makes Progress on Corrundum Treatments

LMHC Makes Progress on Corrundum Treatments 30th LMHC meeting reports progress on laboratory report harmonization,discusses current challenges in detection of corundum treatments BASEL: MARCH 14, 2023 Holding...

NAJA – half-day virtual conference on Organics

NAJA - half-day virtual conference on Organics The upcoming conference will feature four webinars; each topic is specific to the organic gems, their market, quality...

The Dragon Garnet

The Dragon Garnet by Gary Roskin, exclusive for the Roskin Gem News Report Dragon Garnet So, what is Dragon Garnet? What is it? Basically, Dragon Garnet is a Malaya...

Color Enhancement in Ruby has SGL Seeing Red

Color Enhancement in Ruby has SGL Seeing Red by Bear Williams, Stone Group Labs (SGL) RUBIES are typically sent into professional gem labs for Identification...

A Canary in the Ruby Mine

A Canary in the Ruby Mine by E. Billie Hughes and Wim Vertriest Low-Temperature Heat Treatment Experiments on Burmese Ruby Detection of low temperature heat treatment in...

AMNH Gem Hall wins Design Award

AMNH Gem Hall wins Design Award After four years of renovation, Ralph Appelbaum Associates have completed the transformation of the American Museum of Natural History’s...

Country of Origin – 3 Countries for 1 Sapphire

Country of Origin - 3 Countries for 1 Sapphire What does it mean when a sapphire receives 3 Country of Origin reports and each country...

A Day with the AGA

A Day with the AGA the Accredited Gemologists Association - Conference and Awards Ceremony: Tucson 2023

New Spinel Treatment: Nickel Diffusion

New Spinel Treatment: Nickel Diffusion Scientists at the GIA laboratory in New York City recently discovered spinel, treated by nickel diffusion, in a parcel of...

from Gemworld International: Padparadscha

from Gemworld International: Padparadscha Among these “fancy sapphires,” padparadscha, the delicate pure pink-orange variety, is the most popular and arguably the rarest. Prominent corundum varieties ruby...

AGS and GIA Announce Launch of AGS Ideal Report by GIA

AGS and GIA Announce Launch of AGS Ideal Report by GIA Diamond World News ServiceJan 23 2023 1:13PM It is a digital-only supplement to GIA diamond...

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