TUCSON (KGUN9-TV) - The Tucson Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Showcase is off and running for its 62nd year, many of the 45 shows opening Saturday. "This is the premier location for the display and sale of ...

Zunair Shafiq has been writing and gaming since he was a kid and now spends most of his time combining the two. He wants to play every game, good or bad, but has a soft corner for Simulation and ...

TUCSON - Visitors to the JCK Gem Show were treated to a live gem cutting demonstration on Thursday. Gem cutter, Roger Dery, showed onlookers what it looks like to cut gemstones. It was a behind the ...

LITTLE ROCK -- Visitors find small diamonds at the Crater of Diamonds State Park in Murfreesboro fairly often. More than 200 have already been claimed this year, more than 30,000 have been discovered ...

Trichy, once regarded as the capital of artificial gem cutting, an industry which manually made diamond lookalike stones, had lost its market to the aggressive pricing and machinery expertise of China ...

Rubies, emeralds and tourmalines can only sparkle with the right cut. Since early this year, a fully automatic machine has undertaken this grinding process one gem cutter. It saves up to 30 percent of ...

Background: Guastadisegni, 42, was 14 years old when his family moved from Italy to Chicago. He studied mechanical engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and studied ...

Local gem store owner Tobin Rupert realized he had a valuable stone when his associate Tyler Jourdonnais dropped off a ruby to be cut. "I thought it was going to be at least 30 grand," he said. As he ...

Note to editors: Images of the Lion of Merelani are available here. The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History will unveil the Lion of Merelani, one of the most exquisite colored gemstones ...

LITTLE ROCK -- Visitors find small diamonds at the Crater of Diamonds State Park in Murfreesboro fairly often. More than 200 have already been claimed this year, more than 30,000 have been discovered ...

Trichy, once regarded as the capital of artificial gem cutting, an industry which manually made diamond lookalike stones, had lost its market to the aggressive pricing and machinery expertise of China ...