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No 1 (Jan-Mar 1998) - No 12 (Oct-Dec 2000)

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Vol 20 Number 12, October - December 2000 (follow link to expand)

DISPERSION MEASUREMENT WITH THE GEMMOLOGIST’S REFRACTOMETER

T. Linton
Wellington Point, Queensland, Australia

NovaDiamond TM
COLOUR ENHANCED YELLOW AND YELLOW-GREEN DIAMONDS

Amanda S. Barnard
Melbourne, Victoria

RARE AUSTRALIAN GEMSTONES
MOONSTONE
A rare Queensland gemstone

Hylda Bracewell
Brisbane, Queensland

RUSSIAN COLOURLESS SYNTHETIC DIAMOND
Now available in the market

Joe C. C. Yuan
New York

AUSTRALIA'S GEMSTONE RESOURCES & THEIR MARKETS

Grahame Brown
Editor of The Australian Gemmologist

Vol 20 Number 11, July - September 2000 (follow link to expand)

PRESENT RUSSIAN SYNTHETIC AND ENHANCED GEMSTONES

Professor Vladamir S. Balitsky

DIFFRACTION COLOURS OF OPAL

Mikhail Ostrooumov
Han A. Talay

NEW FIND OF GEM QUALITY UVAROVITE IN TIBET

He Xuemei
Cai Kequin
Gong Shan

REFLECTIVITY OF SYNTHETIC MOISSANITE

T. Linton

CHIASTOLITE FROM KYAUSE, MYANMAR

U Tin Hlaing
UNUSUAL INCLUSIONS IN QUARTZ John I. Koivula

PRESIDIUM MOISSANITE TESTER

T. Linton,
K. Hunter

CHINESE PEARLS: Their culturing and trading

Guo Tao

Vol 20 Number 10, April - June 2000 (follow link to expand)

THE SLOCAN VALLEY SAPPHIRE DEPOSIT NELSON,
BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA

Robert R. Coenraads, James W. Laird

PAPERS ON OPAL
previously published in THE AUSTRALIAN GEMMOLOGIST

Editorial Management Committee

NELSON M17 GEMSTONE COOLING UNIT

T. Linton, B. Bretherton

SYNTHETIC FRESNOITE - A NEW GEMSTONE SIMULANT

Dr. Ulrich Henn

WHAT'S NEW IN GEM TESTING INSTRUMENTS
THE BREWSTER-ANGLE METER

T. Linton, K. Hunter, A. Cumming (Qld)
N. Masson, G. Pearson (Vic)
THE HANNEMAN REFRACTOMETER T. Linton, K Hunter, A. Cumming (Qld)

CAVEAT EMPTOR

Franz H. Thrupp

WHERE THE MONSOON COMES EARLIER
The story of a personal journey of discovery

U Tin Hlaing

Vol 20 Number 9, January - March 2000 (follow link to expand)

A PRELIMINARY INVESTIGATION OF PRECIOUS OPAL BY LASER RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY Anthony Smallwood
DIAMOND PROOVER II T. Linton, A. Cumming, K. Hunter
IN DEFENSE OF GEMMOLOGISTS
A DIFFERENT VIEW ON NOMENCLATURE

W. Wm. Hanneman

A WARNING - BEWARE OF 1.815 REFRACTOMETER CONTACT FLUID Trevor Linton
CROWN ANGLE ESTIMATION FOR DIAMOND USING A 'TILT TEST' Garry Holloway
GEMS AROUND AUSTRALIA - Part 15 Hylda Bracewell
THE MERLIN DIAMOND MINING PROJECT
Part 1: An introduction
An editorial review
D-LIMONENE
A USEFUL IMMERSION LIQUID FOR GEMMOLOGY
T. Linton
A NEW DEPOSIT OF SMOKY QUARTZ CRYSTALS FROM THE TORRINGTON AREA Hylda Bracewell
RARE AUSTRALIAN GEMSTONES - STICHTITE R.S. Bottril, G. Brown

Vol 20 Number 8, October - December 1999 (follow link to expand)

THE VISIBLE ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY OF EMERALDS
FROM DIFFERENT DEPOSITS
Inessa I. Moroz, Michael L. Roth, Valery B. Deich
BROTHERS CORUNDUM: SAPPHIRES IN SRI LANKA M.M.M. Mahroof
RUBY FROM TUNDURU-SONGEA, EAST AFRICA
Some basic observations

G. Hamid, S.M.B. Kelly, G. Brown

A PERSONAL CRITIQUE of
'Modeling the appearance of the round brilliant cut diamond:
Analysis of brilliance' Gems & Gemology
Garry Holloway
CHATOYANT TREMOLITE (NEPHRITE) Geoffrey A Tombs AM, FGAA
VERNEUIL SYNTHETIC CORUNDUMS WITH INDUCED 'FINGERPRINTS' J. Free, I. Free, G. Brown, T. Linton
OUR PAST HISTORY: STATEMENT RESPECTING THE OPAL INDUSTRY AT WHITE CLIFFS T.C. Wollaston, Esq.

Vol 20 Number 7, July - September 1999 (follow link to expand)

CHARACTERISATION OF RECENT AND FOSSIL IVORY Dr Vanda Rolandi GG
THE NOMENCLATURE OF GEMSTONES
WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE GARNET AND
TOURMALINE MINERAL GROUPS
Eric L. Stevens BSc, MSc, MSc, FGAA, FGA
RUBY AND VARIOUSLY COLOURED SAPPHIRES
FROM ILAKAKA, MADAGASCAR
Dr. K. Schmetzer
THE EFFECT OF THE GAMMA-IRRADIATION DOSE COMBINED
WITH HEAT ON THE COLOUR ENHANCEMENT OF COLOURLESS QUARTZ

M. V. B. Pinheiro PhD, E S. Lameiras PhD
K. Krambrock PhD
J. Karfunkel PhD
J.B. da Silva

MONG HSU RUBY REVISITED
Some further data
U Tin Hlaing
EKATI
CANADA’S FIRST COMMERCIAL DIAMOND MINE
An editorial review
TESTER MODEL 590 FOR COLOURLESS MOISSANITE/DIAMOND V.M.E Hammer, J. Stefan

Vol 20 Number 6, April - June 1999 (follow link to expand)

GEOZOOLOGICAL PROSPECTING FOR GOLD AND GEMS D.M .Colhester
GEMMOLOGICAL MISCELLANY Grahame Brown
REFRACTOMETERS AND THE PIN-HOLE DISC T. Linton
WHITE CLIFFS: AUSTRALIA'S FIRST COMMERCIAL OPAL FIELD Gwen Rowe
EVALUATION OF A TEACHING AID FOR 'VISUAL OPTICS' T. Linton
LH - an "OLD" Gemological Property W. Wm. Hanneman
PEARLS AND PEARL OYSTERS IN THE GULF OF CAHFORNIA, MEXICO D. McLaurin, E. Arizmendi, S. Farell, M. Nava
GEMSTONES IN A NEW LIGHT Alan Hodgkinson
BURMITE - BURMESE AMBER U Tin Hlaing

Vol 20 Number 5, January - March 1999 (follow link to expand)

AUSTRALIAN CHINESE WRITING STONE Alex Bevan, Peter Downes, Jenny Bevan
GemScan II T. Linton, R. Pemberton, A. Cummimg, B. Sweeney, N. Masson
MAKING AN APPRAISAL OF JADEITE C.M. Ou Yang
A MISCELLANY OF ORGANICS: PART 2 Grahame Brown
NEW OPAL CARVING FACTORY AT KHAO YAI, THAILAND Robert R. Coenraads, Paul E. Elmer
SAPPHIRES FROM JIZERSKÁ LOUKA, CZECH REPUBLIC Petra Maliková

Vol 20 Number 4, October - December 1998 (follow link to expand)

HAS SCIENCE OVERTHROWN THE KING OF GEMS? Amanda Barnard
THE IDAR-OBERSTEIN GEMSTONE INDUSTRY'S 50TH ANNIVERSARY Prof. Dr Hermann Bank
EXPANDED SCALE REFRACTOMETER T. Linton, S. Sultman, J. Peters
ALASKAN JADE Paul Howard
SCOTTISH GEM LAB NEWS Alan Hodgkinson
ALEXANDRITE, EMERALD, RUBY, SAPPHIRE AND TOPAZ IN A BIOTITE PHLOGOPITE FELS FROM POONA, CUE DISTRICT WESTERN AUSTRALIA Günter Grundmann, Guilio Morteani

Vol 20 Number 3, July - September 1998 (follow link to expand)

TOURING THE DIAMOND FACTORIES OF AMSTERDAM Amanda Barnard
THE HODGKINSON METHOD, A.K.A. THE HODGKINSON METHOD: CLARIFYING THE RECORDS W. Wm. Hanneman
AMAZONITE IN SRI LANKAN TOPAZ
IDENTIFIED BY RAMAN ANALYSIS
John I. Koivula, Shane Elen
GEMS AROUND AUSTRALIA - PART 14 Hylda Bracewell
SYNTHETIC OPAL FROM AUSTRALIA Grahame Brown
ON THE IDENTIFICATION OF AMBER AND ITS IMITATIONS
USING RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY
T.S. Tay, Z.X. Shen, S.L. Yee
TREATED BLUE DIAMOND Bill Sechos
CAT'S-EYE BLACK OPAL Michael S. White

Number 2, April - June 1998 (follow link to expand)

An occurrence of microcrystalline opal, Nipple Mountain, Kelowna, British Colombia, Canada R. Coenraads, R.E. Pogson
Portable dark-fields B. Bretherton
Emerald chemistry from different deposits: An electron microscope study I.I. Moroaz, I.Z. Elizeri
Foreign affairs: Fracture healing/filling of Möng Hsu ruby R.W. Hughes, O. Galibert
New occurrence of demantoid in Namibia Th. Lind, U. Henn, H. Bank
Rare gem materials from Brazil. Part 1: Euclase and phenakite M.L.S.C. Chaves, J. Karfunkel, D.B. Hoover

Number 1, January - March 1998

Pearl Identification S.J. Kennedy
The Hodgkinson Method a.k.a. The eye and prism method: Some further adaptations D.B. Hoover
The 26th International Gemmological Conference G. Brown, G. Tombs