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And some more: (please let me know which
links are dead or different)
http://www.professionaljeweler.com/archives/articles/main.html
Really huge set of articles on the jewelry field. Lots
of gemology
information.
http://www.explore-earthscience.com/geology/
Mineralogy article links, includes gem
materials
http://www.zdiamond.net/articles/Gemology
a series of short articles and definitions about gemology
http://www.uni-wuerzburg.de/mineralogie/links/literature/literature.html
Gigantic set of links for mineralogists
and related fields: includes
gemology
http://www.diamondarticles.com/famous-diamonds.php?id=89
In depth articles on famous diamonds,
very well done.
http://www.bovagems.com/eclectic/HTML/
The Eclectic lapidary series of articles,
hobbyist to professional
gemology
http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~eps2/wisc/keywords.html
Jill’s hot index to her site on gems. This site is a must visit for
those studying gemmology.
http://geology.wisc.edu/~jill/tables.html
And Jills tables-if you are interested in gemology this whole site (and
this page) are just fantastic.
http://www.ruby-sapphire.com/r-s-bk-quality3.htm
http://www.ruby-sapphire.com/r-s-bk-quality4.htm
Exerpts from Richard Hughes great book on rubies and saphires.
http://www.ruby-sapphire.com/rantslants.htm
Articles by Mr. Hughes - with pithy commentary.
http://www.dendritics.com/
http://www.dendritics.com/scales/site-map.asp
An interesting site for its gemology links and information.
http://www.bel-cg.com/index.htm
BijouX Extraordinaire. a comercial site with some good consumer articles
on gemology and more developing.
http://www.xs4all.nl/~mineral/chem.html
An interesting chemical and crystallography site, good periodic table
of the elements. Check the links section on this site.
http://www.cigem.ca/
Canadian Institute of Gemmology (lots of articles)
http://www.ags.org/
American Gem Society pages, good historical and some gemological info
http://www.gia.org/
The Gemological Institute of America site - interesting.
http://www.canadiangeological.com/
Canadian Gemmology Association
http://www.gem-a.info/
British Gemmological Association.
http://www.LICCINI.com
Mark Liccini’s gem/specimen source, a very nice gem treatment page
and more to come.
http://www.gemtec.com/
A great collection of photomicrographs of gem (emerald inclusions)
http://mineral.galleries.com/default.htm
A really nicely done gemmology on-line resource, a search engine and more
for gem materials and their attributes.
http://www.rockhounds.com/rockshop/
Bobs rock shop, look around, Gem crystal systems info-good stuff
http://208.47.214.224/cut.php
Diamond grading intorduction .
http://www.agt-gems.com/AGTbook.html
Lots of information about gemstones and their ‘planetory gemology’
and astrological meanings. Check out the ‘Modern Gemology’ section.
http://www.emporia.edu/earthsci/amber/go340/visual.htm
Nice set of pages of nomenclature information
http://www.emporia.edu/earthsci/amber/go340/gemtest.htm
Notes on gemstone optical testing
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