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Large Tridacna Shell With A Blister Pearl And A Shell Blister

Unique Fingerprint In Montana Sapphire

Calcite Pearl With Red X-Ray Fluorescence

Unusually Large Flux-Grown Synthetic Sapphire

Fascinating Snakeskin Pattern On A Pen Shell

A Visit to Clarity Diamond’s CVD Facility

Large Treated-Color CVD Laboratory-Grown Diamond Rings

Heliodor And Aquamarine With Surface Etching

Cat’s-Eye Hexagonite

New Emerald Production From The Curlew Mine Western Australia

Gem-Quality Anorthoclase Feldspar From Southeast Vietnam

Laboratory Growth Of Gem Materials And The Attempt To Replicate Nature

Micro-Features Of Tourmaline

Historical Relics Repurposed Into Jewelry

Stellate Cloud In Diamond

Green Amber From Ethiopia

Hairlike Inclusions In Benitoite

Ice Jade From Guatemala

Fissure With Moiré Pattern In Spinel

An Environmental, Social, And Governance Assessment Of Marine Pearl Farming