All That Glitters Website and Info Changes for April 2024!

 

Here are the changes on the All That Glitters Website for April 2024:

 

This Month's Special:   Take 10% OFF ANY Spessartite Garnet!

This Months Gem News relates to Spessartite Garnet and as does our Monthly Special.

Take 10% Off Any Spessartite Garnet – Our Prices haven’t changed in perhaps a decade or more, typically priced at when a gemstone was purchased for inventory and the All That Glitters Collection – a great deal back then and now an even more Super Deal

Visit our Monthly Special Page to Learn More…

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

 

This Month’s Gem News:  Learn More About Spessartite Garnet

An International Gem Society (IGS) Article which also has a Photo of Two Spessartite Garnet Cabs from the All That Glitters Collection!

Visit our Monthly Gem News Page to Learn More…

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

https://www.gemsociety.org/article/spessartite-garnet/

 

Newly Faceted or Newly Photographed Gemstones: 

All That Glitters Rough sent ot one of our Specialty Facetors, is back and includes:

Five Ametrines, One very large elongated oval, one standard flat faceted and three of which are unique in cutting style!  (One has been sold)

Four Oregon Sunstones – all very different including in color, some with schiller and in design (One has been sold)

One Lab Grown Round Alexandrite – full of life and various flashes of color!

LuAl Lab Grown Garnet – You’ve never seen a gemstone glow like this…Literally!  (Sold)

Two Blue Flash Amethysts – Not many of these are seen in the market.

Two Color Shifting African Garnets (Ruby Red, Magenta and Burgundy depending on lights)

…And lots more recently added since the beginning of the year, including some important rings!

Visit Our Newly Photographed Page to See What is New…

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

 

Gemstones in Cutting:  

Currently have about 22 pieces of rough in the hands of one of our Specialty Facetors and we are expecting about 25 pieces to be returned in about a month or so.  A few pieces will be cut in half and it is possible that one piece, due to the size/weight (LuAl Lab Garnet) will not only be cut in two to create smaller/lighter gems, but a pair might be created for earrings for someone who is potentially waiting in the wings for this piece of rough to be faceted.

Of these pieces currently in cutting, we have:

Ametrine, High Quality Oregon Sunstone, 7 pieces of Blue Flash Amethyst (the last of our rough and it is no longer available to obtain from this locality), Lab Grown Alexandrite, LuAl Garnet (Lab), and two pieces of Brandy Colored Ukranian Topaz.  We are very excited about this Topaz because the color is special, these will be large pieces, this comes from a famous deposit where the Topaz can grow as a Bi-Color Topaz – naturally occurring Blue Topaz and this Brandy Color together in one crystal.  You can sometimes see this on the market faceted as  bi-color gemstone, but in order to have decent saturation in the color, they typically have to be larger gems.  Very interesting and a collectors gem for those in the know.  In the case of these pieces, the rough was removed from the brandy colored section of the rough.

There is very little new rough presently and we already have representations faceted from that rough, including:  Blue Flash Amethyst, Blended Ametrine, Tourmaline, Color Change Diaspore, Yellow Beryl, Color Change Garnet, Umbalite and Rhodolite Garnet, Oregon Sunstone, Synthetic Alexandrite and others….

 

What Else is New on the All That Glitters Website?:

We have added two more payment methods for our customers:  Zelle and Cashpay

(Cashpay will be an option in Square, as well as credit cards and ACH)

 

New Page Added to our Learn More Page:

We wanted to share the page regarding lectures/discussions at the Tucson 2024 Gem and Mineral Show this year, which contained important Trade Info that we thought All That Customers would find interesting/insightful.  This was March’s Monthly Gem News.  Therefore, we have made it a permanent page on our Learn More page

https://www.atggems.com/Learn_More.htm

 

What Has All That Glitters Been Involved in Recently?:

We have been quite busy logging the newly arrived faceted gems into our database, doing photos and some videos, creating tables/html code, calculating yield/costs/pricing, uploading all to our website server.  Also, weighing, photographing and documenting what is in the new parcel sent to our cutter.  Lots of work related to creating the label, doing paperwork, packaging and visiting the post office – as we are mandated to have the package scanned in order for the insurance for this high value package to be valid.  Sales this year have been pretty strong from the public, collectors and the trade in general.