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IN THIS ISSUE:
- The Diamond View – So now diamonds are flying. But we will not make predictions so brazenly optimistic as to challenge common sense (Sergio Sorrentino)
- 10X – Our friends the inclusions. The detective at the party of inclusions. Eleventh episode (Luigi Costantini and Claudio Russo)
- GEM NEWS – From Star Wars to gemstone reports. AIGS sets a new standard for Jedi spinels
- GEM NEWS – Australian emeralds? SSEF analyzed the Riverina ones
- GEM NEWS – HRD ends its lab in Turkey and calls the partnership experience an “unhappy marriage”
- GEM NEWS – Surpassing the hardness of diamond is possible. The superhard material AM-III overcomes diamond and fullerite
- GEM NEWS – Fura Gems starts selling rough Australian sapphires and launches a marketing platform
- GEM NEWS – The role of organic carbon in the diamond formation process
- GEM NEWS – De Beers’ Lightbox now sells its lab-grown diamonds as loose gemstones as well
- The strange story of the termites engaged in geological prospections and termite mounds showing minerals (Carmine Allocca, Giuseppe Elettivo and Valerio Zancanella)
- Vienna is not just about waltzing: Paul Knischka and his lab-grown rubies (Alberto Malossi)
- Are there gems on Mars? (Domenico Lombardi)
- COUNTER-GEMOLOGY – The strange case of the ecological and democratic natural “lab-grown” gemstones from Italy (The “Bad-Mouthed Jiminy Cricket”: Luigi Costantini)
- LAB NOTES – Laboratory notes on a Paraiba tourmaline with fluorescence and its possible causes (Flavio Butini, Francesca Gaeta and Enrico Butini)
ON THE COVER:
A “Jedi” spinel crystal in Yangon, Myanmar (detail). (Photo: Vincent Pardieu)
