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Queensland Boulder Opal

Richard W. Wise, March 1, 1993

After almost 75 years of inactivity, the deposits of boulder opal in Queensland, Australia, began to attract new interest in the 1960s and 1970s.

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Abstracts; Summer 2009

Brendan M. Laurs, Thomas W. Overton

This article, from the Summer 2009 issue of Gems & Gemmology, is a compilation of abstracts of important gemmology-related articles published outside of Gems & Gemmology.

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Chrysoprase and Prase Opal from Haneti, Central Tanzania
Chrysoprase and Prase Opal from Haneti, Central Tanzania

James E. Shigley, Brendan M. Laurs, and Nathan D. Renfro

Commercial quantities of gem-quality chrysoprase and green prase opal (nickel-bearing chalcedony and common opal, respectively) have been recovered from altered serpentinite deposits near Haneti, Tanzania.

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The internal structures of natural pearls from the marine mollusk Pinctada maxima are the subject of the lead article in this issue. The scattered loose pearls on the cover are from Paspaley’s natural pearl collection, which includes one discovered in the 1970s at the Eighty Mile Beach fishing grounds
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