Gem Focus – April 2023 – Featuring Rainbow Lattice: The feldspar with two phenomena
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)Gem Focus – February 2023 – Featuring Padparadscha: The most delicately colored corundum variety
Among “fancy sapphires,” padparadscha, the delicate pure pink-orange variety, is the most popular and arguably the rarest.
*Gem Focus & Market Pulse (Free Subscriber)Gem Focus – January 2023 – Featuring Fire Opal: A gem of flames
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)Gem Focus December 2022 – Tanzanite and Other Varieties of Zoisite
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)Gem Focus November 2022 – Featuring Citrine: a fall colored gem that anyone can afford…
Quartz, the second most common mineral in the world’s crust composition, has many uses in our lives.
*Gem Focus & Market Pulse (Free Subscriber)Gem Focus October 2022: Diaspore; the color-change, the cat’s eye, and the red…
Diaspore from Turkey has been an exciting find for the devoted mineral and gem collectors for many decades.
*Gem Focus & Market Pulse (Free Subscriber)Gem Focus September 2022: Gold; the oldest commodity for all cultures…
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)Gem Focus August 2022: Rhodochrosite; a rose-colored ornamental gem rarely seen in transparent form…
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.
*Gem Focus & Market Pulse (Free Subscriber)Gem Focus July 2022: Andalusite; warm contrasting greens and reds in one gem…
Gemstones are arguably the most aesthetic representatives of minerals in nature. Common understanding of a gem’s beauty is attributed to its color and transparency. However, there are other mineralogical properties that might make a gemstone attractive, even unusual.
*Gem Focus & Market Pulse (Free Subscriber)Gem Focus June 2022: Tsavorite; the fresh green variety of garnet family..
High-end buyers are given more options while understanding that the beauty and rarity of tsavorite clearly justify its price.
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