Asia's Top Chocolate Producers Can't Meet The Growing Demand

No one disagrees. Chocolate consumption is going to only rise and rise.

Useful link:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-27/chocolate-addiction-leaves-asia-with-a-craving-it-can-t-satisfy?srnd=premium-asia

How These Two Entrepreneurs Promote Artisans In Italy

Get to know Elisa Rossi and Serena Spinucci.

Useful links:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/liviahengel/2019/05/27/how-these-two-entrepreneurs-promote-artisans-in-italy/#322c429a6041
https://bymilaner.com

911 Metallurgist Report On Oil, Coal, And Natural Gas

911 Metallurgist has pulled together data from more than a dozen sources to create animated maps showing which countries currently produce the most oil, coal, and natural gas. Take a look.

Project Drawdown

Get to know Project Drawdown, a leading source for climate solutions.

The Apollo Collection

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the July 20, 1969 first manned lunar landing, the Parisian design firm of S.T. Dupont, in collaboration with bronze casting designers 2Saints and master gem artisan Luis Alberto Quispe Aparicio have created a pair of out-of-this world collectibles—two remarkably detailed cigar lighters—under the celestial dome of the Apollo Collection.

Kingdom Of Caves

Quang Binh province in central Vietnam is particularly famous, thanks to the UNESCO-protected Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park -- also known as the Kingdom of Caves. Last year alone, the region welcomed more than 3.9 million visitors, representing an 18.2% uptick compared with the year prior.

Vietnam has some of the best caves in this world. The temperatures are pleasant all year, the jungle scenery is beautiful, there are stunning formations. It's all untouched and pristine -- nothing's been damaged, according to Howard Limbert, technical advisor at the Quang Binh-based Oxalis adventure tour company.

Travel responsibly.

Dubai: Everywhere Is 20 Minutes Away

While the city itself is old, the vast majority has been built over the past 20 years. It certainly comes with a lot of conveniences and wonders, but people living here often find things to complain about. You never have to ask how far someplace is, though; unless you’re going downtown, pretty much everywhere is 20 minutes away, wherever you are. 

Arad was spot on.

Can We Revive Empathy In Our Selfish World?

Humans are world-champion collaborators helping each other far more than any other species. This is our secret weapon.

Useful link:
http://nautil.us/issue/72/quandary/can-we-revive-empathy-in-our-selfish-world

100 Most Creative People In Business

Take note.

Useful link:
https://www.fastcompany.com/most-creative-people/2019

The Ruthless Mercenaries Who Run The Country For Gold

Get to know General Mohamed Hamdan Hemeti Dagolo.

Useful link:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-48987901

The Long, Troubling Tale Of Marange Diamonds

TIA (This is Africa).

Useful link:
https://www.jckonline.com/editorial-article/tale-of-marange-diamonds

Founder Of Startup Watch Company Honors Revolutionary Swiss Ancestor

The Swiss connection. Get to know James Reeves.

Useful link:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/danieldambrosio/2019/05/26/founder-of-startup-watch-company-honors-revolutionary-swiss-ancestor/#4bf6fe2d679d

Reforestation Of The Imagination

The exquisite world created in the new exhibition Reforestation of the Imagination, comes straight from the mind of the Seattle-based artist Ginny Ruffner, who decided to ponder the imponderable—in the aftermath of an apocalyptic mass extinction event, how might life on Earth continue to evolve and thrive? Must visit.

The Double Shift

The podcast The Double Shift documents wide range of working motherhood in America. It’s not about parenting or raising children; it’s about mothers themselves as they balance professional and personal development, painting a nuanced portrait you might not otherwise have encountered. They’re inspirational, complex, and vulnerable but with a dash of edge. Hats off to the podcast founder and host Katherine Goldstein. 

Renew Power

Indian startup ReNew Power, one of India's top unicorns, has a renewable power capacity of 118 GW, the fifth-highest in the world. The government wants that to hit 500 GW by 2030.

Prohibition Partners

Marijuana market according to cannabis industry researcher Prohibition Partners.

Boot ‘Camp’: Met Museum Director Max Hollein On Art, Fashion And Liberace

A unique camp to explore art and fashion.

Useful link:
https://robbreport.com/shelter/art-collectibles/met-camp-notes-on-fashion-2852085

Meet The Women Defining Quebec’s Wine Scene

Sign of the time. Get to know Pascaline Lepeltier.

Useful link:
http://fortune.com/longform/montreal-sommelieres-quebec-wine

Vincent Chaperon

Get to know Vincent Chaperon.

Useful link:
https://robbreport.com/food-drink/wine/dom-perignon-vincent-chaperon-2851868

We Live In A Fake World

Sad, new, distorted reality. Act responsibly.

Useful link:
https://www.axios.com/fake-world-f9bd030e-8638-4278-8c8e-2a518dab018b.html

Museum Of Underwater Art

Created by British sculptor and environmentalist Jason deCaires Taylor, the Museum of Underwater Art (MOUA) will feature partially and fully submerged installations and sculptures that will become sites for coral and marine life regeneration. Take note.

Influencer Confidential

Influencers are publishing more than ever. They published 15 times more editorial posts and eight times more sponsored ads on Instagram in 2018 than they did in 2016. Yet consumers are starting to pay less attention to what they post, according to a new study by social media metrics firm InfluencerDB. The problem is in part due to the influencer ecosystem itself: There are more than 500,000 active influencer accounts publishing posts around the clock. But it’s also a problem born of Instagram’s design. Its simple scrolling feed limits how much we can see at any given moment. So the more influencers post, the more our feeds are made up of white noise, and the easier it is for us to disengage.

Liber Pater

For the past five years, Burgandy’s Romanée-Conti Grand Cru has held the title as the world’s most expensive wine, commanding a whopping $20,510 per bottle. But Bordeaux is about to snatch that honor, with a wine that eclipses that price tag by $13,000. Loïc Pasquet, the man behind Liber Pater, has just announced that each bottle of the 2015 vintage will cost $34,110, more than eight times the price of the estate’s current vintage, which averages about $4,200 per bottle. The release, which will drop in September, is limited to just 550 bottles—only 240 of which will be sold; the rest will be cellared and a few kept for his daughter.

Data-driven Discovery Reveals Earth's Missing Minerals

The quest to uncover the thousands of unknown mineral species should continue. Forever.

Useful link:
http://earth.nautil.us/article/416/data-driven-discovery-reveals-earths-missing-minerals

The Sonoma Pinot Noir Maker That’s Taking A Chance with A New Bubbly

Take note.

Useful link:
https://robbreport.com/food-drink/wine/benovia-winery-2851750

Gold Italy

Mark your calendar: October 26, 2019, in Arezzo, Italy.

Useful link:
https://www.gold-italy.it

AGD Finds 47.61 Carat Deep Lemon Yellow At Grib

Take a look.

Useful links:
https://www.gribdiamonds.be
http://www.idexonline.com/FullArticle?Id=45024

This Is Beirut

Exhibition in Paris: C’est Beyrouth (This Is Beirut), at the Institut des Cultures d’Islam. Must visit.

New Dawn Traders

New Dawn Traders is an experimental business.

Ulysse Nardin

Ulysse Nardin is the latest Swiss watchmaker to announce a temporary retail presence, this one at the Watches of Switzerland boutique in Manhattan’s Soho neighborhood, open now through September. Home to the brand’s major talking pieces—including the limited edition Freak X with marquetry dial, the Freak Vision in rose gold, the full range of the Skeleton X and the Marine Mega Yacht, a $310,000 platinum timepiece whose features echo the design of a luxury yacht—the pop-up is centered around a number of tech-centric experiences powered by the brand’s exclusive Leap Motion software.

Charlotte Voisey

Get to know Charlotte Voisey, a mixologist and the director of brand advocacy for the William Grant & Sons spirits portfolio.

Creating A Sustainable Food Future

A new report looks at what might happen if business continues as usual—and shares a list of 22 things that can happen to tackle the problem, from cutting food waste and improving plant breeding to reducing emissions from cows.

Vacheron Constantin Will Start Using Blockchain To Authenticate Its Timepieces

I hope the brilliant initiative will help combat counterfeiters and authenticity.

Useful link:
https://robbreport.com/style/watch-collector/vacheron-constantin-using-blockchain-to-authenticate-its-watches-2852094

Now You Can Help Rolex Spend Some Of Its Money On A Good Cause

Take note.

Useful link:
https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/news-trends/article/3011350/now-you-can-help-rolex-spend-some-its-money-good-cause

Spring 2019 Auctions: Premium Prices For Historic Pieces

Auction update.

Useful link:
https://www.gia.edu/gia-news-research/spring-2019-auctions-premium-prices-historic-pieces

DIYBlockchain

Herbert R Sim, Founder of Crypto Chain University, most commonly known as The Bitcoin Man, has signed an investment deal of $2.5 million with Indian blockchain startup DIYBlockhain. The startup, which has offices in Mountain View, California, and South Africa, is set to release its revolutionary zero-code Blockchain-as-a-Service (BaaS) product, DIYNucleo, at the RISE Tech Conference 2019 in Hong Kong.

Svalbarði

Get to know Svalbarði, a company that sells $90 bottles of water freshly squeezed from melting Norwegian icebergs.

2019 Gems And Gemology Challenge

The following 25 questions are from the Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter 2018 issues of Gems & Gemology. Refer to the articles in those issues to find the single best answer for each question. Entries must be received no later than Monday, August 12, 2019. All entries will be acknowledged with an e-mail, so please remember to include your name and e-mail address (and please write clearly on mail-in entries). Score 75% or better, and you will receive a certificate of completion (PDF file). Earn a perfect score, and your name also will be listed in the Fall 2019 issue of Gems & Gemology.

Click here to take the Challenge.

Golden Tips Tea

The pricey tea is only available at The Rubens, where diners can sip it while overlooking The Royal Mews at Buckingham Palace. Described as an extraordinary liquor and a smooth, light and mellow texture, with hints of fruity notes, Golden Tips was sourced in collaboration with specialist tea merchants PMD Tea. A pot can be bought alongside the hotel's Royal Afternoon Tea menu, which costs around $55 per person. Once ordered, the serving process involves something of a regal ceremony, which is perhaps just as well giving its staggering price tag.

Bentley Golf Centenary Set

Limited to a production run of just 100, the Bentley Golf Centenary Set seeks to unite the worlds of luxury and craftsmanship with the finest in sports and performance. Inspired by the look of the new Continental GT, each club is finished in black with tasteful Centenary Gold detailing. They also feature the company’s trademark diamond knurling on the grips, lines that reference its iconic haunch styling and replicas of the wheel caps from the EXP Speed 8 that won Le Mans on both the wood heads and grip end caps. Take a look.

Burn The Ice: The American Culinary Revolution And Its End

Burn the Ice: The American Culinary Revolution and Its End, a new book by James Beard Award-winning food journalist Kevin Alexander is a must read.

Cornes

Japanese conglomerate Cornes has bought a minority stake in Green Rocks and Isrough, two lab-grown diamond companies linked to Israel diamond dealer Ofer Mizrahi. Mizrahi, whose natural diamond company, Ofer Mizrahi Diamonds (OMD), has regularly topped Israeli export charts, owns a personal majority stake in Israel diamond grower Isrough, a joint venture with the Israeli Center of Diamond Technologies.

OMD is the majority owner of Green Rocks, an Aventura, Fla., company that wholesales lab-growns to retailers.

Cornes, the new investor, is a Japanese conglomerate that owns a range of businesses, which manufacture everything from luxury cars to kitchenware to diamond reactors through its Seki Diamond Systems division.

Gem Diamonds Recovers 140 Carat Rough Diamond

Gem Diamonds has recovered a white diamond weighing 140 carats, the second over 100 carats it has reported this year. 

It found the high-quality stone on July 6 at its Letšeng mine in Lesotho, the company said Monday. In March, it found a 161-carat white diamond at the deposit. 

The miner recently recovered two yellow diamonds from Letšeng weighing more than 100 carats. It retrieved a 134-carat stone  in March, and another weighing 135-carats last month. 

So far this year, Gem Diamonds has recovered four diamonds over 100 carats. In 2018, it unearthed a total of 15.

Many thanks to Rapaport.

21 Letters On Life And Its Challenges

In 21 Letters on Life and Its Challenges, Charles Handy, 87, is talking to his four grandchildren. His goal is to help them as they are contemplating life’s rich choices. In a life that he acknowledges has seen technology transform lives in unpredictable ways, he focuses on the question that never changes: what it means to be truly human. Must read.

Today’s Traditional Watch Industry Can’t Exist Without What Rolex Is Selling

Spot on.

Useful link:
https://www.ablogtowatch.com/todays-traditional-watch-industry-cant-exist-without-what-rolex-is-selling

What We Call Man-made Diamonds Could Ultimately Determine Their Success

Paul Zimnisky was spot on.

Useful link:
http://www.paulzimnisky.com/what-we-call-man-made-diamonds-could-ultimately-impact-their-success

Wedding Experts Say Engagement Ring Should Cost At Least Three Diamond Miners’ Lives

Over to you.

Useful link:
https://www.theonion.com/wedding-experts-say-engagement-ring-should-cost-at-leas-1834915832

Bregenz Festival

On July 17, the 74th season of Austria's Bregenz Festival will begin, kicking off a monthlong celebration of opera.

The Technology Trap

Carl Frey, author of The Technology Trap: Capital, Labor, and Power in the Age of Automation, suggests the future is already here — and has been for three decades. The only question is how much longer it will last. Must read.

ARcadium

A group of Swiss watchmakers is embarking on a retail experiment that promises to upend any notions of the trade as old-fashioned. Free and open to the public now through July 25th, the immersive retail initiative, called ARcadium, is an experiential pop-up at New York City’s Hudson Yards involving eight storied brands, all owned by the Richemont Group: Cartier, IWC, Jaeger-LeCoultre, Montblanc, Panerai, Piaget, Vacheron Constantin and Van Cleef & Arpels.

Oil Market Report

Take a look at the International Energy Agency’s latest Oil Market Report.

World’s First AI-Generated Whiskey Coming Later This Year

Let the consumers decide.

Useful link:
https://www.barrons.com/articles/worlds-first-ai-generated-whiskey-coming-later-this-year-01558639896?mod=hp_minor_pos26

Young Consumers Have More Of A Negative Association With Diamonds

Consumer sentiment is very important. With time tastes and priorities change.

Useful link:
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/young-consumers-negative-association-with-diamonds-162641254.html

Sarine Introduces 3D-origin Accurate Model Of Original Rough Diamond

A new innovative sales tool for retailers.

Useful link:
http://www.idexonline.com/FullArticle?Id=44847

Fête des Vignerons In Vevey, Switzerland

The 3 week long event is held only once a generation. Take note wine lovers.

Useful links:
https://robbreport.com/food-drink/wine/fete-des-vignerons-wine-festival-2855394
https://www.fetedesvignerons.ch

Aquafil

Prada's latest project is turning plastics and fishing nets collected from the ocean into a series of brand new bags. Called Re-Nylon, the project is part of the fashion industry’s broader effort to invest in sustainable alternatives. For Prada, a brand that owes some portion of its success to its nylon bags, using an eco-friendly form of the material makes perfect sense. The bags in the Re-Nylon line are made from Econyl, a material developed by a textile yarn producer called Aquafil. The company blends waste pulled from the ocean with textile waste, upcycling harmful pollutants into a useful fabric. Aquafil claims that the process it uses to make Econyl means the material can be recycled indefinitely, with no loss of quality.

Tossebageriet

Swedes have always been big on taking an afternoon break for a cup of coffee and traditional Swedish pastries such as biskvi or kanelbullar (cinnamon buns). Visit this local traditional bakery to sample the best of Swedish fika cuture which has born international imitation throughout the world.

The Last Annual Argyle Pink Diamonds Tender

Rio Tinto has launched what’s likely to be one of its last annual pink-diamond tenders, as the company gears up to close its flagship Argyle mine. 

The Argyle Pink Diamonds Tender, which has run since 1984, comprises rare polished colored diamonds originating from the mine in Australia. This year’s edition, which Rio Tinto unveiled Friday at the mine site, features 64 stones weighing a combined 56.28 carats, including three fancy-red diamonds. 

The deposit is due to shut next year, having operated since 1983. It’s the world’s largest diamond mine by volume, producing 14.1 million carats in 2018. Most of its output is lower-quality white diamonds, but it’s more famous for its pink, red and purple goods. More than 90% of the world’s rare pink diamonds are from the mine, according to Rio Tinto. 

“Rio Tinto’s Argyle mine is the first and only ongoing source of rare pink diamonds in history,” Arnaud Soirat, Rio Tinto’s CEO for copper and diamonds, said in a statement Friday. “With the life cycle of this extraordinary mine approaching its end, we have seen, and continue to see, unstoppable demand for these truly limited-edition diamonds, and strong value appreciation.” 

The closure is likely to have a “dramatic” effect on the availability of pink diamonds, Soirat noted in an interview with Bloomberg on Friday. “You can imagine the laws of supply and demand will apply, and you can imagine the impact that will have on those very rare pink, red, blue and purple diamonds,” the news service quoted Soirat as saying. 

The top items at this year’s sale include a modified radiant, 1.75-carat, fancy-red diamond, named the Enigma, and a heart-shaped, 1.48-carat, fancy-vivid-purplish-pink diamond called Amari. The company has named the 2019 collection “The Quest for the Absolute.” It will showcase the diamonds in Hong Kong, New York and Perth, Australia, with bids closing on October 9. 

The top six lots — the “hero diamonds” — are as follows: 

Lot 1: The Argyle Enigma, a modified radiant, 1.75-carat, fancy-red diamond.

Lot 2: The Argyle Amari, a heart-shaped, 1.48-carat fancy-vivid-purplish-pink diamond.

Lot 3: The Argyle Elysian, a modified cushion-shaped, 1.20-carat, fancy-vivid-pink diamond.

Lot 4: The Argyle Verity, an oval-shaped, 1.37-carat, fancy-vivid-purplish-pink diamond.

Lot 5: The Argyle Opus, a round-shaped, 2.01-carat, fancy-intense-pink diamond.
 
Lot 6: The Argyle Avenoir, an oval-shaped, 1.07-carat, fancy-red diamond.

Many thanks to Rapaport.

I Am Not A Wedding Photographer

I Am Not A Wedding Photographer is showing at the Martin Parr Foundation until 10 August, 2019. A book of the same name, published by the Martin Parr Foundation and RRB, is available now. Take note.

Random Thoughts

Life is finite. When you put yourself in that space, you realize how small you are—not just physically, but in relation to the universe. All of us are just something that ends up in a box someday.

Stinessen Arkitektur

Get to know architect Snorre Stinessen of Stinessen Arkitektur.

Nina Metayer

Why are all those croissants, tarts, soufflés and crème brûlées in Paris so good? Pastry chef Nina Metayer says it has something to do with an utter devotion to the craft. Spot on.

DiaCam360

Automation in diamond grading has arrived. Thanks to AI and Deep Learning.

Useful link:
http://www.idexonline.com/FullArticle?Id=44846

Are Millennial Couples Buying Lab-grown Bridals?

Most probably. Take a look at the MVI Marketing report.

Useful link:
http://www.idexonline.com/FullArticle?Id=44842

Diamond-Related Cryptocurrency Scam

Consumers and investors beware. There are more surprises for the greedy.

Useful link:
https://www.nationaljeweler.com/independents/crime/7749-sec-pulls-the-plug-on-diamond-related-cryptocurrency-scam

Anchorage

Get to know Anchorage, a startup that secures cryptocurrency holdings for institutional investors.

A Three-stone Ring From Omi Privé

Take a look.

Useful links:
https://www.nationaljeweler.com/fashion/style/7885-piece-of-the-week-this-green-goodness-from-omi-prive
https://www.omiprive.com

A Diamond Explorer

A fascinating story. Must listen.

Useful links:
https://lithoquest.com
https://www.proactiveinvestors.co.uk/companies/news/223707/coffee-with-samso---episode-006---lithoquest-a-diamond-explorer-223707.html

Functional Bitcoin Watch

Get to know Franck Muller.

Useful link:
https://www.jckonline.com/editorial-article/franck-muller-bitcoin-watch

Martin Rapaport: Synthetic Ethics

Martin Rapaport was spot on. There is an identity crisis and no easy solutions.

Useful link:
https://www.diamonds.net/News/NewsItem.aspx?ArticleID=63732&ArticleTitle=Martin%2bRapaport%253a%2bSynthetic%2bEthics

Synthetics Could Get Sustainability Badge

A brilliant step in the right direction. For consumers their choices could match their values.

Useful link:
https://www.diamonds.net/News/NewsItem.aspx?ArticleID=63733&ArticleTitle=Synthetics%2bCould%2bGet%2bSustainability%2bBadge

Panerai

While the four new models in Panerai’s 1940s-inspired Radiomir collection are not likely to ever see battle, the brand has outfitted them with matte green dials with a distinctly militaristic aesthetic in a nod to its heritage as a WWII-era supplier to the Royal Italian Navy. Built at the Panerai Manufacture in Neuchâtel, Switzerland, the pieces hark back to a time when the brand was used by the frogman commandos of the Italian Navy’s First Submarine Group Command, elite military divers who required accurate timekeepers to detonate bombs and synchronize daring underwater missions. The monochrome shade of green chosen for the dials belongs to a long tradition of using green on uniforms and gear, in order to stay camouflaged on the battlefield.

Millapani

The Lukutuwe collection from Millapani embody the work of two designers inspired by the heritage of their South American home. Growing up in Santiago, Chile, sisters Alexis and Tati Thiele earned their love for jewelry through their mother, a neuropsychologist who dabbled in jewelry-making as a hobby. While the sisters grew to take separate journeys—Alexis in Santiago to study architecture, Tati to Texas for interior design—their roads led to Millapani, the company born in Los Angeles in 2016.

The Hard-Luck Texas Town That Bet On Bitcoin—And Lost

Bitcoin 101 lesson.

Useful link:
https://www.wired.com/story/hard-luck-texas-town-bet-bitcoin-lost

Will Graff’s Knot Collection Stand The Test Of Time?

Most likely.

Useful links:
https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/watches-jewellery/article/3017844/will-graffs-knot-collection-stand-test-time
https://www.graff.com

How Jeff Koons’s Rabbit Became Big Game

It is. Art dealers and the art market are translucent to opaque. No one knows for sure what goes on behind the scene.

Useful link:
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/how-jeff-koonss-rabbit-became-big-game

Is Modern Life Poisoning Me? I Took The Tests To Find Out

We need to be aware of what's in the products and then make informed decisions.

Useful link:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/may/22/is-modern-life-poisoning-me-i-took-the-tests-to-find-out

The Brilliant Work Of A Diamond Grader

Diamond graders are a unique breed.

Useful link:
http://www.bbc.com/capital/gallery/20190522-the-brilliant-work-of-a-diamond-grader

Perfect Day

Perfect Day's new ice cream, which will be available in a limited edition of samples for consumers to order online beginning today, is a demonstration of what a future product may be.

Modernist Bread

Myhrvold’s latest tome, Modernist Bread, digs not into the modernist world of fog and foams, but the uber-traditional world of bread. Though it may not seem like the logical next step, Myhrvold is passionate about the idea of taking something so rooted in the old and finding a way to innovate. Take note.

How To Win In A Winner Take All World

The book How to Win in a Winner-Take-All World by Neil Irwin, a senior economics correspondent at the New York Times, is a useful guide on how to turn all the messiness of career fits, starts, twists, and turns into an advantage. Must read.

Responsible Sourcing For Small Jewellers

Consultancy Levin Sources has recently launched a new service that will help smaller enterprises navigate the tricky pathway to ensuring their products are sustainable and ethically sourced.

The new service, Responsible Sourcing for Small Jewellers, provides a step-by-step bespoke method to small business owners in the jewelry space, assisting them with everything from assessing their current policies to establishing responsible sourcing practices to improving their storytelling strategy to inform customers about these changes.

The service aims to bring companies into compliance with Responsible Jewellery Council, Fairtrade, and Fairmined standards, as well as the CRAFT code. Levin Sources also helps jewelers assess their impact towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Once Upon A Time In Hollywood

A black comedy film by Quentin Tarantino.

Useful link:
https://www.onceuponatimeinhollywood.movie

Fossil Insect In Opal

A most unusual opal with rare inclusion.

Useful link:
https://www.gia.edu/gems-gemology/spring-2019-microworld-fossil-insect-in-opal

Low-Fe, High-V Color-Change Burmese Sapphire

A unique gem chemistry profile.

Useful link:
https://www.gia.edu/gems-gemology/spring-2019-labnotes-low-fe-high-v-color-change-burmese-sapphire

Will Gemologists Survive Automation?

Time will tell. It's definitely a wake up call for all the gemological institutes and gem testing laboratories in the world.

Useful link:
https://www.diamonds.net/News/NewsItem.aspx?ArticleID=63920&ArticleTitle=Will+Gemologists+Survive+Automation%3f

Random Thoughts

History has shown, when a country’s government resorts to the endless printing of money, its economy goes into hyperinflation mode and the currency of that country becomes worthless. When that day comes, gold, in dollar terms, will go through the roof. But to me, the pages of history are beginning to look like the proverbial writing on the wall. So think of gold as insurance. Not an investment. Having some amount never hurts.

Largest Square Cushion-Cut Tsavorite

Take a look.

Useful link:
https://www.gia.edu/gems-gemology/spring-2019-gemnews-largest-square-cushion-cut-tsavorite

Faint Green HPHT Synthetic Diamonds

Consumers beware.

Useful link:
https://www.gia.edu/gems-gemology/spring-2019-labnotes-faint-green-hpht-synthetic-diamonds

Studies On Tourmaline, Sapphire, Cultured Pearl, And A Reliquary Of Legend

A must read for gem dealers and gemologists.

Useful link:
https://www.gia.edu/gems-gemology/spring-2019-editorial

Condor Agate From Argentina

Take a look.

Useful link:
https://www.gia.edu/gems-gemology/spring-2019-microworld-condor-agate-from-argentina

Colombian Emeralds And Mozambican Rubies From Fura Gems

Consumers are entering the decade of color, and the world is going to see more colored stones.

Useful link:
https://www.gia.edu/gems-gemology/spring-2019-gemnews-colombian-emeralds-and-mozambican-rubies-from-fura-gems

Witnessing The 56th Myanma Gems Emporium

A unique place for price discovery. Priceless experience.

Useful link:
https://www.gia.edu/gia-news-research/witnessing-the-56th-myanma-gems-emporium

Out Of The World Jewelry Pieces

Hats off the master craftsmen who designed the pieces.

Useful link:
https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/watches-jewellery/article/3010514/5-yellow-jewellery-pieces-lend-kanye-west-and-kim

Crowther Lab

On this new global map, huge swaths of land are dotted in green pixels. These are the areas that could potentially be recovered with forests that have disappeared, according to a new study—and in total, could help capture as much as two-thirds of the carbon that humans have pumped into the atmosphere since the industrial revolution.

Channeling The Ivy League Helped A Maori Tribe Earn $1.3 Billion

Get to know Ngai Tahu.

Useful link:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-21/channeling-the-ivy-league-helped-a-maori-tribe-earn-1-3-billion?srnd=premium-asia

What Should You Know Before You Buy Your First Luxury Patek Philippe Watch?

Check out some of the basic information you should know before going out to buy one.

Useful link:
https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/watches-jewellery/article/3011064/what-should-you-know-you-buy-your-first-luxury

Firestone Diamonds Finds 54-carat Fancy Yellow Diamond

The diamond will go on sale at the company's next tender in September, 2019.

Useful link:
https://www.firestonediamonds.com

Body Electric Tattoo

Get to know Brian Keith Thompson.

Useful links:
https://www.briankeiththompson.com
https://www.forbes.com/sites/bethbernstein/2019/07/08/the-ear-party-continues/#1890c3355530

Cindy Chao On Her Masterpieces, Inspiration And Vision

Being authentic works.

Useful link:
https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/people-events/article/3010255/taiwan-born-jewellery-designer-cindy-chao-her