Year: 2023

The natural pearl isn’t the only worldwide casualty of environmental sea sickness. Now coral, the other great organic gem from…

The subject is citrine, or, at least, it’s supposed to be. But there’s something about this super-abundant, almost laughably affordable…

Recently, the decade-old battle between aquamarine and topaz—the prime movers among pastel-blue gems—has seemed so one-sided that some of America’s…

Some gems seem to be victims of that oft-repeated childhood proverb: If you can’t say anything nice, don’t say anything…

Blue topaz, the dirt-cheap treated gem jewelers order in precise shades with eye-shadow names like “London blue,” has fostered high…

Naming new-found gem and mineral species after those who discovered them or in honor of important mineralogists and geologists has…

Jewelers who planned to stock fine blue-color moonstones in the near future might have to delay their plans indefinitely now…

Although quaint folklore and superstition heighten consumer interest in stones like sapphire and opal, they rarely clinch sales of these…

When tanzanite, a baked-to-blue zoisite from East Africa, took the jewelry world by storm in 1969, it was considered the…

Kunzite is a much bad-mouthed beauty. At its best a deep-pink lavender, this spodumene is hard to set and, once…

Before 1980, sapphire was synonymous with blue. Few jewelers even knew—or cared—that the gem came in other colors—especially yellow and…

Despite Tiffany connections and a large connoisseur following, tsavorite is becoming something of a has-been. And the very thing that…