DIAMONDS

• Royal Asscher cut
• Diamonds in Canada: An update
• Field excursion to Canadian diamond mines
• Diamond presentations at the PDAC conference
• A table with trigons

COLORED STONES AND ORGANIC MATERIALS

• Amber ("Burmite") from Myanmar: Production resumes
• Cat’s-eye amethyst from Brazil
• Brownish red to orange gems from Afghanistan/Pakistan misrepresented as bastnäsite and other materials
• Spinel with clinohumite from Mahenge, Tanzania
• An interesting engraved emerald
• Unusual rutilated quartz
• Important new ruby deposits in eastern Madagascar: Chemistry and internal features
• The new ruby deposits in eastern Madagascar: Mining and production
• Ruby crystal with large mobile gas bubble
• A brownish green sapphire, with pyrochlore inclusions
• Update on the Vortex sapphire mine, Yogo Gulch, Montana
• Canary tourmaline from Malawi
• A bismuth-bearing liddicoatite from Nigeria

SYNTHETICS AND SIMULANTS

• "Jurassic Bugs" amber imitation
• Deceptive assembled diamond imitations from Brazil
• Enamel-backed quartz as a star sapphire imitation

MISCELLANEOUS

• 11th Annual V. M. Goldschmidt Conference
• Gemological conference at the Moscow State Geoprospecting Academy
• A visit to the Harvard tourmaline exhibit

ANNOUNCEMENTS