DIAMONDS

• Diamond with mobile diamond inclusion
• Update on Russian diamond mining
• Spy ship looks for diamonds

COLORED STONES

• Cat's-eye apatites from Madagascar
• "Eilat stone" from Israel and Peru
• Six-rayed star emerald
• Faceted genthelvite: A gemological first
• "Drusy" hausmannite
• Costa Rican jade museum
• Green opal from Serbia
• "Deep" quartz from Africa
• Egyptian green quartz
• Quartz with "hematite" inclusions
• Aromatic resin necklace: A form of myrrh?
• Update on Mong Hsu ruby
• Rubies and sapphires from North Carolina
• Purple scapolite from Tajikistan
• Large spinel from Tajikistan
• Color-change zircons

ENHANCEMENTS

• Impregnated malachite

SYNTHETICS AND SIMULANTS

• Unusual color-zoned synthetic amethyst
• More on Czochralski "pulled" synthetic sapphires
• Tanzanite-colored synthetic sapphire
• Natural and synthetic quartz "constructs"

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Appears on pages 204-216