Only a few weeks after the GIA (Gemological Institute of America) officially recognised Buccellati’s new cut – a 100th anniversary present to itself – the Paris store was able to show how far it has come since 1919, when Mario Buccellati opened a store in Milan near the La Scala opera...
One thing struck me as odd. Down on the other end of the specimen a large neptunite had appeared. Near it was a very thin vein of benitoite that began to show up which ran thru the back of the piece for about 2 inches. For a while I paid no attention to this thin vein, since ...
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Kyanite Mining Corp operates a mine near me, so I emailed them asking for any info on trails in their area where I could do a little digging. Okay, I really don’t want to dig, I just want to take a pretty hike and trip over a giant slab of kyanite or pyrite, but that’s ...
The Power of Gemstones For thousands of years, gemstones have been used as a divination tool. Nearly every culture has held the belief that gemstones possess spiritual powers that endow the wearer with certain attributes. Due to the magical powers associ