Gem Focus – August 2023 – Featuring Lab-Grown Diamonds: The topic that consumes us
Prices continue to slide, market share has skyrocketed, and the trade can’t stop talking about lab-grown diamonds.
*Gem Focus & Market Pulse (Free Subscriber)Prices continue to slide, market share has skyrocketed, and the trade can’t stop talking about lab-grown diamonds.
*Gem Focus & Market Pulse (Free Subscriber)Biogenic and organic materials never fail to fascinate.
*Gem Focus & Market Pulse (Free Subscriber)The time is right for rare and phenomenal stones as buyers look for unique gems that will set their designs apart.
*Gem Focus & Market Pulse (Free Subscriber)Among “fancy sapphires,” padparadscha, the delicate pure pink-orange variety, is the most popular and arguably the rarest.
*Gem Focus & Market Pulse (Free Subscriber)This variety of opal can be found both with or without play of color, and the body color ranges from light yellow to deep reds and oranges.
*Gem Focus & Market Pulse (Free Subscriber)Tanzanite has been marketed as an affordable alternative to blue sapphire, but it has its own place in the market.
*Gem Focus & Market Pulse (Free Subscriber)Quartz, the second most common mineral in the world’s crust composition, has many uses in our lives.
*Gem Focus & Market Pulse (Free Subscriber)Diaspore from Turkey has been an exciting find for the devoted mineral and gem collectors for many decades.
*Gem Focus & Market Pulse (Free Subscriber)Yellow metallic luster of gold is probably the most coveted sight for any explorer and miner since the beginning.
*Gem Focus & Market Pulse (Free Subscriber)Rhodochrosite is a manganese carbonate mineral (MnCO3) with low hardness of 4 and three directional perfect cleavage. The structure is very similar to calcite since it is a calcite group mineral with remarkable coloration thanks to manganese.
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