News Flash: Theft from Santa Barbara Museum

Dec 29 – A theft occurred at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History on the night of the 27th. [more…]

December & January’s Featured Specimens

This time we feature a two specimens acquired at the Munich Show: macedonian ruby and Namibian aquamarine. [more…]

Tucson Time Jan 31 – Feb 12, 2012

We’re looking forward to the world’s greatest mineral and gem show in Tucson. [more…]

Sainte-Marie Scission

A planned 2014 move of Euro-Mineral & Euro-Gem from Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines to nearby Colmar will take place two years early. But the Ste-Marie show will stay in Ste-Marie? [more…]

Missive from Munich

Pala’s first exhibition at The Munich Show in more than a decade was successful. [more…]

New Kid on the Blog

Our mining weblog has several new entries. Among them are the plats for the Esmeralda Mine and for the Mountain Lily Mine, Pala International’s newest acquisition. [more…]

Andesine Alley

New and older examinations of Tibetan material, including “A Study of Andesine Matrix Specimens Purported to be from Tibet.” [more…]

Web World

Two websites from Poland and Belgium take browsers on virtual trips into the mineral field. [more…]

Backlit Onyx

Backlit onyx is used in many locations, such as the Four Seasons Westlake Village and Introbar at Singapore’s Equinox Complex. [more…]

Pala Presents: The Igneous Rocks of the Mogok Stone Tract by Kyaw Thu

With Pala Presents, we offer selections from the library of Pala International’s Bill Larson. The first in our series is a PhD dissertation by Kyaw Thu. [more…]

Recycle Bin

• Phenomena in Norwegian Peridot
• Midnight Sunstone
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