For the last year, and probably longer, large pieces of colourful crystal, often embedded at one end in a white 'matrix' have been sold on eBay by chinese dealers as 'zircon'. I purchased two samples and found...
In 1911, the pink variety of Beryl was named for the famous financier J. Pierpont Morgan. Pink Beryl had already been used in jewelry for quite a while, and the naming was partly a marketing move to...
Scapolite is a rare and little known gemstone. It is a beautiful gem that comes in many colors. Scapolite was originally discovered in 1913 in the Mogok Stone Tract in upper Burma (Myanmar). There, white,...