Gem News International

Spring 2000 Gem News International

Tuscon 2000

Colored Stones and Organic Materials

Amphiboles are Not Necessarily Jade

Chitons in Jewelry

Unusual Copal

Newly Commercial Emerald Deposits in Colombia (La Pita and Polveros)

Some New Examples of Drusy Hematite

Orbicular Jasper from Madagascar

Colorful Nephrite

Tahitian and Australian “Keshi” Pearls

Pyritized Ammonite from Russia, Sliced in a New Way

An Update on Ruby and Sapphire from Chimwadzulu Hill, Malawi

Another Locality in Paraíba for Cuprian Elbaite

Tugtupite and Other Gem Materials from Greenland

Large Faceted Zircon

Also Seen at Tucson (Including Gems & Gemology references)

Pink and blue Madagascar sapphires (Summer 1999, Gem News, pp. 149-150)

Nigerian pink tourmaline and rubellite (Winter 1998 Gem News, pp. 298-299)

Spessartine (Spring 1999 Gem News p. 55; Winter 1999 Gem News, pp. 216-217)

Multicolored sunstone from Oregon (Summer 1997 Gem News, p. 145)

Russian demantoid garnets (Mattice et al., Fall 1999 G&G , pp. 151-152)

Blue opal from Peru (Summer 1991, Gem News, pp. 120-121)

Treatments

Moonstone with Dichroic Backing

New Hues of Dyed Freshwater Cultured Pearls

Heat-Treated Rubies: Glass or not Glass?

Silicon Coating of Drusy Materials

Synthetics and Simulants

Bicolored Synthetic Beryl, Resembling Tourmaline

Miscellaneous

"Floating Diamonds” in Jewelry

Bismuth Egg

Announcements

GIA on the Internet

Faceter’s Symposium 2000

GANA Exhibit in Los Angeles

Jewelry 2000

Tourmaline 2000

Gemstones at Upcoming Scientific Meetings

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