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I am totally in love with pearls and I recently got my GIA Pealrs Diploma, but I am very new to the industry. As I live in Shanghai I can easily go to Hong Kong for the March Int'l Jewellery Show, I know it is not the main one for pearls but I still think there will be a lot to learn. What are...

I just got my diploma last October too, too bad we missed the new online course!! Nerida, the class in Hong Kong was really interesting, I very much enjoyed it!

Great articles! Thanks for sharing, I am trying to learn more about the industry and these pubblications are so useful!

Amazing Jeremy! Gosh I want one...

Thank you! I was also pretty sure. I actually think the poor girl was genuine, her boss must have told her they were natural colour! I will totally go back and tell her :-p

I just came back from one of Shanghai's pearl markets tonight, where I had a interesting discussion with a girl at one of the stores. My colleague wanted some help to buy "grey" pearls for a friend, so we went and started checking out different options. At one point the girl took out a hank of...

Interesting that it says "Mediterranean Pearl", as in Mallorca (Spain) there is a very famous manufacturer of high quality imitation pearls (www.majorcapearls.com). There might be others in the same area. It was really funny when last Christmas I gave some nice freshwater pearls to my aunt and...