Gem Market Highlights - Fall/Winter 1998

Mine Design
9135 Sheridan Drive
Clarence, NY 14031
716-634-9400, Fax 716-633-3984

Fall/Winter 1998 Edition
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Posted October 19, 1998
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THE GEM MARKET HIGHLIGHTS

The Denver, CO gem and mineral show, September 11-13, this year marked the start of our fall season and it is now in full motion for us with lots of sales going on. This is also the same time that we increase our inventories to meet the heavy demand for quality gemstones by collectors and jewelers for their Christmas Season. We have had several new shipments of gems come in from our cutters in Bangkok and rough from Africa. Denver proved to be a great place to find some bargains in rough and cut gems this year too.

Our Fall inventory includes: Tsavorite garnets from E. Africa, Mail Garnets (these are a mixture of Andradite and Grossular, also know as Grandite), Color Change Garnets, Chinese and Pakistan Peridot, White Zircons in rounds and trillion shapes, several extremely well cut Aquamarines from Brazil and a whole ton (well almost a ton) of custom cut collector gems such as Color Change Diaspore, Burma Danburite, Scheelite, Phenakite, Apatite, Chrysoberyl, Green Grossular Garnet, Sphene from Madagascar and India, Kornerupine, Scapolite, Lazulite, Brazilianite, Euclase, Amblygonoite and many more. Oh yes, and finally some Pink Morganites from Brazil in fancy shapes.

Lighting at the trade shows has been a major problem for many years and we now have the solution: it is called SoLux(. Finally, after many months of testing every manufacturers' low voltage track lighting fixtures and finding poor results we decided to manufacture our own fixture that puts out 12 volts under load. We now can offer the SoLux( Daylight Lamps with the proper fixture to solve your lighting needs for gemstones and other lighting solutions. This is one of the most exciting lighting options to become available in many years and we are extremely excited to be part of this new revolution. See more information and pricing on the inside page and more detailed information at our website listed below.

The Spectrum Network( is located on the Web at http://www.gemdata.com and is a World Wide Web system dedicated to Colored Gemstones and information. Last month this system saw over 18,000 hits to its home page and is growing. This WWW system offers many great features that are service oriented. Some of these features are the Gem, Mineral and Jewelry Show Calendar, the AGTA's Gemstone Enhancement Manual and How to Select a Gemstone (The Five C's). Now TSN offers you the Gems-and-Facets mailing list and where you can receive and interact with others for the latest in gemstone information.

See you at the shows or on the Web, Regards,
Lance A. Kanaby

Member of the American Gem Trade Association, The Jewelers Board of Trade,
Clarence Chamber of Commerce and The Spectrum Network™