Our winner is Steve Glazer, sales director at Windsor Jewelers in Charlotte, NC.
If Chuck Norris were a gemstone-quality piece of ancient reef, he’d be a lot like me: tough, rare and going it alone on a 400-million-year-old beach...
Our winner this month is Kathlene Seville from Artisans Unlimited in Bucyrus, OH, who correctly identified May’s mystery stone — sillimanite, named in honor of the...
Andalusite, kyanite, and me, We few, we happy few, We happy band of polymorphous alumino-silicates … OK, so Henry V I may not be, but I...
And congratulations to our winner.
This gem is named for a great czar. Credit: Omi Gems. A lot of things can turn from green to red — an upcoming traffic light,...
This month’s gem quiz winner is Katie Dye from J. David Jewelry in Tulsa, OK. And congratulations to our winner. On occasion it takes someone with...
This month’s gem quiz winner is Robb Arbour of Estate Jewelers in Toledo, OH. And congratulations to our winner. February’s gem quiz was a bit more...
I was once one of those minerals most aptly described as “of interest to collectors only,” but recent scientific research has found uses for me as...
And congratulations to our winner. Gary Hurdle, sales manager at Casa de Oro in Corpus Christi, TX, is the winner of January’s Gem Quiz. Gary crushed...
All gemstones send different tales from the center of the earth; mine has to do with how I occur (very sporadically) in marble formed when granitic...
And congratulations to our winner. Derrick Allen, the winner of our latest Gem Quiz, admits the stone in question had puzzled him long before he picked up the...
Imagine the shock. For millions of years we thought we were one and the same … until that fateful day in 1803, when the formidable rock...
And congratulations to our winner. It’s always great to have a winner who also happens to love the gem in question. And that was the case...
Long before there was tomkat, brangelina or kimye, there was us, “ugrandite” — uvaroite, grossular and me. My two usually green garnet brothers tend to take...
And congratulations to our winner. Congratulations this month to Shevvy Baker, owner of SPB Designs in Louisville, KY, who correctly deduced that the answer to our October...
I am the Jay Gatsby of colored gemstones. A humble brown stone from the poorest continent on earth with an odd, almost extra-terrestrial sounding name, I...
Congratulations this month to Ely Pisco at Panowicz Jewelers in Olympia, WA, who correctly deduced that the answer to our September Gem Quiz was black spinel. “Great...
Shelly Isacco of Joden Jewelers in Grove City, PA, wins this month’s “Jewelry Geek” T-shirt. And congratulations to our winner. For our August Gem Quiz, we...
It’s summer, and thoughts typically turn to a certain slurp-inducing natural treat. I come in more colors than pink and green — indeed my gemological family...
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