Rhodochrosite Gems Unstable Colouration of Padparadscha-Like
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Volume 36 / No. 4 / 2018 Effect of Blue Fluorescence on the Colour Appearance of Diamonds Rhodochrosite Gems The Hope Diamond Unstable Colouration of in London Padparadscha-like Sapphires Volume 36 / No. 4 / 2018 Cover photo: Rhodochrosite is prized as both mineral specimens and faceted stones, which are represented here by ‘The Snail’ (5.5 × 8.6 cm, COLUMNS from N’Chwaning, South Africa) and a 40.14 ct square-cut gemstone from the Sweet Home mine, Colorado, USA. For more on rhodochrosite, see What’s New 275 the article on pp. 332–345 of this issue. Specimens courtesy of Bill Larson J-Smart | SciAps Handheld (Pala International/The Collector, Fallbrook, California, USA); photo by LIBS Unit | SYNTHdetect XL | Ben DeCamp. Bursztynisko, The Amber Magazine | CIBJO 2018 Special Reports | De Beers Diamond ARTICLES Insight Report 2018 | Diamonds — Source to Use 2018 The Effect of Blue Fluorescence on the Colour 298 Proceedings | Gem Testing Appearance of Round-Brilliant-Cut Diamonds Laboratory (Jaipur, India) By Marleen Bouman, Ans Anthonis, John Chapman, Newsletter | IMA List of Gem Stefan Smans and Katrien De Corte Materials Updated | Journal of Jewellery Research | ‘The Curse Out of the Blue: The Hope Diamond in London 316 of the Hope Diamond’ Podcast | By Jack M. Ogden New Diamond Museum in Antwerp Rhodochrosite Gems: Properties and Provenance 332 278 By J. C. (Hanco) Zwaan, Regina Mertz-Kraus, Nathan D. Renfro, Shane F. McClure and Brendan M. Laurs Unstable Colouration of Padparadscha-like Sapphires 346 By Michael S. Krzemnicki, Alexander Klumb and Judith Braun 323 333 © DIVA, Antwerp Home of Diamonds Gem Notes 280 W. G. Rutherfurd Collection of Agates | Axinite-(Mg) from Parachinar, Pakistan | Trapiche- type Chrysoberyl | Montebrasite from Afghanistan | Orange- Fluorescing Common Opal from Japan | Two Large Rubies from the Pamir Mountains, Tajikistan | Peculiar Trapiche- like Pattern in a Gold Sheen Computer rendering by J. Ogden Photo by Robert Weldon Sapphire | Sri Lankan Sapphire with Spinel Inclusions | Colour- change Tephroite from South Africa | Glass Imitation of Ametrine | A Treated Mixed- Conferences 356 type Synthetic Yellow Diamond 4th Mediterranean Gemmological and Jewellery Conference | GIA Symposium | Canadian Gemmological Association Conference | 288 Gem-A Conference Gem-A Notices 366 New Media 382 Learning Opportunities 378 Literature of Interest 389 Photo by Bilal Mahmood, AGL The Journal is published by Gem-A in collaboration with SSEF and with the support of AGL. ISSN: 1355-4565, http://doi.org/10.15506/JoG.2018.36.4 THE JOURNAL OF GEMMOLOGY, 36(4), 2018 i EDITOR-IN-CHIEF EDITORIAL CO-ORDINATOR EDITORIAL Brendan M. Laurs Sarah Bremner ASSISTANT [email protected] [email protected] Carol M. Stockton EXECUTIVE EDITOR EDITOR EMERITUS Alan D. Hart Roger R. Harding ASSOCIATE EDITORS 21 Ely Place Ahmadjan Abduriyim, Tokyo, Japan; Raquel Alonso-Perez, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massa- London EC1N 6TD chusetts, USA; Edward Boehm, RareSource, Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA; Maggie Campbell Pedersen, UK Organic Gems, London; Alan T. Collins, King’s College London; John L. Emmett, Crystal Chemistry, Brush t: +44 (0)20 7404 3334 Prairie, Washington, USA; Emmanuel Fritsch, University of Nantes, France; Rui Galopim de Carvalho, PortugalGemas Academy, Lisbon, Portugal; Lee A. Groat, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada; f: +44 (0)20 7404 8843 Thomas Hainschwang, GGTL Laboratories, Balzers, Liechtenstein; Henry A. 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TT-COC-002454 © 2018 The Gemmological Association of Great Britain ISSN: 1355-4565 ii THE JOURNAL OF GEMMOLOGY, 36(4), 2018 What’s New INSTRUMENTATION J-Smart SciAps The newest, Handheld 6th generation LIBS Unit J-Smart scanner In February 2018, from DRC Techno USA-based SciAps (Dharmanandan Inc. released its Research Center, latest version of Surat, India) the handheld laser- was released in induced breakdown mid-2018, and spectroscopy instrument identifies both called the Z-300. The unit CVD and HPHT has three spectrometers laboratory-grown for a range of 190–950 nm, making it capable of diamonds. It supersedes measuring every element in the periodic table from H DRC Techno’s J-Secure technology (see What’s New to U. It comes with Android OS software that allows section, Vol. 35, No. 4, 2016, pp. 271–272), and this the user to customise calibrations for a variety of version of J-Smart has a smaller footprint and provides materials. As for all LIBS devices, a certain amount faster results (90 seconds) than the previous model. of material is vaporised, in this case with a 100 µm The instrument can be used to screen loose or mounted spot size. The unit has a replaceable cartridge to diamonds 0.003 ct and larger of any shape in D through provide an argon purge to boost the signal, which J colours. The 9 × 5½ inch (23 × 14 cm) scanning tray is especially valuable for measuring light elements. allows for large-scale examination of store inventories or The instrument weighs 1.8 kg with the battery and manufacturing production. Visit www.drctechno.com/ measures ~21 × 29 × 12 cm. Visit www.sciaps.com/ Products.aspx.