2022 CGA Gem Conference

2022 CGA Gem Conference, October 21-23 – Vancouver, BC Over the next several weeks, the Roskin Gem News will feature the guest speakers who presented...
Surface Diffusion

Ti Surface Diffusion: Just when you thought it was an easy identification

New research shows that the titanium surface diffusion treatment is being polished off the facets, but left inside cavities and fractures. Stone Group...

from Gemworld International: Citrine

2022GemFocus-NovCitrineDownload This feature provided by Gemworld International, Inc., publisher of the GemGuide and Gem Market News.

Gems & Gemology, Fall issue 2022

GIA's flagship publication Gems & Gemology - Fall 2022 IN THIS ISSUEMethods and Challenges of Establishing the Geographic Origin of DiamondsSapphire Beneath the Rich Black...

Lizzadro: Celebrating 60 years!

New Exhibit Celebrates the Lizzadro Museum’s 60th Anniversary “On The Cutting Edge - Contemporary Gemstone Sculpture”By Helen Serras-Herman A fabulous exhibit titled “On the Cutting...

Journal of Gemmology 38/no.3

The latest issue of the Journal is out. Lab grown diamonds are up front along with meetings and symposium proceedings. Features include Turquoise from...

Polishing Pretty Stories

jewellerybusiness.com - by Diana Jarrett - Engage customers with the entire tale of coloured stones Coloured gems sell -- we don't even need to classify...

How to Clean and Care for Your Jewelry

NYTimes.com - Zoe Vanderweide | October 31, 2022 - Gold not so glittering? Diamonds looking dim? Lotions, household cleaners, improper storage, and everyday wear...

Marvel’s Reality Stones are real, spectacular rubies — and they’re on sale

Mozambique, transparent, no heat - LATimes.com - JEVON PHILLIPS, MULTIPLATFORM EDITOR -   Just as the Avengers did, a chosen few people can start collecting...

Why lasers are being used to write inside diamonds

BBCBen MorrisTechnology of Business editor I am peering through a jeweller's eyeglass, looking for the BBC logo that has been inscribed inside a small diamond. The...

On the Cutting Edge: Contemporary Gemstone Sculpture

On display now, featuring ten lapidary artists from the Americas representing gem carving trends in the 21st Century.Georg SchmerholzJulio Martínez BarnetcheLawrence StollerLuis Alberto Quispe...

Fluorescence that proves Natural

Stone Group LaboratoriesCara & Bear Williams Findings from Stone Group Laboratories shows the blue/white fluorescence in diamond can only be natural in origin. Many gemstones...

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Azerbaijan to Establish Laboratories for Determining Gemological Properties of Diamond: KP...

Diamond mines in Azerbaijan? And if not, from where is the rough originating? According to the OEC, the Observatory of Economic Complexity, diamond exports from Azerbaijan...