•  DIAMONDS
  - APEC 2000 International Jewellery Conference features diamonds, education, and treatments
  - De Beers’s newly stated direction
• COLORED STONES AND ORGANIC MATERIALS
  - Mosaic ammonite
  - Gemmy anhydrite from Iran
  - Aquamarine from southeast India
  - Coral exploration resumes in Hawaii
  - Fresnoite: A first examination
  - Gemological Presentations at the 31st International Geological Congress
  - Visit to a Malagasy lapidary facility
  - Rubies (and sapphires) from Colombia
  - Lavender sugilite with green spots
  - Paraíba tourmaline update
  - Tourmaline with an apparent change-of-color in one pleochroic direction
• SYNTHETICS AND SIMULANTS
  - Magnetic hematite imitation in jewelry
  - Curved quadruplet boulder opal imitations
• MISCELLANEOUS
  - Concave faceting technique developed for sapphires
• ANNOUNCEMENTS
  - Visit Gems & Gemology staff in Tucson
  - GANA exhibit at the Carnegie Museum
  - GAGTL Conference 2000
  - 1st Brazilian Symposium on the Treatment and Characterization of Gems
  - Fabergé exhibit in Tucson
  - Hong Kong International Jewellery Show
  - Diamond exposition in Paris
  - Opal Symposium 2001
  - ICA Congress
  - Geochemistry and Mineralogy of Gemstones Symposium

Gem News Editors:
Mary L. Johnson, John I. Koivula, Shane F. McClure,
and Dino DeGhionno, GIA Gem Trade Laboratory, Carlsbad, California
 
Contributing Editors:
Emmanuel Fritsch, IMN, University of Nantes, France
Henry A. Hänni, SSEF, Basel, Switzerland
Karl Schmetzer, Peterhausen, Germany

Appears on pages 260-274