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‘One of the rarest’: Albuquerque turquoise expert shares insight on the gemstone

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) — It’s a “hydrated phosphate of copper,” but you may just know it as turquoise. The blue-green mineral widely regarded as a gemstone has significant deposits across the world, ...
Tyler Morning Telegraph

East Texas resident unearths rare 500-carat gem in his yard

A Carthage man may have unearthed one of the rarest gemstones in the world — not in a mine, but in his own front yard. Robert ...
Fox 23

RSU professor and student unearth rare fossil gemstone

CLAREMORE, Okla. — A professor and a student from RSU unearthed a rare exceptionally preserved fossil gemstone. Professor Dr. Chris Shelton and RSU student Kolby Dooling discovered a preserved ...
Indiatimes

From forgotten valley to museum: This rare, tiny orange gem from the 'valley of rubies' is the only one of its kind across the world

Kyawthuite, a unique mineral, was discovered in Myanmar's Chaung-Gyi Valley in 2010 and recognized in 2015. The single known specimen, a reddish-orange gem, is housed at the Natural History Museum of ...
Digital Journal

Century of expertise meets cutting-edge technology in The Rare Gemstone Company’s master craftsman approach

Half a century ago, when bell-bottoms ruled fashion and disco dominated dance floors, somewhere in East Africa, Antony Zagoritis was hard at work laying the foundation for what would become a jewel in ...

East Texas man unearths 500-carat rare gemstone in his yard

The stone, first discovered in Russia in the 1800s, is rarely found outside a handful of places such as the Ural Mountains, ...