Commentary: The Issue of Source
Supply shortages are always important topics of conversation for the trade, but can current high rough prices be attributed to more than that?
Featured ArticlesDescribing Color: A Fool’s Guide
The market today is increasingly asking for color descriptors on colored gemstone reports. But talking about color comes with many complexities, making it a near-impossible task for labs.
Featured ArticlesGetting to Know a Mineral Legend
Bill Larson’s decades-long career has resulted in more than 100 trips across the globe and more than 1,000 mineral specimens in his own personal collection.
Featured ArticlesTucson Sets Upbeat Outlook for 2023
Fine quality, classic gems as well as unusual materials dominated this year’s Tucson trends. There was little interest in lower-quality common stones. Prices are what they are.
Featured ArticlesHot Trends, Hot Topics from Tucson
The annual gem shows brought many buyers and exhibitors back to Tucson this year, with floors active and crowded after opening the first day. Here are some insights from the 2023 events.
Featured ArticlesThe Rare, the Unusual, and the Obscure…
The basic definition of a gemstone is a material that is beautiful, durable, and rare. Each feature has a broad meaning, and all are debatable.
Featured ArticlesA Discussion and Identification of Beryllium Diffused Sapphires
Reports published on the internet caused a worldwide controversy for corundum treatments, which ranged from simple heat treatment to high-heat aided treatments such as beryllium diffusion in the past two decades. Lack of understanding of…
Featured ArticlesIndustry Insights: The Latest Jewelry Industry Trends
Buoyed by the tailwinds of last year’s record growth and despite all the negative economic news, the first eight months of 2022 delivered sales growth for the entire retail sector, the jewelry industry, and jewelry stores. That’s the good news. But times are changing!
Featured ArticlesBlue Opal Find In Chihuahua, Mexico
A new location of blue opal has been revealed in the northern Mexico state of Chihuahua, near Copper Canyon in the Sierra Madre.
Featured ArticlesLab-Grown Diamond Screening
A laboratory-grown diamond, commonly referred to as "laboratory-created," "synthetic," "man-made," or simply "lab-grown," is a diamond that appears optically identical to natural diamonds.
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