All That Glitters Website and Info Changes for February 2012!

Here are the changes to look for on the All That Glitters Website for February 2012:

This Months Special: 11.09ct Chrysoberyl Crystal from Ratnapura, Sri Lanka

A Unique Specimen showing good crystal habit, color, clarity and terminations.

This Months Gem News: US/Burma Relations Thawing

Relations between the United States and Myanmar (Burma) warm as the

political climate within Burma changes...

Newly Faceted or Photographed Gemstones:

http://www.atggems.com/Photos_New.htm

Our Master Cutter has returned the 3 gemstones sent him for recutting, obtained from our month long trip abroad. They include a Ruby, a Sapphire and Blue Tourmaline.

Recent Arrivals from our trip abroad:

Many Certed Gems

Ruby - Fine Examples

Sapphire - All Colors

Tsavorite (Green Garnet - miscellaneous shapes and versions of green)

Color Change African Garnet (blue green to purple)

Incredible one of a kind Natural Alexandrite - super in every way!

Sphene - two different colors; very dispersive!

Sapphire Crystals

Sapphire Crystals on Matrix

Chrysoberyl Crystal

Eye Agate

Fossilized Coral

Fossilzed Sharks Tooth WITH Serrations!

Agatized Coral

Opal - Ethiopian

Fire Opal

Several Demantoid Garnets from Namibia including a PAIR!

Spessartite Cabs (2) look like gum drops, very clean

Hackmanite (an important variety of sodalite) exhibits unusual phenomenon known as reversible photochromism

Reddish Orange Spinel from Burma

Red Spinel (fine color) from Burma

Unheated Tanzanite

10mm Blue-Purple Tanzanite

Namibian Blue-Green Tourmaline

Purplish Mozambique Tourmaline Cab

Unusual and Rare Blue Zircon

Unique Example of Broad Flash Fire Agate

Black and White Zoned Agate Cab

Included Quartz with large Breadcrumb inclusion with Tourmaline needles

Chinese "Year of" bracelet

1500+ct Carved Lizard - Jade (could be much heavier - we don't have a scale that weigh it!)

Three Brasilian Naturally Terminated Tourmaline Crystals

3.59ct Yellowish Pyrope-Spessartine Garnet

Gemstones in Cutting:

Three gemstones are currently being refaceted by our Master Cutter. They are a certed Ruby, an unusual Teal Sapphire, and a nice deep Blue Namibian Tourmaline! We thought that the beauty of these gemstones could be improved by being tweeked eventhough the cost of recutting and weight loss willbe costly. We hope to have them available on line just before the next monthly email is sent out.

===> These have been received back from our Master Cutter and can be seen on the Newly Photographed page:

Tucson Gem Show is here....

We will be at the Tucson Gem Show, which we believe is our 26th year in attendance.

New Page!

We have a decent inventory of Fine Tsavorite (Green Garnet) and so we have added a New Page dedicated to this Grossular Garnet.
http://www.atggems.com/Photos_Tsavorite.htm

This page can be accessed in two places within our Photo Gallery Page:

http://www.atggems.com/Photo_Gallery.htm

A Few Photos From Our Trip to the Ratnapura Gem Pits

Living conditions and mining tools haven't changed much is many decades of mining in Sri Lanka...

http://www.atggems.com/Photo_Gallery.htm

(Ratnapura Gem Pit Photos located near the bottom of this page)