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Natural vs. Synthetic Diamonds

Natural vs. Synthetic Diamonds What was once considered impossible is now a reality; Synthetic gem quality diamonds are here! They are affordable, and they are...

Mainers – The BIG Find!

The Big Find: A Legend Continuesmainemineralmuseum.org In October 1972, near the top of Plumbago Mountain in Newry, George Hartman, Dean McCrillis, Dale Sweatt, and contract...

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...

An Exclusive Post Auction Interview with Dev Shetty

An Exclusive Post Auction Interview with Dev Shetty https://youtu.be/qovSWqh_Dkk "We are very happy," says an exuberant Dev Shetty, Founder & CEO of FURA Gems. "It"'s a...
$200.3 Million Private Jewelry Collection - The Heidi Horten Auction

$200.3 Million Private Jewelry Collection – The Heidi Horten Auction

$200.3 Million Private Jewelry Collection - The Heidi Horten Auction Heidi Horten's jewelry collection has now been sold! For just over $200 million dollars! Over a...

Curious Details of GIA’s July Lab Staff Layoffs

Curious Details of GIA's July Lab Staff Layoffs Gary RoskinRoskin Gem News Report In late July, the Gemological Institute of America (GIA), one of the world"'s...

Gemworld International Announces Several Changes

For Immediate Release - Jan. 4, 2023 - Gemworld International Announces Several Changes: - Brecken Branstrator named GemGuide"'s editor-in-chief - Stuart Robertson steps into...

Chromium Surface Diffusion: a Trade Alert

Chromium Surface Diffusion: a Trade Alert Chromium Surface Diffusion Treated "Ruby"By: Jeffery Bergman - ASG SGC of EighthDimensionGemsPhotos by Ayub Muhammad of Pretty Little GemJuly...

Barbara M. Berk’s “Aquamarine Rhapsody” now in the Smithsonian

Barbara M. Berk"'s "Aquamarine Rhapsody" now in the Smithsonian Gary Roskin - Roskin Gem News Report - Platinum and aquamarine pendant donated to the National...

“Never Stop Innovating: Gem Artist Chi Huynh”

"Never Stop Innovating: Gem Artist Chi Huynh" GIA's Gems & Gemology's Winter issue has several articles worth reading. But there is one feature story that...

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...

Gemworld Reports on 2024 Expectations

Gemworld Reports on 2024 Expectations Gary RoskinRoskin Gem news Report Stuart Robertson, president of Gemworld International, and Brecken Branstrator, editor in chief of Gemworld"'s GemGuide, offered...