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IN THIS ISSUE:
- Editorial – Sitting with a lovely cup of coffee, I flick through the kaleidoscopic universe of IGR issue #18 (Michele Macrì)
- The Diamond View – Navigating the transition: Insights into the Global Diamond Market in 2024 (Sergio Sorrentino)
- 10X – Our Friends the Inclusions. The Detective at the Party of Inclusions. Sixteenth Episode (Luigi Costantini and Claudio Russo)
- GEM NEWS – Will the recently inaugurated Surat Diamond Exchange cooperate or overlap with its Mumbai counterpart?
- GEM NEWS – Will De Beers/Botswana agreement on diamond shares pave the way for social equality?
- GEM NEWS – The first synthesis of lapis lazuli was made by Raimondo di Sangro in 18th-century Naples: the research by the University of Bari
- GEM NEWS – One of the rarest meteorites has fallen in Italy and opens up new horizons
- GEM NEWS – In France synthetic diamonds cannot be described as “cultivated” or “created in a laboratory”
- GEM NEWS – Whatever it works. GIA adopts the term “Hanadama” for Akoya pearl evaluation
- ETHICAL STONES – Diamonds for a better future. Sierra Leone’s Diamond Industry and Martin Rapaport’s missions (Paolo Minieri and Sergio Sorrentino)
- 3D Elastometric Tactile Sensors applied to Glyptics, from Observation to the Measurement of Engravings (Flavio Butini and Rose Marie Scappin)
- What is X-Ray Fluorescence (XRF) (Peters Brangulis)
- Mineralogical Characterization of Natural or Treated Ethiopian Opals: Water Immersion Tests, Transformation, and Reversibility (Ada Antonella Rasulo, Manuela Rossi, Rosanna Rizzi and Miriam Alberico)
- Gemologists, Entrepreneurs and Associations discuss at La Sapienza in Rome the application of Guidelines for the transparent sale of gemstones (Michele Macrì)
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LETTERS TO IGR – Lorenzo, a 10-year-old boy, stumbles across a sample of jadeite in Piedmont. Gübelin’s test confirms the nature of the material (Isabella Romeo)
- LETTERS TO IGR – The IGR Editorial team received the testimony of Chiara Teodori, a GIA gemologist who was the primary analyst of the sample (Chiara Teodori)
- COUNTER-GEMOLOGY – Ethics mocked or ethical mockery? (The “Bad-Mouthed Jiminy Cricket”: Luigi Costantini)
ON THE COVER:
Collecting alluvial diamonds in Sierra Leone. (Photo: Davide Sorrentino, IGR)
