DIAMONDS

• New diamond cuts

COLORED STONES

• Large apatites from Madagascar
• Diaspore from Turkey
• Cat's-eye and trapiche emeralds
• Emerald necklaces fashioned in India
• Garnets from Mali
• Fashioned natural glasses
• Fashioned "rainbow" hematite
• Iolite and other gems from Madagascar
• Iolite and other Orissa gems
• More meteorite products
• Miscellaneous notes on peridot
• "Strawberry" quartz and other Russian gems
• Miscellaneous notes on sapphires
• Sapphires from Tanzania
• Faceted sphalerite and other collector stones from Canada
• Swarovski debuts machine-cut gems
• Topaz and beryl from the Ukraine
• Miscellaneous notes on tourmaline

INSTRUMENTATION

• Inclusion-viewing system
• New magnet for gem testing

SYNTHETICS AND SIMULANTS

• Faceted Kashan synthetic rubies and sapphires
• More Russian synthetics and simulants
• "Recrystallized" synthetics
• Synthetic zincite from Poland
• New source of synthetic emeralds

ENHANCEMENTS

• Diffusion-treated sapphires

Appears on pages 59-71