Modern Jeweler’s Consumer Guide to Colored Gemstones - download pdf or read online

By David Federman

ISBN-10: 1468464906

ISBN-13: 9781468464900

considering early 1989, a gem broker i have recognized for years has been calling me each few weeks to short me on mounting mayhem in Colombia's profitable emerald industry. The troubling gist of those calls is often this: there's a full-fledged turf conflict occurring among that South American country's bustling drug and gem trades for keep an eye on of its emerald ex­ port company. based on this broker and several other others, at any place from to 4 thousand emerald humans, typically miners and deal­ ers, were murdered in view that 1980. doubtless the gem region, itself by no means gun shy, has retaliated in complete and in type. finally, the 2 teams have banded jointly in an intermittent alliance opposed to a standard enemy-Communist guerillas-with effects the CIA could envy. I point out this bloodshed as a result of whatever the gem broker as soon as acknowledged to me: "I wager you by no means give some thought to what a gem has to head via to get to a jewellery store:' he is correct. I are inclined to examine coloured stones as issues of good looks, now not items of grotesque energy struggles among mining kingpins and drug lords. are you able to blame me, or a person with insider wisdom, if a gem sheds any reference to its previous as soon as sculpted through a cutter into the glittering mar­ vel we see in a jeweler's show off? Like Odysseus hearing the sirens' tune, we turn into sufferers of an aesthetics-induced amnesia.

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