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Tucson 2022 Overview
Sellers and buyers alike were delighted to be back at Tucson for the show season after a two-year absence.

Skull Carved of Meteorite
Four-billion-year-old meteorite carved into a life-sized human skull draws attention at the 2022 AGTA show.
Deep-Focus Earthquakes: The Heartbeat of a Diamond Factory?
The first installment of this column explores the potential role of modern-day deep-focus earthquakes on diamond growth.

Stephen M. Avery: Celebrating Half a Century in Gem Cutting
Approaching his 50th anniversary in the business, Stephen M. Avery (Lakewood, Colorado) reflected on his journey to becoming an award-winning lapidary artist, detailing his signature cuts and gem sets and offering advice to up-and-coming gemstone cutters.

Conversation with True Blue Opals and Gems
At the AGTA show, we spoke with Natassa Patel, who along with her mother, Salma, owns and operates True Blue Opals and Gems.

Custom Knives by Loren Feldman
Custom knife maker Loren Feldman details his craft, including his use of rare and fascinating materials such as gem dinosaur bone and meteorites.

Fifth Annual Gianmaria Buccellati Foundation Award Winner
Meghan Simmons, a graduate of GIA’s Jewelry Design program at the Carlsbad campus, received the fifth annual Gianmaria Buccellati Foundation Award for Excellence in Jewelry Design.

Gem Topaz from the Schneckenstein Crag, Saxony, Germany: Mineralogical Characterization and Luminescence
Characterizes yellow topaz from this historical source, with particular emphasis on its photo luminescence behavior.

Yellow Topaz from Germany, Emerald Mining in Austria’s Habachtal Region, a Return to Tucson, and More…
An overview of the Spring 2022 Gems & Gemology content.

Blue Sapphire Lord of the Rings Pendant
After 15 years in the making, Jeffrey Bilgore’s stunning blue sapphire pendant makes its debut at the AGTA show.

Rainbow Graining in Diamond
One of the more subtle inclusion scenes gemologists sometimes observe in natural diamonds is the presence of crystallographically oriented structural defects known as “internal graining.”

Color-Zoned Cat’s-Eye Chrysoberyl
The Tokyo lab recently identified a unique localized distribution of cloud-like inclusions in a chrysoberyl.




