The Lab Gem Supplier

Autumn brings a chill to the air and winter winds can be downright frigid, but this fall and winter you can count on your jewelry to keep you warm. Deep, rich, warm colored lab-created gems and cubic zirconia will dominate jewelers’ color palate this fall and winter. Lab-created stones will be favored over natural gems [...]

A variety of the mineral chrysoberyl, natural alexandrite is a chameleon gem, changing color with the light. In bright daylight, alexandrite appears green, but turns a rich wine red under incandescent lighting. Chrysoberyl gets it usual yellow to yellow-green color from the presence of iron. It is the presence of chromium in the chemical mix [...]

A diamond as big as your thumb, maybe even your fist that is absolutely, perfectly flawless. It’s the stuff of jewelers’ dreams. It would have to be an amazing fluke of nature, a thing of mystic legend rather than raw reality. But in the not so distant future, it could become a common occurrence in laboratories [...]

The world’s richest diamond mine has closed its doors and laid off its workers, a victim of the disastrous world economy. The mothballing of the Botswana mine is a blow to the economy of the impoverished African country where diamonds generate one-third of the annual gross domestic product. Global demand for diamonds has collapsed, led by [...]

The popularity of AMC’s sexy, smart series Mad Men is driving the return of the big, gem-encrusted brooch. Set in 1960′s New York City, Mad Men immerses cable viewers in the high stakes world of Madison Avenue advertising back when men still ruled the board room, women wore dresses, you could still smoke at your desk, and the [...]

The undisputed king of gemstones, the rich red ruby has been considered one of Earth’s most valuable natural gems for thousands of years. Representing love, passion and power, the blood-red ruby has graced the turbans of Indian maharajas, the crowns of European kings and the fingers of famous — and very rich — socialites and [...]

Last year a California woman accused Jewelry Television of Knoxville, Tennessee of fraudulent advertising and misrepresentation in selling treated gems without full disclosure. According to an online article posted on National Jeweler, the $5 million class action suit sought to recover money spent by thousands of cable shoppers who believed they were purchasing “highly-coveted, extremely [...]

The Cubic Zirconia Padparadschah Oval is one of the jewelry industry’s more unusual products. It is an inexpensive lab creation of one of the world’s rarest, most expensive gems, the padparadschah sapphire. Bearing the Sinhalese name for “lotus flower,” this unusually colored sapphire is a seductive pink-orange variety of corundum that is so delicate and rare [...]

Of all the materials used to simulate natural diamonds, cubic zirconia is the most successful with a visual appearance usually indistinguishable from nature’s most valuable gem creation. While created in the lab, cubic zirconia does exist in minute, commercially irrelevant amounts in nature. A cubic crystalline form of zirconium dioxide with the same isometric crystallography [...]

Lab created gems have the same optical, physical and chemical properties as natural gems. In fact, lab created gems are strictly regulated by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). In order to be labeled lab created, lab grown or synthetic, all synonymous terms according to the FTC, lab gems must have “essentially the same optical, physical, [...]