Following up on Nassau's 1981 article on the technical aspects of heat treating ruby and sapphire, the author reports his personal observations of the actual heat treatment process in Bangkok. He ...

Cultured pearls come in different sizes, shapes, and colors. Perhaps the best-loved gems of all time, pearls—both natural and modern cultured pearls—occur in a wide variety of colors. The most ...

Since Robert Crowningshield's discovery in the late 1950s that diamonds that have been artificially colored by irradiation and subsequent annealing could be identified by their characteristic ...

A look at the history of analytical instruments used for gem testing. UV-Vis-NIR spectroscopy measures how gemstones absorb and interact with light across the ultraviolet, visible, and near-infrared ...

Although the Art Deco period extends roughly from 1910 to well into the 1930s, it was primarily a product of the "Roaring '20s." This was a wonderfully decadent era. It was an age of Prohibition and ...

摩根石是一种坚固耐用的宝石。 只需适当的护理，便可相伴终生，享受佩戴首饰带来的快乐。 - The Greenwood Group。 莫氏硬度用以衡量宝石和矿物的硬度。 这些数字以一种矿物可被其他矿物划伤的 ...

合成宝石材料是在实验室中制成的一种材料，但却具有与其相对应的天然矿物相同的化学、光学和物理特性，虽然在某些情况下，如合成土耳其石和合成蛋白石，可能会有其他化合物的存在。

The majority of saltwater and freshwater pearls bought and sold in the global jewelry markets are “whole pearls,” sometimes referred to as “cyst pearls” (CIBJO, 2017). These pearls form within the ...

Because diamonds formed deep within the earth, under extreme heat and pressure, they often contain unique birthmarks, either internal (inclusions) or external (blemishes). Diamond clarity refers to ...

精优品质的堇青石颜色有时可与蓝宝石或丹泉石媲美。 – Robert Weldon（罗伯特·韦尔登） 首次发现丹泉石时，宝石学家最初怀疑它可能是堇青石 — 一种数千年来为人所知的晶莹剔透、具有多向 ...

With 65,000 volumes, 230,000 images, 2200 videos, and 1200 periodicals, the Richard T. Liddicoat Gemological Library & Information Center and Cartier Rare Book Repository & Archive is the largest, ...