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    GemExplorer, an iPhone application launched last year, has now been expanded to become a website. This gives you the possibility to navigate the world’s major sources of coloured gemstones, diamonds and pearls.


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Facette No. 19 now available

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SSEF On-site testing in Bangkok, May 2012

We will be in Bangkok 21-25 May 2012 offering our on-site testing services. Our office is in the...

25.04.2012

Facette No. 19 is published and available online

Our Facette brings you the latest news about our services and research activities. It comes fully...

28.02.2012

Study of historic turquoise imitations (odontolite) in last issue of Gems & Gemology

A recent SSEF study of brooches from the 19th century revealed that most gems were actually...

16.01.2012

New research on Bastnäsite from Pakistan

Recent research on the lesser-known mineral and gemstone Bastnäsite by Dr. Franz Herzog of SSEF....

02.01.2012

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