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Profile: Jewelry Designer and Pearl Innovator Melanie Georgacopoulos

Posted on March 1, 2024 by Brecken Branstrator, GIA GG

Read how the designer, who draws on her background in sculpture and long-standing love of pearls, got her start and where she’ll go next.

Richard W. Hughes – Lotus Gemology

Posted on May 1, 2014 by Stuart M. Robertson, GG (GIA)

During the February Tucson gem show, Stuart Robertson spoke with renowned ruby and sapphire authority Richard Hughes about his latest undertaking—a laboratory focused on putting the “gem” back in gemology. What was the motivation for launching…

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