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- Thu May 15, 2025 12:23 pm
- Forum: Stone and Inclusion Photos
- Topic: Worm-like inclusion in a ruby
- Replies: 5
- Views: 310
Re: Worm-like inclusion in a ruby
The ring looks very worn, like a plating is wearing off. Any stamping on the inside? Quality stamps, maker's marks, hallmarking?
- Thu May 15, 2025 12:19 pm
- Forum: Stone and Inclusion Photos
- Topic: Worm-like inclusion in a ruby
- Replies: 5
- Views: 310
Re: Worm-like inclusion in a ruby
I removed some of your photos because they did not offer any relevant information.
- Tue May 13, 2025 12:22 am
- Forum: Stone and Inclusion Photos
- Topic: Worm-like inclusion in a ruby
- Replies: 5
- Views: 310
Re: Worm-like inclusion in a ruby
Hello and welcome to our forum.
May I request that you take a picture of the stone without magnification?
Thanks.
May I request that you take a picture of the stone without magnification?
Thanks.
- Sat May 10, 2025 12:37 pm
- Forum: Questions for the Experts
- Topic: Confusing gemstone report
- Replies: 4
- Views: 432
Re: Confusing gemstone report
Green is not a color one often sees resulting from Be diffusion. But you could always send the sapphire to GIA of AGL for further testing.
Beryllium Diffusion of Ruby and Sapphire
John L. Emmett, Kenneth Scarratt, Shane F. McClure, Thomas Moses, Troy R. Douthit, Richard Hughes, Steven Novak ...
Beryllium Diffusion of Ruby and Sapphire
John L. Emmett, Kenneth Scarratt, Shane F. McClure, Thomas Moses, Troy R. Douthit, Richard Hughes, Steven Novak ...
- Sat May 10, 2025 12:09 pm
- Forum: Field Trips for Gem Hunters
- Topic: Walk through the gemstone market in Chantaburi.
- Replies: 2
- Views: 454
Re: Walk through the gemstone market in Chantaburi.
Grand pics, ChrisP!
- Sat May 10, 2025 12:06 pm
- Forum: Synthetics and Treatments
- Topic: Unheated verneuil ruby
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3986
Re: Unheated verneuil ruby
Sidebar. Treatment to me, suggests a post formation event.
A natural ruby undergoes heat treatment in an attempt to improve its characteristics, right?
If no indications of heat treatment are found, it can be labeled as "no evidence of heat treatment".
Earth mined rubies typically form at high ...
A natural ruby undergoes heat treatment in an attempt to improve its characteristics, right?
If no indications of heat treatment are found, it can be labeled as "no evidence of heat treatment".
Earth mined rubies typically form at high ...
- Sat May 10, 2025 11:55 am
- Forum: Synthetics and Treatments
- Topic: Unheated verneuil ruby
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3986
Re: Unheated verneuil ruby
I don't see any pics.
- Tue Apr 29, 2025 3:17 pm
- Forum: CSI: Colored Stone Identification
- Topic: corundum
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1148
Re: corundum
Aso, note that I moved your post to CSI: Colored Stone Identification.
- Tue Apr 29, 2025 3:15 pm
- Forum: CSI: Colored Stone Identification
- Topic: corundum
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1148
Re: corundum
Hello.
I think your pictures depict faceting abrasion on the surface of your stone, not internal characteristics.
I think your pictures depict faceting abrasion on the surface of your stone, not internal characteristics.
- Sun Apr 27, 2025 12:18 am
- Forum: Field Trips for Gem Hunters
- Topic: Australia's Gemfields
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3312
Re: Australia's Gemfields
Well worth it. Thanks. 

- Thu Apr 24, 2025 12:11 pm
- Forum: Field Trips for Gem Hunters
- Topic: Australia's Gemfields
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3312
Re: Australia's Gemfields
Chris, I had to delete your photos because they were not loading properly.
Please try submitting them again.
Thanks.
Please try submitting them again.
Thanks.
- Wed Apr 23, 2025 9:50 pm
- Forum: Vintage & Antique Gemstones, Jewellery and Obects D'Art
- Topic: ASJRA Annual Conference
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1475
- Fri Apr 18, 2025 12:55 pm
- Forum: Field Trips for Gem Hunters
- Topic: An expedition to the Pyrenees for French Jet
- Replies: 2
- Views: 457
Re: An expedition to the Pyrenees for French Jet
Brilliant. Your narration is haunting.
- Fri Apr 11, 2025 12:18 pm
- Forum: Actual Announcements Regarding Our Forum
- Topic: FORUM FORMAT UPDATED
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2096
FORUM FORMAT UPDATED
After 25 years of the old phpBB format, the coding became obsolete and would no longer be supported. The decades of our information would have disappeared in a puff of internet obsolescence.
The new format is current and obviously generic, but all still works and all info has been saved.
Let me ...
The new format is current and obviously generic, but all still works and all info has been saved.
Let me ...
- Sun Mar 30, 2025 12:31 pm
- Forum: Colored Stones
- Topic: New source of Vayrynenite
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3113
Re: New source of Vayrynenite
I want one,