A chemical and spectroscopic comparison of two purple gem spinel samples, one of them the first reported example of a spinel with a saturated purple color caused predominantly by chromium and cobalt.

GIA ensures accurate gemological measurements across its global laboratories through rigorous metrology practices, including systematic instrument calibration, validation from traceable standards, and ...

Field Report Gems & Gemology, Winter 2016, Vol. 52, No. 4 Update on Gemstone Mining in Northern Mozambique Wim Vertriest and Vincent Pardieu ...

Reports on a visit to a shell nucleus manufacturer and two pearl farms in northern Vietnam, which is emerging as a notable producer.

Shows how the color of Madagascar sapphire is lightened with heating to relatively low temperatures below 1350°C.

Diamonds have a long history as a premier gemstone—a natural consequence of their beauty, rarity, and superlative physical properties such as extreme hardness. Diamonds that are mined for use as ...

The micro-world of gems lies at the very core of gemology. Information gathered from observations through the microscope serves as the very foundation for many conclusions drawn on a specimen, ...

The quality and size of this 4.04 ct CVD-grown diamond ring demonstrate the advancing technology in laboratory-grown diamonds.

Prismatic blue and colorless dumortierite inclusions in rock crystal quartz are examined for the first time in the Carlsbad lab.

Figure 1. Twelve Chilean abalone cultured pearls and two red abalone (Haliotis rufescens) shells with attached cultured shell blisters, as well as three 7 mm traditional freshwater shell bead nuclei ...

GIA researchers report on a new nickel-diffusion treatment used to modify color in spinel and present criteria for identification.

This installment of “Colored Stones Unearthed” explores inclusions in gems—how they form, how they are studied, and what they mean for gemologists and geoscientists.