Month: February 2023

Takeaways & Quotes from the 2023 AGA Tucson Conference

Posted on February 22, 2023 by Brecken Branstrator, GIA GG

Every year during the Tucson gem shows, the Accredited Gemologists Association holds its annual day-long education conference.

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Gem Focus – February 2023 – Featuring Padparadscha: The most delicately colored corundum variety

Posted on February 15, 2023 by Author: Çiğdem Lüle, PhD, FGA, GIA GG, DGA

Among these “fancy sapphires,” padparadscha, the delicate pure pink-orange variety, is the most popular and arguably the rarest.

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