Gem Focus – February 2024 – Featuring Wavellite: the radiating mineral popular with collectors
When its spherical clusters are broken open, the cross section displays a popular signature pattern.
*Gem Focus & Market Pulse (Free Subscriber)When its spherical clusters are broken open, the cross section displays a popular signature pattern.
*Gem Focus & Market Pulse (Free Subscriber)In the industry, it’s not uncommon for trade members to refer to diamonds on the D-to-Z scale as “white diamonds,” but in reality, they’re two very different things.
*Gem Focus & Market Pulse (Free Subscriber)Hackmanite is a variety of mineral species sodalite, but it has one especially cool thing going for it: tenebrescence.
*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.
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