Gems & Jewellery

In 2009 Gems & Jewellery will be circulated to all members in January, April, July and October.

Regular features include:

  • Around the Trade
  • Gems and Minerals
  • Hands-on Gemmology
  • Museum and Exhibition news
  • Saleroom News
  • Jewellery
  • Stone Scoop

Single issues of the latest Gems & Jewellery are available at £5.00 per issue (postage and packaging included UK only). Contributions are welcomed.

October 2009 Issue

Included in the october issue of Gems & Jewellery:

  • Gem-A Conference and Graduation Ceremony: reports and photographs.
  • Stones offered as natural red spinels found to be flux synthetics.
  • Organics are not necessarily durable, they are usually a lot less valuable than minerals and they are not particularly rare. So Maggie Campbell Pedersen asks the question: “Why do we bother with organics?”
  • Demantoid from a new source in Madagascar.
  • Little has been published previously about processes used to laser-inscribe diamonds.  Discover the procedure used by Bauer Gemmological Laboratories and problems that can arise.
  • We live if interesting times: Harry Levy looks at the current state of the gem and jewellery trade.
  • A pretty useless fancy: Jack Ogden reports on a remarkable manuscript written more than 300 years ago which pre-empts modern diamond grading methodology.
  • Gem and Jewellery Fairs: highlights of IJL and the Hong Kong Jewellery and Gem Fair.

If you would like to advertise in Gems & Jewellery, or would like to know the next copy date, please contact Mary Burland at mary.burland@gem-a.com for further information. 

Gems & Jewellery, October 2009, Vol 18 No 4
Gems & Jewellery, October 2009, Vol 18 No 4
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