All That Glitters Website and Info Changes for August 2020!
Here
are the changes on the All That Glitters Website for August 2020:
This Month's Special:
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our Monthly Special Page to Learn More…
This Month’s Gem News:
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More…
Newly Faceted or Newly Photographed Gemstones:
Five
Oregon Sunstones have just arrived back from our cutter and were quickly
photographed. We need to take better photos, perhaps add a video or two,
calculate our cost and put out more info in the very near future… We
anticipate that within one week, these will be ready for sale!
We
have attempted to obtain decent photos and videos of 3 Montana Sapphires – we
have found Sapphires from this location to be difficult to obtain accurate
color, show the brilliance, etc. They frequently color shift a bit
depending on the lights. We are not satisfied with the stills or the
videos, but thought we would post them for the time being. We have posted
2 ovals and 1 round.
A
large deeply saturated blue Aquamarine has just returned from being recut – so
now it has more life, sparkle/brilliance, a better polish and weighs
6.20cts. This was accomplished by one of our Award Winning Cutters whose
work is displayed in at least one museum that we are aware of.
Considering the prices of nicely saturated Aqua coming out of Zambia in the
early 1990s, ours is at the wholesale price at that time – 30 years ago!
Just
back from being certed (AGL):
Insanely Deep Blue Fancy Cut Aquamarine
Beautiful
1.60ct Pink Red UNHEATED Ruby
Many
others are still displayed on the Newly Photographed Page at the present time;
removal to occur in the near future, but they may still be found on their gemstone
species page.
Gemstones in Cutting:
We recently acquired Oregon Sunstone, hand-picked directly from
the claim owners recently mined personal stock. Three pieces will be
hand-grooved (3) and another few pieces will be flat faceted (5). These
will be cut by two of our very capable preferred U.S. cutters! (The five
piece group just arrived and have been quickly photographed, appearing on our
Newly Photographed page, but we need to obtain better photos and enter the
information.) Stay tuned for the other three pieces which should arrive
by the end of August! View our Newly Photographed Page every few days for
updates…
Two large 100ct Oregon Sunstones have been in the hands of the
multi-award winning cutter, Dalan Hargrave, for over 2 years. We are waiting for the spectacular results when they are completed!...
International Gem Society(IGS) Utilizing More All That Glitters
Photos for Articles!:
It is sometimes difficult to keep up with which All That Glitters
Gemstones are being used as representatives of cutting, their color, the
species, etc.
While perusing some IGS articles, we found three gems, an Iolite,
a Tourmaline, a Ruby and some of our Synthetic Alexandrite which is a big hit with
stores as well as the public; this is due to the savings not only from
the cost of natural Alex, but also for the fact that it retails at $495/ct and
we have it at about $100/ct!
(This is the only synthetic/lab grown material we carry as we can
provide a wonderful savings, can control the cutting and purchase it directly
from the U.S. lab.) IGS has just published an article on Tourmaline and notified us
that several of our photos (5) appear in the article. Unfortunately, it looks
like one needs a membership to view the article:
(https://www.gemsociety.org/article/tourmaline-buying-guide/).
(https://www.gemsociety.org/article/tourmaline-buying-guide/).
New Links!:
We have selected the Mahenge Garnet and Mahenge Spinel on their
respective gemstone species page, and created pages devoted to this locality
producing incredibly beautiful gems! (Deposit has been worked out for
some time now…)
Mahenge Garnet: http://www.allthatglitters.co/Photos_Garnet-Mahenge.htm
Mahenge Spinel: http://www.allthatglitters.co/Photos_Spinel-Mahenge.htm
Unfortunately, photography cannot capture the true color, sparkle and brilliance. All of the garnets have been faceted from our rough and in the US by our cutters.
Unfortunately, photography cannot capture the true color, sparkle and brilliance. All of the garnets have been faceted from our rough and in the US by our cutters.
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