Mint Tourmaline
The term mint is generally applied to light to medium green to blue-green tourmalines with high saturation with no gray or brown component. Tourmaline gemstone varieties are known to fall into any color of the spectrum…
Market TrendsGem 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.
*Gem Focus & Market Pulse (Free Subscriber)Gem Focus May 2022: Quartz gems with curious inclusions
Basic definition of inclusions may be given as trapped foreign materials or irregularities in a gemstone. They simply reflect the formation conditions regardless of the gemstone’s origin, natural or lab-grown. While natural inorganic gems contain…
*Gem Focus & Market Pulse (Free Subscriber)Rushing (Or Should I Say Russian) To Buy Rough Diamonds…Stop.
The current diamond market is on edge waiting for a drop in prices but polished prices for the most part have stayed steady or in a very slight decline.
Diamond MarketThe Value of Pearls: A Historical Review and Current Trends
Pearls are often reported as the oldest valuable gem known to humankind, and have been collected for at least 8,500 years
Featured ArticlesThe Artful Soul of Faust
The Artful Soul of Faust cameo collection carved by Dieter and Andreas Roth took over seven years to complete.
Featured ArticlesColored Stone Market
After two relatively strong years of growth for the gem and jewelry industry, the market is entering a phase where rising costs of consumer staples as well as growing concern that the war in the Ukraine may expand in scope, consumer spending on nonessenials is expected to taper.
Colored Stone MarketSecret Valuation Service
After months of intense work, under the burden of a top-secret clearance, a cryptanalyst 1 breaks an encryption. However, based on the maximum of “the need-to-know,” he is not allowed to read any intercepted secret…
The Appraiser's NotebookGem Focus April 2022: Peridot; an ancient stone aptly named after olives as a mineral.
Peridot is a yellowish green to green gemstone belonging to the olivine mineral group. It has been known for thousands of years.
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