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GIA’s services and instruments have grown in importance and impact as new gem treatments and laboratory-grown gems have entered the market.
Read MoreThese red, pink and orange hued gems evoke passion and excitement – and are sure-fire accessories for sultry summer days.
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Once upon a time, gem cutting was a strict craft bound by centuries of tradition. Then Bernd Munsteiner (b. 1943) invented the fantasy cut.
Read MoreThe Mt. Mica area in southwestern Maine has been mined for tourmaline and other pegmatite gems since the 1820s.
Read MoreLiddicoatite, a calcium-rich lithium tourmaline, was recognised as a separate mineral species in 1977, and named in honour of Richard T. Liddicoat.
Read More“Paraíba” tourmalines continue to be recovered in small amounts from north-eastern Brazil.
Read MoreTourmalines from an alluvial deposit near Lundazi in Zambia consist of colour-zoned pink/colourless/yellow-green “watermelon” nodules.
Read MoreInclusions of native copper and tenorite (CuO) were found in greyish-green elbaite from São José da Batalha, Paraíba, Brazil.
Read MoreUnusually vivid tourmalines from the state of Paraiba, in north-eastern Brazil, have attracted great interest since they first appeared on the international gem market in 1989.
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