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Photoatlas of Inclusions in Gemstones, Volume 2

Photoatlas Vol. 2

A book review

Heat Seaker: UV fluorescence as a gemological tool

Heat Seeker

UV fluorescence as a gemological tool

Fluxed Up: The fracture healing of ruby

Fluxed Up

Fracture healing of ruby

The Kimberley Process: Appeasement comes to the diamond trade

The Kimberley Process

Appeasement comes to the diamond trade

Walking the Line in Ruby & Sapphire

Walking the Line in Ruby & Sapphire

Defining padparadscha and pink sapphire

Merelani tanzanite mines

The Skin Game

Exposure of beryllium-treated padparadscha sapphires

There's a Rumble in the Jungle

There's a Rumble in the Jungle

Lattice-diffusion treated blue sapphire

Vampire Blues

Vampire Blues

No matter how often you kill a gem treatment, it still comes back to haunt you

Conspiracy Theory: Gems & junkies in Burma

Conspiracy Theory

Gems & junkies in Burma

Love & Hate: Max Green and the Laos sapphire mine

Love & Hate

The perfect scam. Loot a trust fund and launder the proceeds via a Lao sapphire mine. But then everything went wrong...

Seeing Red: Ruby connoisseurship

Seeing Red

A discerning glance at the qualities that make ruby the most sexual of all gems

The War Prayer by Mark Twain

The War Prayer

An American classic

Passion Fruit: A lover's guide to sapphire

Passion Fruit

A lover's guide to sapphire connoisseurship

Crying Uncle

Crying Uncle

Homage to the late Gerry Rogers

The Name Game: Conventions for selecting gem names

The Name Game

Conventions for selecting gem names

Tracing the Green Line: A journey to Burma's jade mines

Tracing the Green Line

A journey to Burma's jade mines

Heaven and Hell: The quest for jade in Upper Burma

Heaven and Hell

The quest for jade in Upper Burma

Burmese Jade: The Inscrutable Gem

Burmese Jade

The inscrutable gem

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