DIAMONDS

• Argyle upgrades operation
• De Beers's rough diamond sales up
• Diamond pipes located outside Canada's "Corridor of Hope"
• More evidence that Wisconsin diamonds come from Canadian pipes
• Update on Ghana production
• Russia offers rough for sale...
• ...and develops diamond-cutting equipment
• Production plant upgrade for Zimbabwe
• Near-colorless Russian synthetic diamond examined

COLORED STONES

• Amber marketed with photomicrography
• Basel Fair highlights
• Fluorite from California
• Gem artistry knows no boundaries
• Green gems from Australia
• Myanmar liberalizes gem trading
• Freshwater pearls from Bangladesh
• Tiger's-eye quartz production record in South Africa
• Cat's-eye sillimanite from Orissa, India
• "Wagon wheel" tanzanite
• Bicolored topaz
• "Zebra" stones from Australia

ENHANCEMENTS

• New emerald treatment/polishing systems from Israel

SYNTHETICS AND SIMULANTS

• New emerald imitation
• Kimberley expands product line
• Minute "machine-cut" synthetics
• Faceted synthetic opal
• Bright yellow "pulled" synthetic sapphires

ANNOUNCEMENTS

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