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IN THIS ISSUE:
- Editorial – Machines working while you are watching TV matches? No, in gemology you need to know what and how to search for, and whom to ask for help (Paolo Minieri)
- The Diamond View – Big fish eat small fish. What will happen to intermediate diamond traders? (Sergio Sorrentino)
- 10X – Our friends the inclusions. The detective at the party of inclusions. Sixth episode (Luigi Costantini and Claudio Russo)
- GEM NEWS – Never two without three. After Colombian emeralds and Mozambican rubies Fura Gems targets Australian sapphires
- GEM NEWS – The definition of diamond lies on a fault line between natural and synthetic ones. The CIBJO version
- GEM NEWS – Monsoons mitigate Surat diamond crisis while the construction of the new Bourse goes on
- GEM NEWS – Separate diamonds, separate memberships. The GJEPC brings order among Indian synthetic diamond manufacturers
- GEM NEWS – VicenzaOro January 2020 is coming with VO Vintage, the new event dedicated to vintage watches and jewellery
- GEM NEWS – Diamonds in the third millennium. Responsibility, recognition and diamond cutting at the heart of the AFG symposium in Paris
- GEM NEWS – Myanmar military control over rubies and jade is violating human rights. A United Nations report calls for investors to cut off ties with all army-linked businesses
- GEMS OF ITALY – Titanite, Tourmaline, Vesuvianite, Violano, Xonotlite, Zircon, Sulfur
- REVIEWS – Enigma of Murrhine Ware: Legends • History • Literature • Archaeogemology Research (Luigi Costantini)
- Analysis of opals. The new Opal master reference sets in LFG Laboratory (Annabelle Herreweghe and Aurélien Delaunay)
- Synthetic Alexandrite, more magic than Rubik’s Cube (Alberto Malossi)
- “LA-ICP-MS” spectrometry and its use in gemology (Clemens Schwarzinger and Thomas Engeli)
- Journey to the center of the pearl. Composition and structure (Olivier Segura)
- Screening for synthetic diamonds. A comparison of technologies (Alberto Scarani and Mikko Åström)
