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    The Line Between a Good Stone and a Great One
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    Two blue sapphires sit on the same tray, cut to the same oval, set in the same 14k white gold. One is nine hundred dollars and the other is nine... Read more
    What the Stones Were Asked to Mean
    What the Stones Were Asked to Mean
    Long before anyone could explain why a ruby is red, people had decided what a ruby was for. Warriors set them into armour, travellers carried garnet for a safe return,... Read more
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    The Gemstones Worth More Than They Cost
    The Gemstones Worth More Than They Cost
    Set a fine amethyst beside a fine sapphire and most people guess the price backwards. That gap has almost nothing to do with how either stone looks. This guide sorts... Read more
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    Rare Gemstones Guide
    Rare Gemstones Guide
    Every tanzanite that has ever existed came out of a strip of hills seven kilometres long. Diamond is mined on several continents by the hundred million carats. This guide sorts... Read more
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    Treated vs Untreated Gemstones
    Treated vs Untreated Gemstones
    Two sapphires under the same lamp, identical in every way a shopper can see, separated by three days in a furnace and a fourfold difference in price. This guide sorts... Read more
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    Natural vs Synthetic Gemstones, and How to Tell Them Apart
    Natural vs Synthetic Gemstones, and How to Tell Them Apart
    Two emeralds under one lamp, identical in every way a shopper can see, separated by tens of millions of years and a single word on the tag. This guide draws... Read more
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    Gemstone Clarity Explained, Inclusion by Inclusion
    Gemstone Clarity Explained, Inclusion by Inclusion
    Every gemstone keeps a record of how it grew, written in silk, needles and healed fractures. This guide reads gemstone clarity the way a jeweler reads it, naming the three... Read more
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