Their lands are known for delicate gold work and abundance of gemstones, especially turquoise. |
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There was also a dais in the center with a throne carved of jet and adorned with blood red gemstones. |
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Specimens of minerals, ores, and gemstones began to be saved for their scientific value and as natural curiosities. |
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Using plain white and ivory paper, straws and pipe cleaners, she creates faux gemstones, crystals and pearls. |
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Examples of various types of opal gemstones and opal jewelry are part of the exhibit. |
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Some of the material from the junction pockets was clear enough to produce fine gemstones. |
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The resulting bracelets and brooches were realised in gold and enamel, encrusted with a dazzling array of precious gemstones. |
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Reflecting his dominant emphasis on design rather than gemstones for visual impact, Tiffany chose beads of nephrite for the grapes. |
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The fabulous wealth of the Mughals is particularly demonstrated through the gemstones and jewellery that they collected. |
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The precious gemstones did not appear to be anything out of the ordinary, and simply hung benignly from their chains. |
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The speciality of these pieces is that the gemstones are powdered and used as base colours, which reflects the imagination of the artist. |
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As for the cut and polished gemstones the majority of the pieces that were purchased were calibrated. |
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His aqua eyes twinkled in the moonlight like gemstones on a lavish piece of jewelry. |
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Until recently few people considered Wyoming to have potential for gemstones other than nephrite jade. |
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The exhibition consists of jewelry, carved gemstones, inlaid hardstones, enamels and objects made from precious metals. |
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Then again, diamonds are way more expensive because diamonds are natural gemstones that are rare and are mined from the earth itself. |
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Eight Thai companies, meanwhile, currently invest in Sri Lanka, mostly in the Thai restaurant sector, gemstones sector, and agro-industry. |
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She stopped at a stand selling jewelry and rare gemstones, glancing over its inventory. |
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These jewelry settings are common when it comes to diamonds or other gemstones. |
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Adjacent to it was a golden ring with three polished gemstones inserted into it. |
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I propose that rough coloured precious gemstones should be exempt from customs duty just as rough semiprecious stones are. |
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In front of each chair lay a jeweled, ruby-encrusted goblet of wine, whose inlaid gemstones shone in the bright lamplight. |
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His work is known for the high quality of workmanship and the use of filigree, granulation, and engraved gemstones. |
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Garnet, emerald, jade, and lapis lazuli are among the gemstones created by metamorphic processes. |
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Zambia today boasts of some of the quality gemstones such as emeralds, amethyst, aquamarine and many others. |
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Here, gold foil is inserted between the gemstones and only 24 carat gold is used. |
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He got into full-time acting only eight years ago, before which he was a gemologist for 25 years, valuing and selling gemstones. |
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For instance, exporters of rough gemstones should start exporting finished gemstone products like rings and other jewellery, he said. |
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He is a dealer in gemstones and estate jewelry, with offices in Saint Louis and New York. |
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Thailand is internationally recognised for mining and cutting gemstones, especially sapphires and rubies. |
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We can dismiss the pre-scientific belief in the magical powers of crystals and gemstones as due to the lack of scientific knowledge. |
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Sometimes a merchant would stop by, looking for gemstones or precious metals that couldn't be found anywhere else. |
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In many of the pre-Columbian and North American cultures gemstones were admired for their physical properties as well. |
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He also found particles of gemstones such as corundum, garnet, rutile, and argentite. |
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Chapters 2-19 describe eighteen specific traditional gemstones or families, beginning with corundum and ending with rhodonite. |
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He specializes in the recovery of gemstones and mineral specimens and in the exploitation of high-grade ore deposits. |
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Synthetic zircon is used to make gemstones that resemble fine diamonds and as a refractory material in foundry molds and furnace linings. |
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Emerald, a green transparent variety of beryl, was one of the most highly prized gemstones in antiquity. |
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He said investing in down stream processing of gemstones and other minerals would enhance exports and create employment. |
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Couldn't she see there were no gemstones on the bracelet that he had given her? |
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Customs officers can seize cash, and cash includes cash equivalents, including bearer bonds, gemstones, money orders, postal notes, precious metals, and travellers cheques. |
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Speaking in an interview in Lusaka yesterday, she said Zambian gemstones were fetching five dollars per carat, equivalent of five grammes, on the West African market. |
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He said the mining centre would enable miners to add value to their stones by preparing knocking, sorting and grading their gemstones before selling them. |
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And Mr Manza had said if there was to be full realisation of the Zambian potential in gemstones, similar support should be extended to the lapidary and jewelry industries. |
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The coats were embellished with large gemstones or sprinkled with paillettes. |
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The products include copper rods, sugar, electrical cables, tobacco, fresh flowers, cotton lint, cotton yarn, fresh vegetables, gemstones and gasoil. |
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The crown is lavishly decorated with twenty pearls and ninety-six gemstones including sapphires, rubies, balas rubies, emeralds and lynx sapphires. |
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Tripoli and rouge are used to polish precious metals, not gemstones. |
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Also begun was the extraction of rare minerals and gemstones along with their accompanying minerals in the Il'men Mountains as well as recovery of uvarovite at Sarany. |
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Investment related scams involve an unsolicited phone call offering investments in shares, fine wine, gemstones or other soon-to-be rare commodities. |
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Most natural corundum is of industrial quality, but transparent to translucent varieties with their adamantine to vitreous luster potentially yield gemstones. |
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The necklace in Plate IX, based on the hopvine, is set with thirty different colored gemstones, each mounted in a collet setting with two leaves and three conelike blossoms. |
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Cordierite is often referred to as dichorite because of its strong pleochroism, which produces gemstones that appear to change shades of color, depending on the viewing angle. |
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Not only were these eyesight correctors the brightest shade of pink ever discovered, but also scattered on their surface were delicately shaped diamonds and various gemstones. |
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Traders in Livingstone have been urged to start dealing in gemstones to sell the precious stones to the many tourists who visit the tourist capital. |
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They were shiny and deep, like actual polished amethyst gemstones. |
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To him, they looked like turquoise gemstones sparkling in the sunlight. |
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Gold, gemstones, jewellery and leather are all good buys here. |
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Other attractions include gemstones, temple jewellery and pendants. |
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Other sectors, such as glassware and gemstones, are not much different. |
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In Grecian times bracelets were popular with men and soldiers wore defensive bands of leather, often decorated with gold, silver and or gemstones, on their forearms. |
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Cabochon-cut gemstones were almost always used for the push-piece, most often moonstone or Mecca stone, and these were often surrounded by rose diamonds or half pearls. |
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Marco Polo returned to Venice in 1295 with his fortune converted into gemstones. |
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In the very early days of gemstone fashioning, a polisher or lapidary would cut and polish both diamonds and other gemstones. |
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The Cathedral contains a vast amount of jewelry made of gold, silver and gemstones. |
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They crushed gemstones and used them to decorate their faces, mainly on the lips and around the eyes. |
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The crown is encrusted with 22 gemstones, including garnets and amethysts, 20 precious stones and 68 Scottish freshwater pearls. |
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The gemstones are closely related to the contact between mafic schists and felsic gneisses and pegmatites. |
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The way in which this passage compares with The Sphinx sheds light on the latter's glyphic stiffness, a property of gemstones. |
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There is also a separate classification of amber gemstones, according to the way of production. |
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For such a venture, the Polo family probably invested profits from trading, and even many gemstones they brought from the East. |
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The study was designed to better assess and understand consumers' knowledge and purchasing behavior of colored gemstones. |
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But you must agree that things have got far worse since we signed up to the single Troy weight agreement for gold, silver and gemstones. |
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Sand deposits in some areas contain garnets and other resistant minerals, including some small gemstones. |
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They developed a polychrome style of gold work, using wrought cells or setting to encrust gemstones into their gold objects. |
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Consider the pearl torsade mixed with colorful gemstones a summertime staple. |
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It includes rings, necklaces, earrings, bracelets and cuffing made of gemstones, meteorites, tektite and fossils, among others. |
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Mazanares specializes in gemstones, crystals, lampwork beads, dichroic glass and pearls with sterling silver, brass and copper. |
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During the 17th century the first deposits of iron and copper ores, mica, gemstones and other minerals were discovered in the Ural. |
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Normally, in the grading of colored gemstones, color is by far the most important criterion. |
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James Avery Jewelry offers a diverse selection of earrings, bracelets, necklaces, and rings in sterling silver, 14K gold, and gemstones for women and men of all ages. |
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Perhaps it refers to glass imitations of jewellery gemstones. |
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Hundreds of buyers visited the stalls set up in two days Gem Bazar and shown their keen interest in precious and semi precious gemstones and mineral specimen. |
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Rare precious gemstones of this nature are usually found in the private gem collections of jewellers, gemstone dealers and international gemstone connoisseurs. |
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A rising star in the field of healing gemstones is Rutilated Quartz, an extremely electromagnetic form of clear Quartz containing needle-like inclusions of Rutile. |
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International Gemmological Institute is an international body that endorses and certifies the quality of diamonds and gemstones used in jewellery around the world. |
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PandaHall is an online wholesaler and retailer of beads and findings, which include silver, pearls, jade, crystal items, gemstones, and lampwork glass. |
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Some of the noteworthy gemstones featured in rings this spring are opaque, sultry gems like moonstone, hematite, rutilated quartz, lapis lazuli and labradorite. |
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While all oysters may produce a dingy pearl, the pearl oyster that is famous for making the round gemstones isn't, biologically speaking, an oyster. |
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Rare precious gemstones of this extraordinary quality are usually available exclusively in gem collections of museums, private dealers and international gemstone connoisseurs. |
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The topic concentrates on the most valuable gemstones, and he criticises the obsession with luxury products such as engraved gems and hardstone carvings. |
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