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A Gem Dealer’s Journal

Reversible Twinning In Neodymium Pentaphosphate

Unknown Inclusion In Triphane Spodumene

Mexican Opal With Large Fluid Inclusion

Dioptase In And On Quartz

Lazurite In Spinel

Plume Agate From Iran

Iridescent Tabasco Geode

Native Copper Inclusions In Indonesian Purple Chalcedony

Fossil Insect In Opal

Lepidocrocite In Boulder Opal

Microscopic Observations Of Blue Sapphires Treated With Heat And Pressure

Gilalite Altered To Cuprite In Quartz

Opal From West Java, Indonesia

New Plastic Imitation Opal From Kyocera

Vesuvianite In Burmese Ruby

Update On Dyed Hydrophane Opal

“Flower In The Rain” Inclusion In Sri Lankan Sapphire

Colorful Chatoyant Glass

Big Sky Country Sapphire: Visiting Montana’s Alluvial Deposits