AGTA’s Tucson INSPIRE Seminars and Demonstrations: Plan Ahead
It"'s January, and that means we"'re all planning our daily schedules for the upcoming days in Tucson, Arizona, at the gems and minerals shows....
GIA Alumni: Continuing Education
Learn from GIA's best. Continuing education sponsored by the GIA Alumni Collective
Happy Anniversary: GIA’s Gems & Gemology Summer Issue – G&G at 90!
Happy Anniversary: Summer Reading: GIA's Gems & Gemology Summer Issue - G&G at 90!
It is Gems & Gemology"'s (G&G) 90th year, and the Summer...
Hyperion, the Inclusion Search Engine… Provided by Lotus Gemology
The Hyperion image database is a searchable inclusion library, offering nearly 1,800 photomicrographs from the Lotus Gemology laboratory in Bangkok, indexed by gem type,...
Into the Stone: Photomicrography from E. Billie Hughes
E. Billie Hughes, FGA, is a co-founder of Bangkok-based Lotus Gemology, a respected gemological laboratory and educational resource.
A graduate of UCLA, and a Fellow...
Stones and Reveries: The Poetry and Minerals of Roger Caillois
L'ÉCOLE, School of Jewelry Arts, in partnership with France's Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), presents a retrospective dedicated to the collection of the great...
L’ÉCOLE, School of Jewelry Arts: Exhibition in Singapore – “Ruby, Discover the Gemstones”
L"'ÉCOLE, School of Jewelry Arts: Exhibition in Singapore - "Ruby, Discover the Gemstones"
Les Jardins SecretsbyVan Cleef & Arpels - a Boutique and Museum in...
Into the Stone: Photomicrography from E. Billie Hughes
Photomicrography: Into the Stone
Images by E. Billie Hughes
E. Billie Hughes, FGA, is a co-founder of Bangkok-based Lotus Gemology, a respected gemological laboratory and educational...
Photomicrography: Images from Within
Images by Sammantha Maclachlan - We are playing catch-up this week with Sammantha after Tucson. There are THREE wonderful images that we are posting...
Fall 2024 G&G Available Now: GIA’s Gems & Gemology
Once again, GIA's Gems & Gemology(Fall issue 2024) gives us more information than we can absorb in one sitting.
Read ThisAnd because we are in...
Into the Stone: Photomicrography from E. Billie Hughes
Here we have a close-up of a "fingerprint" inclusion in a Madagascar sapphire, shown before-and-after heat treatment. In this paired photomicrograph series by E....
Photomicrography: Images from Within
Images by Sammantha Maclachlan
Once again, Sammantha has sent us another amazing photomicrograph, this time, bundles of rutile needles in a rock crystal quartz cabochon...
