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What's The Difference Between A Mineral, A Crystal, And A Gemstone?
Gemstones are precious or semi-precious stones that have been cut and polished by humans for use in things like jewelry and ...
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AGTA Announces the 2024 AGTA Spectrum & Cutting Edge Award Winners
(PRESS RELEASE) DALLAS — The American Gem Trade Association (AGTA) announced the winners of the 2024 AGTA Spectrum & Cutting Edge Awards. This year is extra special because it marks 40 years of ...
The 'Wicked' cast is embracing method dressing to promote the film. Here are their red-carpet looks, ranked from least to most on theme.
The "Wicked" cast has been wearing outfits inspired by the film to promote it, like Ariana Grande's pink gowns and Cynthia ...
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Blood Diamonds
The 34-year-old slips on a gold signet-style ring in the 12th-floor showroom of Vale Jewelry in New York ... s most important sources of gem-­quality diamonds. Yet the provincial capital ...
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An Introduction to Simulants or Imitation Gem Materials
Courtesy: Pamela Welborn The jewelry ... crystal structure and optical and physical properties. These simulants, also known as imitations or substitutes, can be natural or manmade. Synthetic cubic ...
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An Introduction to Gem Treatments
A topic that often comes up is whether a particular gemstone is or isn’t treated. In a sense, humans alter all gem materials after they are found in the earth in order to prepare them for use in ...
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What's The Difference Between A Mineral, A Crystal, And A Gemstone?
It could be said that minerals are salt-of-the-earth, crystals ... use in things like jewelry and research. Some gemstones are also minerals, such as that classic rock diamond, but there are ...
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An Eye for Art: Self-taught artist combines therapy with crystals, gemstones
She has always collected rocks and has always been interested in crystals and gems. “When I was in middle ... not have a lot of money so they made jewelry using high-quality gemstones for ...
The 50 Most Dazzling Jewelry Gifts at Every Price Point
We rounded up the most drool-worthy necklaces, earrings, rings and bracelets from celebrity-owned and Hollywood-loved labels.
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Deadliest Crystals, Minerals, and Gemstones: Nature's Lethal Beauties
Crystals and gemstones can be more than just beautiful—they can be deadly. Minerals like arsenopyrite, cinnabar, galena, and torbernite carry toxic substances like arsenic, mercury, lead, and ...
High-Jewelry Creations From Paris Show Off a Burst of Color, From Piaget to Bulgari
We share our pick of Paris’s newest high-jewelry creations by names like Bulgari and Piaget for a much-needed splash of joie ...
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Greece pawn shop pulled in over $2M from retail theft scheme, federal prosecutors say
Federal prosecutors said four of the suspects ― Shabon Banks, Amanda Reeves, Chad Lewis Jr. and Chanc Lewis ― sold nearly 38,000 new, in-box items to New York Gold Diamond and Pawn on Stone ...