Month: December 2023

Pity lavender jade, that pink-to-purple member of jadeite’s rather extensive color family. Far rarer than this gem’s much-coveted green and…

Until 1912, the year a Jewelers of America forerunner revised this country’s birthstone list, chalcedony boasted five, and at earlier…

During that great 300-million-year flowering of marine life called the Paleozoic era, a squid-like animal known as the ammonite thrived…

There are two distinct cultures in the world of colored stone retailing—the jewelry store and the rock shop. Rarely do…