In 2008 Gems & Jewellery will be circulated to all members in April, June, August, October and December.

Regular features include:

• Around the Trade
• Gems and Minerals
• Hands-on Gemmology
• Museum and Exhibition news
• Saleroom News
• Jewellery
• Stone Scoop

Single issues of the latest Gems & Jewellery are available at £5.00 per issue (postage and packaging included UK only). Contributions are welcomed.

October 2008 Issue

Included in the October issue of Gems & Jewellery:

• Gems and Minerals: Identifying features of the latest glass-filled blue sapphire and a colour-changing titanite from Afghanistan
• The use of organics in popular, everyday jewellery
• Salesroom News: A white jade Imperial Seal realizes a record-breaking US$8.1 million and a natural pearl necklace supposedly owned by Catherine the Great
• Hands-on gemmology: multi-coloured synthetic quartz, emerald mines in the Urals, identification of a stone purchased as peridot and a new find of transparent rhodonite
• IJL: Winners of the Gem-A Gem Empathy Award 2008
• News of products at the September Hong Kong Jewellery Show that proves that gems do not have to be natural to be interesting.
• The Gem-A Hong Kong Graduation and Awards Dinner – celebrating one hundred years of gemological education

If you would like to advertise in Gems & Jewellery, or would like to know the next copy date, please contact Mary Burland at mary.burland@gem-a.com for further information.