The subject is citrine, or, at least, it’s supposed to be. But there’s something about this super-abundant, almost laughably affordable…
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Maybe it’s the translucent honey color. Maybe it’s the slit of reflected white light that intersects the stone lengthwise when…
If aquamarine was spared the price pummelings of the 1981-85 jewelry industry recession, it is no thanks to America. There…
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…
Although Africa has been producing amethyst for more than a decade, the news was pretty much of a trade secret…
Blue topaz, the dirt-cheap treated gem jewelers order in precise shades with eye-shadow names like “London blue,” has fostered high…
Real estate wasn’t the only casualty of the 1981 news that the rule of Hong Kong would be transferred from…
Believe it or not, one scene in an 1829 bestseller by Sir Walter Scott, Anne of Geierstein, destroyed the European…
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…
During the spring of 1985, lapis lazuli, of all things, became a hot topic on Capitol Hill.The subject first came…
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…
Indicolite, the blue member of the tourmaline family, is easy to admire and hard to write about. Mainly of interest…
Is it possible for a gem species identified with class rings to have class? For years, serious respect has eluded…
Kunzite is a much bad-mouthed beauty. At its best a deep-pink lavender, this spodumene is hard to set and, once…
Call it either grace or irony. But scattered throughout western Australia’s mammoth but so far mediocre diamond output, consisting mostly…
Fancy-color diamond specialist Hank Frydman likes nothing better than showing a mouth-watering array of lovely brown diamonds to out-of-town jewelers…
Big, blue and fabulously fancy, the Hope Diamond is the most famous gem in the world. The 45.52-carat stone, on…
Looked at with no regard for its 100-year history, the Tiffany diamond is, according to experts who have studied it…
Believe it or not, the stone that kicked off South Africa’s diamond rush in 1868 was a 21-carat yellow rough…
There he was, standing in his undershorts and shirt, in a small, private office at the Miami airport that seemed,…
Before 1980, sapphire was synonymous with blue. Few jewelers even knew—or cared—that the gem came in other colors—especially yellow and…
Money doesn’t grow on trees but gems do. Or did. Some 25 to 40 million years ago, in what is…
Caesar Habib, a Los Angeles-based specialist in Brazilian gems, still can’t forget the moment this past May he confirmed the…
Ever since stones from a splendid new Brazilian find started making their way to market in early 1987, much conventional…
A diamond by any other name is a zircon. Or it was for a couple of centuries, one of them…
Despite Tiffany connections and a large connoisseur following, tsavorite is becoming something of a has-been. And the very thing that…
Twenty-eight years after it was discovered in 1868, gemology pioneer Max Bauer wrote that demantoid garnet would probably never earn…