Our supply chain faces challenges like unsafe labor, mercury use, and habitat destruction, but many global initiatives are building a sustainable industry. Join Brandee Dallow, President Elect of Ethical Metalsmiths, as she highlights efforts across our industry. Be inspired by innovative projects and learn how to incorporate positive change into your business.Location: Meeting Room 201-203Sponsored […]

Get a behind-the-scenes look at how Chris James (@chrisjamesgems) grew from 300 to 100k+ followers in just a few months. This session offers step-by-step guidance on optimizing your Instagram plus practical tools and software tips for creating standout content. You’ll leave with the knowledge of how you can go viral on social media. It’s easier […]

Somewhere in the Ulu is a series of successful travelogues on social media covering Vincent Pardieu’s recent field expeditions to Afghanistan, Madagascar, East Africa, Tasmania, or Colombia. With them, VP grew his follower base from a few thousand to about 200,000 within a year. VP will share his most inspiring stories, exploring the complex realities […]

Market Trends and Seizing the Advantage of a Changing Price Structure. This presentation will explore supply and demand in the colored stone market, with a focus on current strengths and weaknesses. We will also explore the relationship between treatment type, extent of enhancement and its correlation to pricing in Emeralds and other stones. See what’s […]

Color types such as “pigeon’s blood,” “Paraíba” and “cobalt blue” have become wildly popular in the gem trade. But there is a vast difference between coining such terms and applying them in a way that is both consistent and logical. In this lecture Richard Hughes will cast a critical eye on the subject. Location: Meeting […]

This is an overview of the use of screening and identification instruments in the last 25 years, from a time when colorless laboratory-grown Diamonds (LGD) were rare, until now, with an industrywide shift towards LGD. The lecture includes images of growers, crystals, and statistics on the production and cutting of Diamonds at factories in India […]

Excavated jewelry from Jamestown, the first permanent English colony in North America, has been interpreted as evidence of Catholics amongst the first settlers. Country of origin determination for the jet items, however, could profoundly alter the previous narrative. In a 17th-century context marked by a fear of witchcraft, if proven to be British jet, we […]