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Every year, fresh design perspectives and fashion trends pave the way for the looks that should fill your store cases. Here are the 10 most directional jewelry styles, colors, finishes, and motifs you need to…
Featured ArticlesSphene
Consumers are more aware of unusual and rare gems in the global market. This awareness is supported by high end jewelry designers using stones such as sphene. This fiery gemstone’s correct mineralogical name is titanite…
Market TrendsFrom a Trust-Based to a Transparency-Based Industry
HOW TECHNOLOGY DRIVES CHANGES IN THE GEMSTONE INDUSTRY Applied to our industry, the blockchain offers a permanent, immutable record that traces a gemstone’s individual journey through the value chain, from the mine to the end-consumer and…
Featured ArticlesDreher Carvings
(Five Generations of) Gemstone Animals from Idar-Oberstein 240 pp., 22 x 29 cm, 200 color Illustrations. Hardcover with dust jacket. English. $85.00 ISBN: 978-3-89790-507-8 ©2017 Arnoldsche Art Publishers During a recent visit to Carlsbad, California for the Sinkansas Symposium, I had the…
Book ReviewVegas Baby! Never Disappoints… Titans Battle it out
The gloves were off in Las Vegas as Rapaport slams DeBeers and DeBeers slams back a few days later. DeBeers entry into synthetic diamonds is an interesting move with a low price per carat concept…
Diamond MarketSinkankas Symposium—Tanzanite and Tsavorite
On April 14, the GIA hosted the 15th annual Sinkankas Symposium co-sponsored by the Gemological Society of San Diego, “named for one of the most distinguished and influential figures in gemology and mineralogy.” The event…
ConferencesColored Stone Market
The June JCK Vegas Show largely fizzles as buyers are for the most part M.I.A. Big trends in colored stones continue to be Ethiopian emeralds, teal colored sapphires, mint, and most other garnets and neon…
Colored Stone MarketGem Market Pulse June 2018: Aquamarine
Featured Gem: Aquamarine The summer show circuit has begun with the JCK and related shows just behind us in Las Vegas and New York JA up next in July. While trade shows are definitely an opportunity…
*Gem Focus & Market Pulse (Free Subscriber)Enhanced Lapidary Materials: Lapis and Gold in Quartz
Previous articles by the author covered the most recent breed of enhanced lapidary materials in the form of fancy compressed blocks comprised of natural gemstone ingredients, metals, shells and resins. Also, howlite and magnesite—two minerals that have…
Featured ArticlesDaylight Fluorescent Opal
Semi-transparent to transparent opal that is capable of being faceted is not unusual. Most are familiar with the cherry opal from Mexico, ranging in color from a yellowish- orange to reddish-orange, some with a play…
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