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.