COLORED STONES AND ORGANIC MATERIALS

• Using cucumbers to unearth dendritic agates in central India
• Fluorite impersonating blue color-change garnet
• Colorless forsterite from Mogok, Myanmar
• Colorless forsterite from Tajikistan
• Natural impregnation of a rock by copper minerals
• Update on the John Saul ruby mine, Kenya
• Ruby and other gems from Nanyaseik, Myanmar
• An interesting zoned sapphire crystal from Winza, Tanzania
• A tourmaline crystal within a crystal
• Tourmaline from Muva, Mozambique

INCLUSIONS IN GEMS

• Two unusual aquamarines
• An interesting rose quartz from Madagascar
• Scapolite with diopside inclusions
• Spodumene from Afghanistan with unusual inclusions

SYNTHETICS AND SIMULANTS

• Two interesting synthetic rubies

MISCELLANEOUS

• Update on U.S.-Myanmar import restrictions

ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Gems & Gemology wins two major awards