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via GIA: http://www.gia.edu/gems-gemology/summer-2015-gemnews-nonbead-cultured-pearls-strombus-gigas According to the farm owners, queen conch pearl culture is undergoing intensive development, and the quality?size, flame pattern, and color?improves with each harvest. Figure 3. Left: An...

Natural Pearls Defined Natural pearls are calcium carbonate secretions which form within mollusks without human intervention. Natural Pearls - Accidents of Nature Natural pearls are formed randomly and really are simple accidents of nature. When a certain type of irritant, such as a...

I can only imagine this photo has been seen by some already but I just stumbled across it today. This has got to be one of the best examples of Conch "flame" out there.

JNA just put up a great piece of SOC pearls: http://www.jewellerynetasia.com/en-us/editorial/Blogs/555/5527/sea-of-cortez-pearls-most-have-never-heard-of Nice work Douglas, you guys are really making waves with SOC lately!

Hope Hisano doesn't mind me posting this, but seeing as it's on JCK I think I'm safe. The pair of earrings in the front are sliced Souffle pearls with colored gemstones set inside the pearls. JCK article...

Found this on twitter this morning, very interesting: http://www.sustainablepearls.org/fileadmin/Documents/PDF/Hanni_Cartier_2013_Tracing_pearls_from_farm_to_consumer_copy.pdf It outlines a couple of methods of "finger printing" the nucleus as a means to track and/or brand pearls from farm to...

Interesting article on Abalone and some GREAT pics : http://www.thefeaturedcreature.com/2013/05/paua-abalone-the-spectacular-mollusc-reveared-by-the-maori-of-new-zealand.html

I posted it up to our facebook thought PG might get a kick out of it - the 4 strand pearl head band never really caught on did it :D

A combination of the Great Depression in the 1930s and Japanese cultured pearls sealed the doom of pearling in the Gulf, but ships and divers still put to sea until the early 1960s. This photograph captures a dying way of life. It was taken by Ronald Codrai, dispatched to the then Trucial...

http://www.usatoday.com/life/people/story/2011-12-14/elizabeth-taylor-auction-sets-record/51903812/1 NEW YORK ? Elizabeth Taylor's jewelry collection fetched a record-setting $115 million ? including more than $11.8 million for a pearl necklace and more than $8.8 million for a diamond ring...

Put a shell to your ear and you can hear the ocean. Japanese scientists have taken that concept to a higher level, inventing a device called the ?kai-lingual? (above) that can ?hear? oysters commenting on their environment. Well shucks! Kai-lingual is a Japanese/English play on words, as ?kai...

Guys, This Pearl Jewelry Is for You Simon Greatwich, Anton del Rosario and Emilio Caligdong, who play for Philippines soccer team the Azkals, model Jewelmer necklaces. Do real men wear pearls? Jewelmer International, a French-Filipino jewelry company, hopes to convince consumers that the...

click Here For Video On the rolling deck of a dhow in the summer of 1964, an unknown pearl diver plucked this tiny scrap of wood off his nose and handed it to a young French documentary filmmaker called Alain Saint-Hilaire. Known as al fitam, this tiny piece of wood reflects a vanished world of...

While he is used to capturing some of the world's most beautiful women in their lingerie or portraits for his Nomad Two Worlds exhibition, photographer Russell James isn't used to losing money, which he did in Hollywood recently. Whilst working on location for the new perl'eco by Atlas South...

Elizabeth Taylor's infamously outrageous jewelry collection is up for sale on December 13th at Christie's in New York and I'm wondering what new queen will end up with her wandering (the translation of the word Le Peregrina) pearl. The pearl, favored by queens, even by the Queen of Hollywood...

Dubai, UAE: Paspaley, the jeweller renowned for producing and retailing the most beautiful pearls in the world, has yesterday (October 3rd, 2011), unveiled the rare Paspaley Pearl during an event held in the Bridge Suite of Atlantis, The Palm resort. It is the first time that the 'pearl of...

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For the mag's 73rd editorion, The Heroes Issue, Mario Testino​ captured Kate Winslet looking nothing short of absolutely flawless in what likely is a nod to miss Elizabeth Taylor and her jewelry. It may not be the famous La Peregrina pearl that Richard Burton​ famously bid on for Elizabeth's...

Within minutes of arriving in Broome I find myself knee deep in the deliciously warm waters of the Indian Ocean, just another sun worshipper along the town's fabled Cable Beach. The 22km of powdery, pale-white sand that fringes the calm blue ocean is Broome's biggest draw, and the town's winter...

A NECKLACE that once belonged to Linlithgow?s most famous daughter Mary Queen of Scots will go on display this weekend at Annet House. A local resident and relation of the famous monarch, who does not want to be named, has lent the pearl choker to the museum coinciding with Doors Open Days...