The New York laboratory reports on a new record size for CVD laboratory-grown diamond.

At the AGTA show, Rod and Nathaniel Cook of Washington Jade (Edmonds, Washington) told us about shifting their focus to cat’s-eye blue and bluish green nephrite jade.

A reported new source of blue zircon in Malawi yields rough material for beautiful finished stones in the gem trade.

Analysis of a transparent yellow angular crystal inclusion in a Brazilian rock crystal quartz host suggests monazite.

Nacreous pearls are known to have platelet growth resembling fingerprints or topographic maps, but a less common appearance is nacre with a concentric spiral pattern.

The Tokyo lab recently identified a unique localized distribution of cloud-like inclusions in a chrysoberyl.

Remarkable “horsetail” inclusions discovered in a demantoid garnet, while their origin and composition remain under discussion.

The Carlsbad lab received a rhodochrosite cabochon featuring rhomboid-shaped fluid inclusions, causing a four-rayed star.

Contributes to the mining history of Austria’s Habachtal region, which is believed to be one of the earliest emerald deposits.