IGR – Italian Gemological Review #3 – January 2018 – International Edition

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IN THIS ISSUE:

• Editorial – Cutting edge knowledge vs diffused basic knowledge. I don’t know what to cheer for (Paolo Minieri)

• The Diamond View – Diamond outlook 2018 (Sergio Sorrentino)

• 10X – Your friends the inclusions. The detective at the inclusion party. Second episode (Luigi Costantini)

• GEM NEWS – Rubies and jades. The ten-year cycle of the boycott against Myanmar
• GEM NEWS – Psychology of shiny things. Gemmology also included
• GEM NEWS – The proof of Provenance of Gübelin standing to the fact. But are nanoparticles to be considered as a treatment?
• GEM NEWS – Polluting pearls, blocking bans, rising prices
• GEM NEWS – The name of diamonds. A fight moving from the microscope to the dictionary
• GEM NEWS – The jewel knows no crisis: VicenzaOro January 2018 is already sold out

• GEMS OF ITALY –  Introduction – Alabaster – Alurgite – Amber – Analcime – Anglesite – Apatite – Axinite – Barite – Aquamarine Beryl – Emerald Beryl

• Lab notes – Diamond with unusual Diamond View fluorescence pattern (Meenakshi Chauhan)

• Ethical stones – Forensic Gemmology. What legally constitutes a gem? (Marco Calabrò)

• Tomorrow’s rubies will come from the auctions (Paolo Minieri)

• Reviews – The first complete work in the world on asterism. “Asterism – Gems with a star” by Martin P. Steinbach (Luigi Costantini)

• Basic elements of photoluminescence spectroscopy in gemology (Alberto Scarani e Mikko Åström)

• Colored gemstones. It’s now time to sell cut (John Dyer)