Russell Shor, September 20, 2019
GIA’s services and instruments have grown in importance and impact as new gem treatments and laboratory-grown gems have entered the market.
Read MoreRussell Shor, February 1, 2016
G&G Brief presents an overview of the content of the Winter 2015 issue of Gems & Gemology.
Read MorePaul B. Merkel and Christopher M. Breeding
The authors used Vis-NIR spectral measurements combined with LA-ICP-MS data to investigate the usefulness of absorption spectra.
Read MoreDona M. Dirlam, Brendan M. Laurs, March 1, 2002
Liddicoatite, a calcium-rich lithium tourmaline, was recognised as a separate mineral species in 1977, and named in honour of Richard T. Liddicoat.
Read MoreJohn I. Koivula, Kevin Nagle, Andy Hsi-Tien Shen, and Philip Owens
Several transparent, faceted, blue to blue-green copper-bearing tourmalines containing growth tubes and cracks surrounded by sleeves of pink colour were examined for this report.
Read MoreWilliam B. (Skip) Simmons, et al., June 1, 2005
The Mt. Mica area in southwestern Maine has been mined for tourmaline and other pegmatite gems since the 1820s.
Read MoreDona M. Dirlam
From the Summer 1991 issue of Gems & Gemmology, a summary of important gemmology-related articles published in other journals.
Read MoreJames E. Shigley and Anthony R. Kamp, June 1, 1984
A survey of the current gemmological knowledge of pegmatites, including the gem varieties aquamarine, tourmaline and topaz.
Read MoreMahinda Gunawardene and Mahinda S. Rupasinghe, June 1, 1986
The Elahera gem field currently provides approximately 35% of the gemstones exported from Sri Lanka.
Read MoreBrendan M. Laurs, Thomas W. Overton
This article, from the Winter 2009 issue of Gems & Gemmology, is a compilation of abstracts of important gemmology-related articles published outside of Gems & Gemmology.
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