DIAMONDS

• Report from the 2nd World Diamond Conference, Vancouver
• Diamonds from Copeton, Australia

COLORED STONES AND ORGANIC MATERIALS

• Maxixe-type green-blue beryls with eye-visible pleochroism
• Coloration of morganite from Pala, California
• Vanadium-colored beryl from China
• Mini-faults in chalcedony
• Recent gem discoveries in Pala, California
• A statuette containing a large natural blister pearl
• Exceptional carpet shell pearl
• Tahitian “keshi” cultured pearls
• Pearl culturing in northwest Australia
• Green powellite from Chile
• Anhydrite inclusion in a ruby from Myanmar
• Ruby and sapphire mining at Barrington Tops, Australia
• Renewed mining for rubies in Nanyaseik, northern Myanmar.
• “Spider” quartz
• Blue-to-green tourmaline from Nigeria
• Nigeria as a new source of copper-manganese-bearing tourmaline
• More on liddicoatite from Nigeria

SYNTHETICS AND SIMULANTS

• Laboratory-grown orange-to-yellow “langasite”
• Laboratory-grown pink SrLaGa3O7, a material related to “langasite”
• An unusual “crystal” of synthetic ruby from Sri Lanka
• A rare medieval sapphire imitation