Fashionable color sweeps the Spectrum Awards

News  |  www.nationaljewelernetwork.com | Oct 29, 2008

National Jeweler Network - NationalJewelerNetwork.com keeps industry professionals up-to-date on current affairs and trends affecting the jewelry trade.

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Garnet Minerals - The Many Colors of Garnets

News  |  ezinearticles.com | Oct 20, 2008

Spessartine is an uncommon garnet. Spessartite or spessartine is manganese aluminum garnet, Mn3Al2(SiO4)3. Madagascar's spessartine garnet is a recently discovered variety with a beautiful raspberry body color, and spectacular salmon-pink fire.

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Period Jewels Offered at Auction by Christie's

News  |  www.jckonline.com | Mar 31, 2008

Jewelry from the 17th Century through modern day will be on sale at Christie’s New York, "Rare Jewels and Gemstones: The Eye of a Connoisseur," to be held April 15 at Rockefeller Galleries.

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Untitled Page - Tucson '01: What Is The Hot Rock?

The greatest gem exhibtion on earth — the American Gem Trade Association Gem Fair and related shows — is right around the corner. These trade shows in Tucson in February are the one event where practically the entire colored gemstone industry gathers together.

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Intergem Scheduled for Sept. 30-Oct. 3

Idar-Oberstein is home to more than 500 businesses in the gem and jewelry trade and the Intergem show, which will run from Sept. 30-Oct. 3. A salon-type show, Intergem features 130 of the region's leading companies in lapidary arts and trendsetting design.

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Garnet Mineral Information

News  |  ezinearticles.com | Oct 20, 2008

The history of Garnet dates back to the Bronze Age (more than 5000 years ago), when it was a very popular gemstone. Garnet is a family of minerals having similar physical and crystalline properties. Garnet is found in a wide variety of metamorphic rocks and in some igneous rocks.

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Gem and Diamond Colors Explained

News  |  ezinearticles.com | Oct 20, 2008

The colors we see depend on how light travels through a gemstone. Crystal structure and the metallic elements present in minute amounts in the gemstone determine this. Many gems appear colored because part of the white light traveling through them is absorbed within the mineral structure.

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Celebrity Designer Exhibits at GIA Museum

News  |  www.jckonline.com | Dec 20, 2007

The Gemological Institute of America Museum has rolled out the red carpet for Beverly Hills designer, Ricardo Basta’s bejeweled brooches that are currently on exhibit at the Institute’s headquarters in Carlsbad, Calif.

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'Rainbow' Andradite Garnet

News  |  www.jckonline.com | Jul 1, 2005

One of the more curious and rare garnets, andradite, known for its green gem dispersive variety, demantoid, also occurs in a dark root-beer-brown variety containing an iridescent phenomenon. It looks like crystallized black opal, says Falk Burger, gem expert from New Mexico who has been mining and

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Cutting-Edge Design at AGTA

News  |  www.jckonline.com | Feb 1, 2005

This past October, in Dallas, Texas, marked the 21st annual installment of the American Gem Trade Association (AGTA) Spectrum Awards. The competition recognizes original jewelry and lapidary arts that possess stellar innovation and design set in various metals and using natural colored gemstones,

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