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AMAZING GRACE · Gemstone Guide

Gemstone Guide

Understand quality, discover beauty

Explore how gemstones form, what gives them colour, and what origin, treatment and laboratory reports mean, to make better-informed choices.

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Two polished diamonds from the Amazing Grace archive
Volume 1Diamonds and Coloured Gemstones

The Story

Five gemstones, five distinct characters

Explore how each gemstone forms and what makes it distinctive.
Face-up polished diamond
Understanding Diamond

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Diamonds

Understanding Diamond

From carbon crystals deep within the earth to rough stones, cutting, the 4Cs, Type IIa and laboratory reports: a connected guide to understanding diamonds.
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Coloured Gemstones

What gives gemstones their colours?

Reference images and credits

Coloured gemstone photographs are reference material for educational purposes, rather than items offered for sale by the salon.

FROM THE JOURNAL

Stories from our workshop

Explore our earlier articles, from appreciating gemstones to visiting the places where we source them.
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Understanding gemstones

Four perspectives
on a gemstone

  1. Colour

    Hue, tone and saturation: see the actual colour, rather than the name alone.

  2. Origin

    Origin provides context and should be considered separately from the quality of an individual stone.

  3. Treatment

    Understand what heating or enhancement has changed.

  4. Gemstone Report

    Learn what a laboratory report can, and cannot, tell you.

This guide provides gemstone and laboratory information. It does not guarantee price movements or resale liquidity.

Understand gemstones, choose with confidence

Understand gemstones, choose with confidence

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