GILC Finally Gives the Verdict on Glass-Filled Ruby Disclosures

June 2nd, 2010 No comments

National Jeweler

May 26, 2010

New York–Following months of discussion and debate about what jewelers should say when selling lead glass-filled rubies to consumers, the Gemstone Industry and Laboratory Conference (GILC) ruby committee–which held a meeting about the issue during the Tucson gem shows in February–has reached an agreement on disclosure.
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GIA, NY Lab, IDs a CVD Diamond Over 1 Carat in Size

May 6th, 2010 No comments

This 1.05 ct pear shape (9.81 x 5.95 x 3.06 mm) was color-graded as equivalent to G. In addition to pinpoint inclusions, it contained some feathers and fractures along the girdle, and its clarity grade was equivalent to I1.

Well, this will make things a bit more difficult in determining whether a diamond is natural or synthetic. So, folks, pay some very close attention to your diamonds you get in to ID and/or appraise, this could be a very costly mistake! “If in doubt send it out!™”  I doubt these are saturating the market currently in large numbers, but it more then likely will not be long until they are!

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Gem TV Files Chapter 11 & Gem-Metrics Poll

April 8th, 2010 No comments

First off please be sure to take the Gem-Metrics Poll on the lower right of the website, thank you very much.

Secondly, this is an unusual announcement considering the last thing heard was a bid to buy another TV show, but

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Banner Advertising Available

April 4th, 2010 No comments

GA now has banner advertising available for qualified and legitimate businesses who pass our strict guidelines for the trade, basically the same as those from the FTC and JEA.  All proceeds go to the maintenance, costs of keeping this website running, i.e. web space, bandwidth, domain fees, etc., and for future upgrades and growth. Because of this we do not need to ask much in the way of advertising fees per month to display your ads. This works out well for both parties. :) . Use the Contact Us page to email us for details. We also have low cost banner creation services for you if you do not already have advertising banners at your disposal.

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Gemstone Alert: Clarity Enhanced Garnets On The Market Part I

January 6th, 2010 No comments

First off let me start by showing the image that started the online flaming and arguments towards myself for posting it. I do need to add that technically my initial description of the image was actually not totally correct!! Instead of calling it a picture showing the fracture filling of a hessonite garnet, I technically should have called it an image showing the partially filled fracture of a hessonite garnet.

partially filled fracture

Partially filled fracture

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Nanocut Plasma-Etched Diamonds: A New Technique to Enhance Fire

December 7th, 2009 No comments
Enhanced Diamond

Enhanced Diamond

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ISG: The dyefusion of blue tourmaline!

November 24th, 2009 No comments

ISG releases a new newsletter with smoking gun proof of the treating of blue tourmaline. They are calling this treatment “dyefusion”.

The entire article/newsletter with full details and pictures can be seen HERE.

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Gemstone Alert: Gemlab Identifies Faked Emeralds

November 7th, 2009 No comments

Thomas Hainschwang with Gemlab Gemological Laboratory announced that he recently examined and tested three(3) Emeralds that were purchased in India. The stones were reportedly guaranteed by the Seller to be completely natural and untreated Emeralds. The stones were translucent, green in color as one would expect, and full of fibrous inclusions. When examined under a  microscope Hainschwang reported that these stones were not full of fibrous inclusions but, instead, actually had a fibrous structure! It was also noted that the green coloring was concentrated within this fibrous structure.  This of course indicates that the material is dyed and not an Emerald.

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AGTA ePrism – 2010 Board announced

November 5th, 2009 No comments

AGTA ePrism Nov 4, 2009 issue announces the 2010 Board of Directors election results. We add our GemAddicts congratulations. There are a wide variety of subjects in this issue from the Hope Diamond to the latest fashion colors.

Read full issue here

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Monitor Calibration, and Internet Browsers, and Color Profiles, Oh My!

November 1st, 2009 No comments

Now, this article is going to be a bit technical, no choice, but I promise to keep it in as simple of terms as physical possible! Now, I am sure by now all of you are thinking something along the line of, ‘What the heck does monitor calibration, internet browsers, and color profiles have to do with gemstones and for that matter what are they!!??”. Am I close? LOL. Well, that is the goal of this article, as well as to give you the consumer and you the Retailer the proper tools and know how in order to make the purchasing of colored gemstones on the internet even more like shopping in a Brick & Mortar Storefront!

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