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La Jolla Jewelry Appraiser Won The ASA Rising Star Award 2022

La Jolla Jewelry Appraiser Won The 2022 ASA Rising Star Award

Jewelry appraiser Trang Pham, GIA Graduate Gemologist, owner of La Jolla Gem Appraisal has won the Rising Star award 2022 by the prestigious American Society of Appraisers (ASA). This is another step in proving her commitment with the profession she is passionate with.

La Jolla Gem Appraisal applies advanced technology to identify natural versus synthetic diamonds

In the trade, it is essential that laboratory-grown diamonds can be identified because consumers need to know what they are buying, and because there are often significant price differences between them and natural gemstones. It is increasingly important for gemologist appraisers to make that

Fracture-filling in diamonds: a treatment to enhance diamond clarity but it needs to be disclosed to the consumers

There are many diamonds (both loose and mounted stones) that come across my desk on a daily basis for inspection as a part of the appraisal process. One of them is this diamond. It is an otherwise I3 in clarity before treatment (I3 is the lowest clarity grade in the GIA diamond grading system

How To Date Diamonds?

Scientists estimate that the earth is about 4.6 billion years old. According to GIA, research published in 2010 indicates that the youngest known diamonds—found in a Brazilian kimberlite—are just 107 million years old. On the other hand, the oldest known diamonds—from Canada’s Ekati mine—are as

Clarity Enhancement in Emerald and Its Affect On Value

It is a common practice in the trade that virtually all emeralds have been fracture filled by oil, resin or other substances to enhance their clarity, sometimes to enrich their color, or even durability. The geological conditions where emerald grows just make it very rare for emerald to be

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