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Fall 2005, Volume 41, Issue 3

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DIAMONDS

  • Gem mosaics of faceted diamonds.

COLORED STONES AND ORGANIC MATERIALS

  • An unusual emerald with conical growth features.
  • Fuchsite-corundum rock from Bahia, Brazil.
  • Pen shell pearls—nacreous and non-nacreous.
  • New sapphires from Tamil Nadu, India.
  • Tenebrescent scapolite from Afghanistan.

INCLUSIONS IN GEMS

  • “Medusa quartz” with gilalite inclusions.

SYNTHETICS AND SIMULANTS

  • Fake aquamarine crystals from Mogok.
  • More faked inclusions in Brazilian quartz.
  • Fibrolite (sillimanite) dyed and impregnated to imitate ruby.

CONFERENCE REPORTS

  • Applied Diamond Conference 2005.
  • Goldschmidt05.

MISCELLANEOUS

  • Historic U.S. sapphire and benitoite mines close.

IN MEMORIAM: Cornelius S. Hurlbut, Jr. (1906–2005)

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