Formally, I’m known as “clinochlore,” but if it’s sales you’re after, I recommend yet another name.
Lots of correct answers, but only one winner — Jerrod Nutt of Thacker Jewelry in Lubbock, TX.
I was the "it" stone of 2015. Who am I?
Congratulations to our winner, Stephanie Watkins from Marshall Granger Jewelers.
Color, luminosity, hardness and rarity — I've got it all.
Way to go, Kim Hatchell, sales manager at Galloway & Moseley in Sumter, SC.
Me, and my cousins, make up much of the earth's crust.
Our winner is Steve Glazer, sales director at Windsor Jewelers in Charlotte, NC.
If Chuck Norris were a gemstone-quality piece of ancient reef, he’d be a lot like me: tough, rare and going it alone on a 400-million-year-old beach...
Our winner this month is Kathlene Seville from Artisans Unlimited in Bucyrus, OH, who correctly identified May’s mystery stone — sillimanite, named in honor of the...
Andalusite, kyanite, and me, We few, we happy few, We happy band of polymorphous alumino-silicates … OK, so Henry V I may not be, but I...
And congratulations to our winner.
This gem is named for a great czar. Credit: Omi Gems. A lot of things can turn from green to red — an upcoming traffic light,...
This month’s gem quiz winner is Katie Dye from J. David Jewelry in Tulsa, OK. And congratulations to our winner. On occasion it takes someone with...
This month’s gem quiz winner is Robb Arbour of Estate Jewelers in Toledo, OH. And congratulations to our winner. February’s gem quiz was a bit more...
I was once one of those minerals most aptly described as “of interest to collectors only,” but recent scientific research has found uses for me as...
And congratulations to our winner. Gary Hurdle, sales manager at Casa de Oro in Corpus Christi, TX, is the winner of January’s Gem Quiz. Gary crushed...
All gemstones send different tales from the center of the earth; mine has to do with how I occur (very sporadically) in marble formed when granitic...
And congratulations to our winner. Derrick Allen, the winner of our latest Gem Quiz, admits the stone in question had puzzled him long before he picked up the...
Imagine the shock. For millions of years we thought we were one and the same … until that fateful day in 1803, when the formidable rock...
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