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No 1 (Jan-Mar 1995) - No 12 (Oct-Dec 2003)

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Vol 21 Number 12, October - December 2003 (follow link to expand)

GEOFF TOMBS MEMORIAL ISSUE No. 2

HISTORY OF EDUCATION IN THE GAA

Bill Sechos 

THE DEVELOPMENT OF VALUATION TECHNOLOGY IN AUSTRALIA

Peter Gerrard 

SPECTRA OF GEM MATERIALS

Grant Pearson

GEOFFERY TOMBS  - A pointer to inspiration

Trevor Linton

LAMBINA OPALFIELD - An update

Jack Townsend

DIAMOND GRADING FOR THE MYOPIC

Ronnie Bauer

AN INTERESTING AUSTRALIAN ABALONE PEARL

Susan M. B. Kelly 
Grahame Brown

Vol 21 Number 11, July - September 2003 (follow link to expand)

GEOFF TOMBS MEMORIAL ISSUE No. 1

NOTES ON THE IDENTIFICATION OF GILSON SYNTHETIC OPAL

G.A. Tombs

35 YEARS ON A NEW LOOK AT SYNTHETIC OPAL

Anthony Smallwood

AUSTRALIAN GEMSTONES IN MEMORY OF GEOFF TOMBS

Rudy Weber

THE HISTORY AND IMPORTANCE OF HEAT TREATMENT OF AUSTRALIAN SAPPHIRE

Terry Coldham

CORUNDUM CONUNDRUM

Boyd Sweeney

SYNTHETIC-LIKE FLUORESCENCE IN NATURAL SAPPHIRE

G.A. Tombs

Vol 21 Number 10, April - June 2003 (follow link to expand)

RARE GEM MINERAL DEPOSITS FROM BRAZIL
PART 2: LAZULITE AND SCORZALITE

Dr Mario Luiz de Sį C. Chaves,
Dr Joachim Karfunkell,
Dr Adolf Heinrich Horn,
Dr. Donald B. Hoover

LIMITATIONS OF THE PAVILION DEPTH RAPID SIGHT ESTIMATES METHOD

Garry Holloway
RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE GROOVE DENSITY OF THE GRATING STRUCTURE AND THE STRENGTH OF IRIDESCENCE IN MOLLUSC SHELLS Y. Liu,
K.N. Hurwit,
Dr L. Tian

AN UNUSUAL CRYSTAL FROM THE CENTRAL QUEENSLAND SAPPHIRE FIELDS

Roy Beattie
GEM QUALITY PETALITE FROM MYANMAR (BURMA) U Kyaw Khaing Win,
Ted Themelis

LARGE OPL™ DIFFRACTION GRATING SPECTROSCOPE

G.A.A. Instrument Evaluation Committee Report
T. Linton, A.Cumming, K.Hunter
DIAMOND CUT GRADING BASED ON RED REFLECTION INSTRUMENTS Trevor Linton,
Carry Holloway

Vol 21 Number 9, January - March 2003 (follow link to expand)

MORPHOLOGY OF DIAMOND CRYSTALS FROM THE BINGARA RANGE,
NORTHERN NEW SOUTH WALES, AUSTRALIA
Julian D. Hollis
Cluff Resources Pacific N.L., Hornsby, NSW

A COMPILATION OF INFRARED ABSORBTION SPECTRA OF SOME SPECIFIC GEMSTONES

S. Fernandes, M. Khan, G. Choudhary

GENESIS AND GEMMOLOGY OF SAPPHIRES FROM THE NEZAMETNOYE DEPOSIT, PRIMORYE REGION, RUSSIA

Alexandr Khanchuk, Boris Zalishchak, Vera Pakhomova,
Ella Odarichenko, Valeril Sapin

Vol 21 Number 8, October - December 2002 (follow link to expand)

UPDATE OF AUSTRALIA'S GEMSTONE & PEARL RESOURCES Grahame Brown

COLOUR IN QUARTZ: FROM ATOMIC SUBSTITUTIONS TO NANOINCLUSIONS

Paulo Vasconcelos, Ben Cohen, Nick Calos

THE PROCESSING & HEAT TREATMENT OF SUBERA
(QUEENSLAND) SAPPHIRE ROUGH
 

Mark Maxwell

AUSTRALIAN SEDIMENTARY OPAL - WHY IS AUSTRALIA UNIQUE

David Horton
THE MYSTERY ABOUT COLOURED DIAMONDS Clive Carrington
AGATE CREEK AGATES Paul Howard

Vol 21 Number 7, July - September 2002 (follow link to expand)

CLASSIFICATION OF TYPE 1 NATURAL OPAL Josef Schellnegger

SYNTHESIS OF ALL-SILICA PRECIOUS OPAL

S.V. Filin, A.I. Puzynin, V.N. Samoilov

NEW AUSTRALIAN IMITATION GEMSTONES

G. Brown, T. Linton

TREATED ORANGE SAPPHIRES FROM THAILAND

Terry Coldham

Vol 21 Number 6, April-June 2002 (follow link to expand)

MEXICAN GEM OPALS
NANO- AND MICRO-STRUCTURE, ORIGIN OF COLOUR,
COMPARISON WITH OTHER COMMON OPALS OF GEMMOLOGICAL SIGNIFICANCE
E. Fritsch, M. Ostrooumov,
B. Rondeau, A. Barreau,
D. Albertini, A.-M. Marie,
B. Lasnier, J. Wery

THE MAGNETIC INDEX

W. Wm. Hanneman

SPECTROSCOPIC PROPERTIES OF MÖNG HSU RUBY

S. Siripaisarnpipat,
T. Pattharakorn,
S. Pattharakorn,
S. Sanguanruang,
N. Koonsaeng,
S. Achiwawanich,
M. Promsurin,
P. Hanmungthum

INTERESTING AMERICAN OPALS: WOOD REPLACEMENT

John I Koivula,
Maha Tannous
LOUISIANA OPAL Grahame Brown
GEMMOLOGICAL STUDY OF CORUNDUM FROM MADAGASCAR Junko Shida
RECENT OBSERVATIONS OF COMPOSITE STONES Dr Ulrich Henn

Vol 21 Number 5, January-March 2002 (follow link to expand)

FIVE CENTURIES OF MEXICAN PEARLS Douglas McLaurin Moreno,
Enrique Arimendi Castillo

STAR GARNETS FROM ILAKAKA, MADAGASCAR 

Dr. K. Schmetzer,
Dr. H.-J. Bernhardt

THE SPRINGSURE DEPOSIT OF PRECIOUS OPAL

Roy Beattie

GEMCHECKER PROFESSIONAL VALUATION & APPRAISAL MODULE

T. Linton, K. Frazer

CORUNDUM/SPINEL REACTION TEXTURES IN CARBONATE-ORIGIN ROCKS, SRI LANKA
- Preliminary Observations

M.D.P.L.Francis,
P.C.R. Dharmaratne

Vol 21 Number 4, October-December 2001 (follow link to expand) 

DISPERSION MEASUREMENT WITH THE 
GEMMOLOGIST’S REFRACTOMETER
- Part 2
D.B. Hoover, Trevor Linton

BRANDT PROPORTION LOUPE

T. Linton, A. Cumming,
N.
Masson, B. Sweeney

Rare Australian ornamental materials - ZEBRA ROCK
AN ORNAMENTAL STONE FROM THE 
EAST KIMBERLEY, WESTERN AUSTRALIA

Dr A.W.R. Bevan

STAUROLITE FROM THE LAI HKA AND MONG KENG AREAS, MYANMAR

U Tin Hlaing

IDENTIFICATION OF GE POLŌ DIAMONDS

E. Fritsch, J.-P. Chalain, H. Hänni

Vol 21 Number 3, July-September 2001 (follow link to expand) 

GEMSTONES OF MINAS GERAIS, BRAZIL I.J. Townsend
EXPLORATION FOR DIAMONDS IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA Dr Kevin Wills
THE MAKING OF SYNTHETIC RUBIES Dr John Ward
THE GEM EMPORIUM IN MYANMAR A/Professor U Tin Hlaing
AN OVERVIEW OF CHINA'S PEARL INDUSTRY Hao Xie, Liping Li
NOTES FROM THE MUSEUM FOCUSING ON TRAVERTINE Gayle Webb 
Ti-Fe MINERAL INCLUSIONS IN STAR SAPPHIRES FROM THAILAND Seriwat Saminpanya PhD, FGA, GG
MACRO & MICRO ANATASE-RUTILE COMBINATIONS IN QUARTZ John I. Koivula, Maha Tannous

Vol 21 Number 2, April - June 2001 (follow link to expand)

CHARACTERISATION OF A NEW CHINESE HYDROTHERMALLY GROWN EMERALD

Chen Zhenqiang, Zeng Jiliang Cai Keqin  Zitang Changlong, Zhou Weining

DISCLOSURE - GEMSTONES AND SYNTHETICS - DOES THE JEWELLERY INDUSTRY CARE?

Tay Thye Sun

THE GEMSTONE OCCURRENCES OF MADAGASCAR

Dr Ulrich Henn, Dr Claudio Milisenda

SCOTTISH GEM LAB NEWS

Alan Hodgkinson

DISPERSION, BIREFRINGENCE, AND THE CRITICAL ANGLE REFRACTOMETER

W. Wm. Hanneman

ORNAMENTAL VARIETY OF PINK MARBLE WITH APATITE FOUND NEAR EPPAWALA, SRI LANKA

M.D.P.L. Francis, Professor P.G.R. Dharinaratne FGA, FCG

Vol 21 Number 1, January - March 2001 (follow link to expand)

TOURMALINE AND AQUAMARINE DEPOSITS FROM BRAZIL

J. César-Mendes, H. Jort-Evangelista, R. Wegner

JADE: OCCURRENCE AND METASOMATIC ORIGIN

G.E. Harlow, 
S.S. Sorensen

BRAZILIAN GEM PROVINCES

C.P. Pinto  A,C. Pedrosa-Soares

EMERALD DEPOSITS - A REVIEW

D. Schwarz, G. Giuliani

GEM TOURMALINE CHEMISTRY AND PARAGENESIS

W.B. Simmons, K.L. Webber, 
A.U. Falster, J.W. Nizamoff

ORIGIN OF GEM CORUNDUMS FROM BASALTIC FIELDS

F.L. Sutherland, 
D. Schwatz

THE GEOLOGY OF AUSTRALIAN OPAL DEPOSITS

I.J. Townsend

VIEWPOINT
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING

W.Wm.Hanneman