A scanning electron microscope image of gemstone processing waste. Researchers are exploring ways to use gemstone processing waste in cement, reducing the environmental impacts of both industries.

You can soften your sweetie with diamonds, but to soften a diamond — the hardest material on Earth — takes some special chemistry. New research finds that a liquidlike layer of carbon at the interface ...

Alan Cleverley started his career as a lapidary aged 15 One of Birmingham's most unusual trades is becoming as rare as the diamonds they work with. The city's Jewellery Quarter used to be a hub for ...

Lusaka — A classic example of Africa's poverty-amidst-plenty type of scenario is Zambia's failure to reap as much as US$600m annually from its gemstone industry. Zambia has rich reserves of gemstones, ...

Pakistan gemstones policy advances as the government meets a leading exporter to discuss reforms aimed at formalizing the sector.

As he trims a red and yellow agate into an oval (called a cabochon) on a rock saw in his workshop in East Helena, Norman Smith’s hands show the power and character that result from 97 years of hard ...

THE government has announced plans to invest in several gemstone lapidaries across major trading centres starting with the Minerals Marketing Corporation of Zimbabwe (MMCZ) as part of ambitions to ...

One of Birmingham's most unusual trades is becoming as rare as the diamonds they work with. The city's Jewellery Quarter used to be a hub for lapidary - the art of carving and polishing gemstones - ...