Not every bride prefers a traditional diamond. More couples today are choosing engagement rings that feel personal and ...

Nilsen has replicated both the shapes and colours of each bead from the original Hoen Hoard. "I make the beads the same way ...

Cape Town in winter can get quite grey and damp, but these activities for you and the kids will put the colour back into your day. When the raindrops are sliding down the windows and the north-wester ...

Rather than sourcing only cut and polished stones — as is standard in the trade — he began selecting raw gems, asking cutters to shape them according to new aesthetic criteria developed in ...

A well-kept secret, however, has been their remarkable proficiency in the lapidary arts, specifically in the production in traditional styles of many important rock crystal objects, including ...

Fairmined gold, lost-wax casting, and narrative design—meet seven English jewellers leading the slow-made movement.

Hilary Farr has injected her iconic style into the homes of many clients. And the spaces that she's created in her own home ...

How do I know my stone is an agate? "Agates are sometimes hard to identify, even for the experts," Mary Ann St. Antoine, a senior environmental quality analyst in the Marquette District Office of ...

Additionally, investigations into agate occurrences within intermediate–felsic volcanic breccias in China have combined petrographic, spectroscopic, and geochemical approaches to establish that ...

Known for their colors and patterns, collectors are often amazed at agates that turn up on Upper Peninsula lakeshores, with ...

Scientific Reports (2024). [2] Origin and geochemistry of agates in Permian volcanic rocks of the Sub-Erzgebirge basin, Saxony (Germany). Chemical Geology (2016).