Gem Focus – August 2025 – Featuring Fire Agate: the chalcedony with a flaming iridescence
Fine pieces show spectral colors, with blue and purple being among the most prized.
*Gem Focus & Market Pulse (Free Subscriber)Gem Focus – June 2025 – Featuring Malachite: The classic green mineral popular in design
Used since antiquity, malachite is popping up in modern designs in bigger numbers.
*Gem Focus & Market Pulse (Free Subscriber)Gem Focus – April 2025 – Featuring Anthill Garnet: the pyrope unearthed with the help of insects
It’s gathered largely in the Navajo Indian Reservation in Arizona.
*Gem Focus & Market Pulse (Free Subscriber)Gem Focus – February 2025 – Featuring Red Spinel: the historic gem that caused some confusion
It appears in important historic jewels, though it was misidentified as “balas ruby.”
*Gem Focus & Market Pulse (Free Subscriber)Gem Focus – December 2024 – Featuring Apatite: the vibrant gem popular with connoisseurs
Though it’s soft and rarely used in jewelry, its vibrant and saturated colors make it a popular collector’s gem.
*Gem Focus & Market Pulse (Free Subscriber)Gem Focus – October 2024 – Featuring ‘Santa Maria’ Aquamarine: the best of the best for the blue gem
Though the name once referred to a locality, it is now used in the trade to indicate a color.
*Gem Focus & Market Pulse (Free Subscriber)Gem Focus – August 2024 – Featuring Ametrine: The intriguing bicolor quartz
Beloved for its contrasting colors, it’s affordable and available in big sizes.
*Gem Focus & Market Pulse (Free Subscriber)Gem Focus – June 2024 – Featuring Chameleon Diamonds: fancy color diamonds with a temporary color change
These phenomenal stones show a color change when exposed to heat or taken out of the light.
*Gem Focus & Market Pulse (Free Subscriber)Gem Focus – April 2024 – Featuring Australian Sapphires: the corundum that matches today’s trends
Their blue, teal, and parti-color options have led the gems to have something of a resurgence of late.
*Gem Focus & Market Pulse (Free Subscriber)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.
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