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Market Trends: Spinel

Spinels offer one of the best choices for jewelers looking to create attractive designs from a natural product that boasts all the attributes that gemstones are supposed to exhibit. The market is currently enjoying a…

Tucson Gem Show 2010

The Tucson Gem Shows are widely regarded as a reliable indicator of the strength of the colored stone industry. In all the years that this author has attended, I cannot recall another year where so…

Copyright is Not a Right to Copy

An honest, upscale jeweler sends his appraiser friend the most recent password for accessing the GemGuide online. Not a big deal he thinks, as he has experienced numerous occasions with customers having copies of price…

Beryls-Natural and Synthetic

The beryl family has an interesting range of varieties (Figure-1), with the emerald tending to take ‘centre stage.’ Some evidence supporting this comes in the form of early synthetic emeralds in my teaching collection (Figure…