November – Citrine

November – Citrine

The mellow gold of Citrine captures attention and brightens our moods. A sunny quarts whose name comes from the French word for “Lemon.” Cheerful and full of light, this sparkling gem was once thought to protect the wearer against various evils. Today, its...
December – Blue Zircon

December – Blue Zircon

A gemstone of great beauty and rarity, sparkling blue zircon might be mistaken for the more expensive blue diamond. Colorless forms of zircon were long favored by consumers because this breathtaking gem, with its superb brilliance and dispersion, looks more like...

Diamond Cut

Diamonds are praised for their ability to exude light which creates intense sparkle. So often a diamond’s cut is thought of as only being a shape, such as round, square, or emerald; however, a diamond’s cut is actually about how a diamond’s facets...

Diamond Color

Diamond color grading of gem quality diamonds is actually based on the absence of color. The chemical makeup of a perfect diamond has no hue. The Gemological Institute of America (GIA) color grading system uses a letter scale to measure the degree of colorlessness by...