All That Glitters Website and Info Changes for March 2015!

Here are the changes to look for on the All That Glitters Website for March 2015:

This Month's Special:  Original Tobacco Caddy Label - Welcome Nugget

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

                                                                      

This Month's Gem News:  Gemfields Bets on Gemstone Market’s Growth

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

Though the trade/public have seen the prices on fine gemstones (and gemstones in general) increase dramatically over the past few years, in talking to dealers in Tucson, L. Allen Brown, the owner of All That Glitters, would have to agree with them with respect to the major reason.  As the world's population of the middle class grows, the demand for colored gemstones and jewelry has been increasing.  With that demand, prices on available items has and will, increase.  It is the old expression one has heard in the past - Supply and Demand.  The general consensus is that this is not going to end or even slow down soon.  This demand for color is re-inforced by the both the title and the article by GIA which is March's Monthly News….

"In late November 2014, Gemfields unveiled a 40.23 ct ruby it had just unearthed from its Montepuez ruby deposit in Mozambique. The discovery made headlines, the kind usually reserved for large diamonds…"

Read More on the above link.

Newly Faceted or Photographed Gemstones:

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

A large 6+ct Burmese Peridot

Oregon Sunstone with schiller faceted by the award winning Daryl Alexander

Two very fine Natural Alexandrites both weighing 1.03ct each - currently being certed at GIA

A Rare Faceted Amethst from Morocco with Enhydro(water/gas)

Two Red Burmese Spinels

One ORANGE Mahenge Spinel - have never seen one like this before!

A Rare Pad-Colored Burmese Spinel

Color Shifting Unheated Madagascar Sapphire

An Unusually Colored Sapphire from a new find in Nigeria (looks like a Cobalt Spinel!)

A Magenta Pink Oval Sapphire

Clearish Cat's Eye Moonstones with VERY Sharp Eyes

Ethiopian Opal - Lots of Color Play

Four Quartz with aesthically pleasing and very collectable Inclusions!

Roman Coin set into a Sterling Silver Pendant with 3 Round Garnets - includes the chain/free shipping/ins

Two Splendid Large Agate Slices for Home Decorators

Yellow Beryl Crystal with Smoky Quartz Crystal

Light Green Fluorite Cluster from China

Unusual Termination on an Aquamarine Crystal - see it to believe it!

Five Nice Amethyst/Quartz Crystals/Specimens with Enhydros

Extremely Large Multiple Enhydros in Quartz Crystal/Specimen - photos with detail and video available

Large Pyrite on Matrix from Spain

Palm-sized Pyrite on Matrix with Quartz Crystal Growth (Peru)!

Clean and Nicely Formed Topaz Crystal from Pakistan - Facet Rough or Specimen

Cherry Creek Intarsia - 12 pieces, purchased for their beautiful designs

One of our Orangy Pink Sapphires was just Certed by GIA as the coveted variety of Sapphire - Padparadscha

More All That Glitters Gemstones Studied at GIA:

We have another 5 or so items currently within GIA being studied with the possibility of their publication in Gems and Gemology Magazine in the future.  GIA's Robert Weldon took the photos during the recent Tucson Show.  The items were taken back to GIA Carlsbad for study.

We will keep our customers informed as we obtain more information in the future…

Gemstones in Cutting:

Our hopes of increasing our Opal inventory with large fine quality Opals have been dashed.  After removing the mud/matrix from what seemed to be outstanding Opal, we were left with smaller pieces after trimming out issues, grinding down areas, etc.  This represents a loss of thousands of dollars, but this is the risk when one purchases rough material - as one is never sure what the final outcome will be…

Still More Customers from Australia Find All That Glitters in the Month of February!:

We have been selling and shipping gemstones to Australia for decades now, but there has been a large number of newly added customers from Australia over the past month.  As a reminder, gemstones of high value will be shipped by FedEx and insured in full via a third party.  Smaller valued items can be shipped via USPS with limited insurance.  Gemstones of high value will require a wire (bank to bank) transfer of funds, similar to what is also required for similar sales in the US and other countries.  We believe that our most recent sale of a large unheated GIA certed Sapphire saved our Australian customer many thousands of dollars off the expected wholesale price of this gemstone and far more when one considers what the markup would have been on the retail level…  Welcome to all those new customers from Australia!