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Demantoid "The demantoid is one of the most brilliant gemstones that exist, yet until recently it was little known except among collectors and gemstone lovers. Strictly speaking it is a green garnet, or rather the star of the green garnets. Not without reason does it bear a name which means 'd...

Demantoid Disclosure The ins and outs of reporting treatment and locality Note: Please bear in mind that the inclusions displayed here may at some point lead to judgments being made about them, but at present gemological laboratories and the gemstone industry are uncertain as to how to analyze incl...

Spinel - A Misunderstood Jewel "Have you seen her all in gold Like a queen in days of old She shoots colors all around Like a sunset going down Have you seen the lady fairer….. She's like a rainbow Coming colors in the air Oh, everywhere She comes in colors “ Jagger/Richards "A completely...

You hit a 170ct red spinel of mine with an axe, you'd better run. Cartoon feet, don't fail me now! http://www.free-emoticons.co.uk/emoticons/Happy/happy0118.gif Phil, it wasn't his fault. He thought it was a ruby. mk You hit a 170ct ruby of mine with an axe, you'd best flee the planet!

LOL! Good luck with that one Gemjunkie!! Here's another great article on spinel from Richard Hughes: Spinel Compounds: Background & Historical Perspective "In 1998, the American Ceramic Society held a special meeting in Cincinnati devoted to spinel and spinel-type compounds. Such compounds ...

Distinguishing Heated Spinels from Unheated Natural Spinels and from Synthetic Spinels A short review of on‐going research Sudarat Saeseaw, Wuyi Wang and Kenneth Scarratt GIA Laboratories, Bangkok and New York John L. Emmett and Troy R. Douthit Crystal Chemistry, Brush Prairie, Washington Updated M...

Oy, I was afraid I got them messed up and will have to be more careful here. The way the attachments are put in line right after each other made it a bit confusing, so thanks for letting me know Lydia, and I'm so happy you like them.

I started moving threads to our new board yesterday, and it went surprisingly fast, and was easier to do than I thought. All we have to do is quote and copy each post we want to move, create a thread for it here in the proper category, and drop it into a post. The coding works the same on both forum...

LOL! It was just a bit early because I hadn't made any in case the vote was no, but it looks pretty good to me, so here are our first Funday Sunnies on our new board. For newcomers, the link below each pic is so if they make you laugh you can click thru and give my funny a thumbs up. The more thumbs...

I had difficulty too, but when I changed the extension to .jpg, and got the file size below - I think it's 6k-whatever for the max, it finally accepted the pic I wanted. Even if your dimensions are 90x90, it also has to be below that other size number. I'm so dumb when it comes to computers I don't ...