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Look at that stunning colour! This gemstone is what we call 'rhodolite' or in more precise terms a pyrope-almandine garnet. Garnets come in a variety of different colours such as red, yellow, orange or ...

No, they are not to eat! Those gorgeous little pebbles are actually green grass tsavorite garnets, splendid precious gemstones.
Seen at Intergem 2020, between two corona lock-downs, those beautiful rough ...

An impossibly rare piece of Nature!
To close up 2020 and to commemorate once again one of the World’s most important source of coloured diamonds, let’s immerse ourselves in the depth of this captivating ...

A fantastic and magnificent fancy purple-pink, type IIa, internally flawless diamond of 14.86 carats.
This unique natural gemstone comes from the Alrosa-owned Russian Ebelyakh mine and is said to be the ...

After almost four decades of mining production, the world renowned Argyle diamond mine is closing its doors.
Even though this inevitable event was foreseen, it comes as a really sad news for the whole gemstone ...

What lies behind a name…
What does padparadscha mean?

The word padparadscha holds its roots in the Sinhalese language, language of the island of gems, Sri Lanka. It is said that the word padparadscha ...

What lies behind the so desired padparadscha call ?
It is interesting to notice, talking to different people within the trade, that their understanding of a padparadscha sapphire might actually be quite ...

One in a million…
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Trigons are a testimony of Nature’s power, a sign of uniqueness and a part of the gemstone’s history.

Gemmologically speaking, trigons are triangular shaped growth marks or etch marks on the surface ...

The long standing belief of diamonds being eternal comes to an end.
Did you know, that diamonds aren’t forever?

Yes, that is correct! There are actually several ways of making that so called eternal ...