Mike Breeding
Title: Senior Research Scientist; Manager, Diamond Analytical, Carlsbad, CA
Areas of expertise: diamond defects, treatments and color origin; geochemistry of minerals; gemology and mineralogy of colored stones
Selected Published Research
- The “Type” Classification System of Diamonds and its Importance in Gemology. Gems & Gemology (2009)
- Occurrence of the Si–V defect center in natural colorless gem diamonds. Diamond and Related Materials (2008)
- Slab-derived fluids and quartz-vein formation in an accretionary prism, Otago Schist, New Zealand. Geology (2002)
- Fluid–metasedimentary rock interactions in subduction-zone mélange: implications for the chemical composition of arc magmas. Geology (2004)
- Visible Absorption Spectra of Colored Diamonds. Gems & Gemology (2015)
Education
- Bachelor of science in geology, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia, 1998
- Ph.D in geology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 2004
- Graduate Gemologist, GIA, Carlsbad, California, 2005
View ResearchGate profile
View Google Scholar profile
