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Join us at the Tokyo International Mineral Autumn Fair 2024! 🌍✨

📅 Date: 2024/10/4 (Fri) 10:00 - 2024/10/7 (Mon) 16:00

📍 Venue: Shinjuku Sumitomo Building Triangle Plaza, Tokyo 🔖 Booth/Stand: A8 and A9 @tima_shinjuku

Come explore a stunning array of minerals and gemstones, and don’t miss the chance to discover our latest offerings! We can’t wait to see you there! 💎

Finally have a minute to catch my breath! Sorry for the delay, Easter weekend jam-packed itself while I wasn’t looking. Here are the photographs from day two of the rock expo!

First: that SLAB of Lapis I was goin on about

Did you know Lapis Lazuli glows under black light? The Lazuli part fluoresces. Speaking of fluorescence, Let’s talk about Fluorite! Yes, both words come from the same root, the Latin “fluere,” which means “to flow.”

This wavy fluorite bowl was longer than my forearm, as was the cookie-colored Onyx bowl behind it.

This one would taste like a purple otter pop if you licked it, I think:

If ever there was a rock pretty enough to eat though, it’d be Amber. The rich honey tone of this rock reminds me of the inside of our old behive, all aswarm with glossy golden bodies and irridescent wings.

Bring me some royal jelly, becauseI feel like a queen wearing this beautiful sample:

The convention also served as a venue for adjacent trades. There were many booths devoted to spirituality and crystal healing. There were booths looking less to sell, and more to educate, such as this well-labeled display of specimines:

And then there booths like this one, which sold lamps, with wares pretty enough to rival pearls.

Oh! The pearls! 

These are Baroque Pearls. They represent a conundrum of the gemstone world: The more even and regular a stone is, the more likely it is to be fake, but when natural stones are even and regular, they’re worth more. 

That slab of Lapis from the start is very, very high quality, which you can tell because of its deep, even blue. There’s few veins of other, contaminating minerals. However, you can tell it’s genuine from the uneaven stripe of whitish stone running down the center.

Because Baroque Pearls are defined as any pearl which is irregular in size, shape, or color, it’s easy to tell if they’re genuine. However, since they’re so uneven, they’re considered a less expensive form of pearl. Figures!

As a palate cleanser, here’s bucket of raw garnets

And finally, the last picture from the fair, some sparkly zirconium, cut for jewelry:

The Expo worried me at first, because it started with little entrance room in the front full of evenly spaced, comercially availiable, and largely manufactured gems. This humble front fooled me. I entered the grand hall and was absolutely floored.

Pearls, pearls as far as the eye could see!!

The immense space was taken up by booth after booth of piled up precious stones. There were strings of Labradorite, Garnets the size of quarters, precious stones set into rings of real gold and sterling silver. All of it glittered.

Dazzling as this collection of rings are, they function here as a mere precursor, an excuse to discuss the slab of solid, pure, deep blue Lapis awaiting me three booths in. There were two of them, both larger than a breadboard or a boardgame of Risk. Before today I didn’t know it formed in such large veins.

While most of the stones were ment to be handled by customers, this little guy came with his very own “don’t tread on me.” Look closely. Those fuzzy-looking white shards coming off the main crystal structure are sharp as cactus quills.

I wish I had the space- and photos!- to describe every gem and geode I saw today. There were rubies and topaz and big dragon-eggs of malachite. That’s not even mentioning the quartz! You will have to content yourselves with imagining the rest. I leave you with the final image: please note that this splenderous array was a small and inconsequential portion of the event. Here, this genuine turquoise and these strings of amethyst were as common as bread and butter. 

I entered thinking I knew the wealth of the world. I left humbled, dazzled, and absolutely floored.

Jewellery, Pearl & Gem Fair Hyderabad

Schedule: Fri, 28 – Sun, 30 May 2021  

Venue 📍 HITEX Exhibition Center, Hyderabad, Telangana  

Event Information  

The Jewellery, Pearl & Gem Fair is the most important fair for the international jewelry industry in India's space. An excellent platform to present new collections, to attract potential customers and business contacts to build. Honoured interested parties, due to the effects of the corona virus, the fair will be postponed to this new date.  

The Jewellery, Pearl & Gem Fair will take place on 3 days from Friday, 28. May to Sunday, 30. May 2021 in Hyderabad.  

De Beers 將推出一款能追蹤和認證鑽石的 APP Gemfair

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