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Awards
Branding
Buying
Colored stones (by name)
Cutting and carving
Education and reference
Estate and antique pieces
History and significance
Identification
Inclusions and phenomena
Mining
Origin, determining
Photographing
Polishing
Selling
Setting
Simulants and synthetics
Treatment and disclosure
Trends, design
Trends, market


Awards

3/05: Traditional Value

2/05: The Full Spectrum

2/04: Cavalcade of Color

8/03: AGTA Announces Spectrum Plans

2/03: AGTA's Cutting Edge Awards Honor Creativity

1/03: AGTA Spectrum Awards 2003

3/02: PGI, AGTA Honor Innovative Design

2/02: AGTA Spectrum & Cutting Edge Honors

2/01: Color Cavalcade

10/00: Color Therapy

8/00: Fanciful Lapidary

2/00: Creative Color

5/99: JA Design Winners

2/99: 1999 Spectrum Award Winners

10/98: Cutting Edge: Field of Dreams

2/98: Web Cut Captures Judges

Branding

2/05: The Future is Green

10/04: Branding with a Conscience

9/02: Stone Fortress

3/01: Can Gemstones Be Branded?

6/00: Branding Gemstones

Buying

1/03: Gems, Pronto!

4/02: Coyote Crossing

1/02: Tucson Teaser

1/01: Tackling Tucson

Colored stones (by name)

agate


9/03: Home on the Range


11/99: Turning a New Leaf

alexandrite


3/05: Rare Gifts


11/04: Phenomenal Magician


1/02: Tucson Teaser

amber


11/99: Consortium Promotes Amber for a New Millennium


7/98: Time Travelers

amethyst


1/05: Professional Jeweler's Gem of the Year: Quartz


10/04: Gemstone Staples


10/01: Purple Haze


7/00: Rorschach Test Inclusion


11/98: Heated Amethyst and Citrine (Treated Gems, Pt. 6)


7/98: All-American Beauties


6/98: Old Faithfuls Return

ametrine


6/04: A Tree Runs Through It


6/04: Ametrine's New Face

aquamarine


1/02: Tucson Teaser


11/01: Aqua Prices Strong, Ruby Steady


10/98: Heated Aquamarine (Treated Gems, Pt. 5)

benitoite


9/02: Bright Light, Benitoite


6/99: Cold Feet on Benitoite


2/98: Benitoite Mine on the Market

bixbite (red emerald)


6/99: The Case for Red Emerald

calcite


3/98: Rare Inclusion in a Rare Calcite

chalcedony


7/00: the Dyeing of Chalcedony

chrysoberyl


2/98: Radioactive Gem Alert

citrine


1/05: Professional Jeweler's Gem of the Year: Quartz


10/04: Gemstone Staples


2/02: Postal Service Irradiation May Affect Some Gems


9/01: Orange Sun Rising


11/99: Trick? It's Definitely a Treat


11/98: Heated Amethyst and Citrine (Treated Gems, Pt. 6)


6/98: Old Faithfuls Return


2/98: Web Cut Captures Judges

coral


8/03: The Sea's Vanishing Gift


3/03: Land & Sea

demantoid


9/00: A Horse Tale


5/99: Demantoid Desire

diaspore


6/99: The Deal with Diaspore

diopside


9/02: Stone Fortress

emerald


2/05: The Future is Green


11/03: Brazilian Green Fever


10/03: Go, Emeralds!


12/02: Yukon Green


6/02: Facets of North Carolina


4/02: Emerald City, NC


3/02: Emerald Czar Released from Jail


1/01: Salt of the Earth


5/00: Judging the Amount of Emerald Filler


3/00: Horn of Plenty


11/99: On the Trail of Emerald Fillers


10/99: Hiddenite Treasures


7/99: Highly Classified


7/99: Seeking Answers


7/99: Unmasking the Flaws


6/99: Emeralds from Paradise


6/99: The Case for Red Emerald


5/99: Emerald Detectives


4/99: Emerald Dilemma: We're Not in Kansas Anymore


4/99: New Emerald Treatment at the Source


8/98: Mine Sale Could Mean More Emeralds


6/98: Emerald Education (Treated Gems, Pt. 1)


6/98: Filling a Need


5/98: Emerald in the Spotlight


5/98: Production and Trading


4/98: Treatment Tracer


4/98: Zambia's Deep Green

garnet


11/04: Phenomenal Magician


7/03: Colorful Garnet Packages


1/02: Tucson Teaser


10/01: Purple Haze


9/01: Orange Sun Rising


6/01: True Green


10/00: Mirage Inclusion


9/00: A Horse Tale


4/00: Watermelon Garnets

jade


10/03: Jaded Dreams

iolite


10/01: Purple Haze


2/00: Natural Alternative

jade, nephrite


10/01: Bountiful Black

jadeite


11/02: Heaven-Sent Jade


1/01: Demand Rises for Fine Jadeite

liddicoatite


7/00: Liddi-Coat of Many Colors

moonstone


4/04: Full-Moon Fever


1/99: Marvelous Moonstones

opal


1/04: In Brief


9/01: A River Runs Through It


7/00: Got Milk?


2/00: Aussie Opals on Dials


12/99: Phenomenal Opal


5/99: Opal Nodule


8/98: Opals? Oh, Please!

peridot


8/02: The Greening of America


8/01: Green Party


4/00: Lilliputian Lily Pads


8/99: The Great Pretender


12/98: Peridot Supply Saga


6/98: Old Faithfuls Return

pyrite


12/99: When Fool's Gold Marries Quartz

quartz


4/05: Pink Adventurescence


1/05: Phantom!


1/05: Professional Jeweler's Gem of the Year: Quartz


1/05: Quartz Inclusions


9/01: Gympie Gold in Quartz


11/00: A Slice of the Wild West


11/00: Trapped During Construction


7/00: the Dyeing of Chalcedony


6/00: Like a Tree


12/99: When Fool's Gold Marries Quartz

rainbow calsilica


9/03: Something, Over the Rainbow

rubellite


11/99: Red, Red Rubellite, Blue Sapphire Popular

ruby


4/05: Smithsonian Star


3/05: A Ruby with Heart


3/05: Labs Issue Ruby Alerts


9/03: U.S. Bans Products from Myanmar


3/02: Corundum Conundrum


11/01: Aqua Prices Strong, Ruby Steady


10/01: Study in Red


8/01: Madagascar Ruby Rush


6/01: Real Beauties


12/00: Ranking Ruby Treatment


3/00: Horn of Plenty


6/99: Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star


2/99: Fissure-Filled Rubies (Treated Gems, Pt. 8)


7/98: Ruby Enhancement Education (Treated Gems, Pt. 2)


7/98: The Death of Kashan

sapphire


12/04: Flush Setting Trillion Sapphires


7/04: GIA and AGTA Finalize Treated Sapphire Identification


1/04: More Treated Blue Sapphires Show Up Daily


1/04: Nesting Spot for the Heart


1/04: Sapphire: Gemstone of the Year


12/03: AGTA Describes Emerging Sapphire Treatment


11/03: Checking Sapphires for Beryllium Diffusion


9/03: U.S. Bans Products from Myanmar


6/03: Sapphire Spectrum


5/03: Cranking Up the Heat


4/03: Code Orange, Yellow, Blue and Red... for Corundum


3/03: Beryllium Diffusion & Disclosure


7/02: Melting Pot


4/02: A Diffuse Description


3/02: Corundum Conundrum


2/02: Postal Service Irradiation May Affect Some Gems


1/02: Tucson Teaser


7/01: The Sapphire Within


6/01: Singing the Blues


5/01: The Supply and Demand Blues


9/00: Australia's Colorful Sapphires


8/00: Fingerprints in Sapphire


5/00: Behind the Hazy Look


5/00: Pinking Up


3/00: Horn of Plenty


2/00: From Mine Site to Web Site


1/00: Origin of the Species


11/99: Red, Red Rubellite, Blue Sapphire Popular


5/99: Simply Sapphire


8/98: Heated Sapphire (Treated Gems, Pt. 3)


2/98: Madagascar's Blues

spessartite


1/02: Tucson Teaser


9/01: Orange Sun Rising


5/01: Gems of a Feather

spinel


1/02: Tucson Teaser


3/00: Spinel Galaxy

sunstone


5/01: Mystery Glitter


7/98: All-American Beauties

tanzanite


12/02: Birth of a Birthstone


8/02: Tiffany and Zale Resume Tanzanite Sales


5/02: Tanzanite Sleuth


3/02: Tanzanite Warranties Announced in Tucson


3/02: The Lessons of Tanzanite


1/02: Rough Cuts [cartoon series]


1/02: Tanzanite Linked to al Qaeda


7/01: Tanzanite Takes a Hit


6/01: Singing the Blues


5/01: The Supply and Demand Blues


7/00: Tanzanite Futures


2/00: Natural Alternative


11/99: Testing for Tanzanite


9/99: Treated Tanzanite (Selling Treated Gems, Pt. 11)


5/99: Newsbyte: Tanzanite Simulant


3/99: Tanzanite Rising


6/98: 105 Die in Tanzanite Mine Floods


6/98: Out of East Africa

topaz


10/04: Gemstone Staples


5/01: Gems of a Feather


5/99: Orange and Pink Topaz (Treated Gems, Pt. 10)


3/99: Green Envy


3/99: Treated Blue Topaz (Treated Gems, Pt. 9)


6/98: Old Faithfuls Return

tourmaline


8/04: Spectacular Tourmalines!


1/02: Tucson Teaser


8/01: Green Party


8/00: Namibian Mint


3/99: Arríba, Paraíba


2/99: Flash in the Pan

tsavorite


11/99: Green Light for Tsavorite

turquoise


3/03: Land & Sea


4/02: All Turquoise


12/01: City Slicker


4/01: Simply Silver


6/00: Turquoise is Making Noise

vesuvianite


5/99: Vesuvianite Resurgent

zircon


5/00: Zircon's Test

Cutting and carving

awards and tributes


3/05: Traditional Value


8/02: Farewell, Mr. Renaissance Man


2/02: AGTA Spectrum & Cutting Edge Honors


8/00: Fanciful Lapidary


10/99: Facet Junction


10/98: Cutting Edge: Field of Dreams


2/98: Web Cut Captures Judges

branding


3/01: Can Gemstones Be Branded?

briolettes


11/00: Suspended in Color

cabochons


7/01: Gemstone Flashdance

cameos


12/99: Carved From Tradition


10/99: Carve a Niche with Cameos


1/99: Pretty as a Picture

designer cuts and carvings


4/05: Mathematical Brilliance


12/04: You Light Up My Life


11/04: Earthly Perfection


9/04: Now You See It, Now You Don't


7/04: Gracious Rebel


5/04: A Well-Rounded Cutter


12/03: Creative Shapes


10/02: Sweet Harmony


7/02: Curving Light


1/02: Heart of the Matter


10/01: Crafted in the Round


8/01: Optical Collusion


7/01: Martial Faceting


6/01: Superlative Talent, Modest Man


3/00: The Critical Balance of Slava Tulupov


12/99: A Lovely Apparition


12/99: Cutting an Edge in the Competition


12/99: Phenomenal Opal


1/99: Temple of the Cut


11/98: Gem Artists Take Center Stage


11/98: Passageway of Light


10/98: Cutting Edge: Field of Dreams


10/98: Lapidary Delights


10/98: Un-Natural Inclusions, Naturally


6/98: Full Circle


2/98: Web Cut Captures Judges

selling cut


10/04: Trilliant-Cut Gems (The Elements of Quality Cutting, Part 4)


6/04: Emerald-Shaped Gems (The Elements of Quality Cutting, Pt. 3)


4/04: Pear-Shaped Gems (The Elements of Quality Cutting, Pt. 2)


2/04: Round Gems (The Elements of Quality Cutting, Pt. 1)


12/99: Cutting an Edge in the Competition

Education and reference

7/99: GIA's 'Colored Stone Essentials'

4/99: Gemology on the Sales Floor

1/99: Higher Education

7/98: Color Communications Tool

Estate and antique pieces

2/05: Building a Great Museum at GIA

2/01: Eastern Exposure

1/00: Pretty in Pink

7/99: