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3 Publisher: Linking the industry Diamonds & Gemstone Issue Articles by Jeremy Rothon (+27) 10 030 0888 CONTENTS www.jewellersnetwork .co.za 21,23,28,29 [email protected] 5 25 PO Box 525, Fourways North, 2086 Member of Audited by Jewellers’ Network Publications Jewellers’ Network GEMMOLOGY (Also available online) DID IT AGAIN! TR AINING by Gem Training International The Jewellers’ Network Directory Diary 13 Southern Africa’s biggest, most comprehensive 31 business category directory in the Jewellery, Watch and Diamond industry. It is an invaluable FANCY COLOURED JEWELRY tool for both national and international professionals within the sector. DIAMONDS ECOMMERCE by Kaylan Khourie, FGA by Richline LINKED by Jewellers’ Network Jewellers’ Network publishes a quarterly print No editorial matter or information published in LINKED by Jewellers’ Network may be reproduced in any form without the prior consent magazine, LINKED, which is brimming with of the publisher. The publisher accepts no responsibility, liability or obligation of any statement, photograph or illustration appearing in the information, product launches and in-depth advertisements. Every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of information published in this publication, however, the publisher cannot articles about the sector. accept responsibility for any omissions or errors, or for any consequences arising there from. LINKED Online Sent out digitally on a monthly basis and available on our website, LINKED Online is a content-rich digital magazine offering businesses yet another way to reach audiences locally and internationally more regularly. Design and layout by Yuppiestudios DIAMONDS AND GEMSTONES EDITION

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13 FE ATURED ARTICLE Featured article Below, top to bottom: 1. HPHT laboratory-grown rough (as-grown) Diamond 2. HPHT-treated Natural Diamond 3. Natural orangy Yellow Diamond. 1 2 FANCY 3 COLOURED DIAMONDS Pictured below are the three main nitrogen by Kaylan Khourie, FGA defects that can be present in diamond: 1. Isolated nitrogen (known as C-centres), 2. Nitrogen pairs (known as A-centres), 3. Four nitrogen atoms surrounding a vacancy (known as B-centers). The large majority of diamonds possess all three nitrogen defects in abundance. Coloured diamonds are rare The presence of specific impurities, C C gems found in every colour defects and deformation features will C C imaginable. result in the diamond absorbing light at specific wavelengths. This will leave the C C Each colour has a different cause residual wavelengths of light to transmit and can be created naturally during through the stone and that is the colour C CN CC growth underground or via laboratory that we see. C treatments. Laboratory-grown diamonds C Centre C C can also be grown as specific colours YELLOW - or treated post-growth to create the C C desired colour. Nitrogen is the most common cause C of colour in diamond and yellow is the Colour in diamond is caused by the most common colour - and is due largely C C selective absorption of light that is to nitrogen impurities in the diamond’s C C affected by things such as impurities, crystal lattice structure. crystallographic defects and/or C N deformations - which can form naturally or can be created in a laboratory. C CN CC C A Centre C C C C C C C C C N N CC CC B Centre N N C C C C DIAMONDS AND GEMSTONES EDITION

14 BROWN - GREEN - ORANGE - Brown is the second most common Green diamonds owe their colour to The colour in Orange diamonds is not colour. The typical causes are due nitrogen, irradiation, nickel impurities fully understood but many owe their to nitrogen, vacancy clusters, plastic and/or green luminescence created by colour to isolated nitrogen and plastic deformation, platelets and defects called other defects related to nitrogen and deformation. ‘amber centres’; however the cause of vacancies (namely H2, H3 and H4 - brown colour in diamond is not yet fully pictured below). Below: understood. 1. HPHT laboratory-grown (as-grown) Below: Below: 1. HPHT-treated Natural Diamond, Diamond, Brown graining caused by plastic deformation 2. HPHT laboratory-grown Diamond 2. Treated (coated) Natural Diamond, subjected to post-growth irradiation, 3. Natural Orange Diamond 3. Natural Green Diamond Photo credit: Taryn Willows (courtesy of Rez Diamonds). 1 1 BLUE - 2 2 3 3 Blue diamonds owe their colour to either boron impurities in the diamond’s crystal lattice or irradiation. Below: 1. Artificially irradiated Blue Diamond coloured by GR1 centres, 2. Natural Blue Diamond coloured by Boron impurities (courtesy of Rez Diamonds). 1 Defects responsible for green luminescence 2 C C WHITE- C C White diamonds, which are not the same C N as colourless diamonds, are milky and owe their ‘colour’ to the reflection of an C C e- CC abundance of submicroscopic cavities C filled with nitrogen precipitate. H2 Centre N C C C C The GR1 centre forms when carbon atoms are C C displaced by irradiation leaving a vacancy C C C N CC CC H3 Centre N C C C C C CC C N CC C N C C CC C CC CC CC N C H4 Centre N C GR1 Centre C C C C C C C C © LINKED BY JEWELLERS’ NETWORK

15 FE ATURED ARTICLE PURPLE, VIOLET PINK AND RED - BLACK - AND GREY - Pink and Red diamonds owe their colour Black diamonds are actually just Purple, Violet and Grey diamonds to plastic deformation and nitrogen- diamonds full of dark inclusions (such owe their colour to an abundance of vacancy defects (pictured below). as iron, magnetite, sulfides and most hydrogen impurities. commonly - graphite) or are just very Below: dark green, blue or brown. Below: 1. Natural Pink Diamond 1. Perfect hydrogen cloud creating a Below: Grey colour (courtesy of Rez Diamonds). 1. Natural – coloured by an abundance of 2. Violet and Purple Diamonds natural radiation stains. Reflected light and 2. HPHT laboratory-grown Red Diamond under magnification. Courtesy of Naturally Colored subjected to a multistep post-growth 2. Treated - induced graphitisation process treatment exhibiting a typical cross-shaped (a type of heat treatment). Reflected light 1 fluorescence under short-wave UV light, and under magnification. 3. Multistep Treated Natural Red Diamond. 1 1 22 3 2 Defects responsible for Pink/Red colour CC CC C C CN CC C NV Centre C C C C C C C C C C e- C CN CC C NV- Centre C C C C C The author of this article, Kaylan Khourie, is a FGA qualified gemmologist and laboratory gemmologist at EGL South Africa. All rights reserved. This article is the sole property of Kaylan Khourie and may not be reproduced by any form or means without the express written consent by Kaylan Khourie. Unless otherwise stated, all images have been captured by and belong to the author. All defect diagrams are courtesy of Trevor Willows. DIAMONDS AND GEMSTONES EDITION

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21 FE ATURED ARTICLE GEM ALERT Please DON’T EVER buy a It is very easy to get two different Clarity grades are usually within a grade, diamond set in jewellery without opinions in a laboratory environment but imperfections can be hidden or partly a report from a reputable lab using a master set with a loose diamond. hidden under the claws or tube setting. that has graded the stone out of the setting. As a rule, when I was buying second- At the bottom of all our hand diamonds, I would give the client a valuations, we state: Jewellery valuers grade the stone in the price as seen in the setting, but it setting and call the grade as it is seen was always subject to seeing it out of Gemstones were examined in in that setting. However, as I am sure the setting. the setting and would have to you are aware, the colour of the metal be removed for an accurate can affect the colour of the stone quite I sometimes paid them more depending assessment. considerably. on the actual weight, colour, clarity, and cut. Giving them an idea of what they Make sure, if you are doing valuations Colour is the most difficult characteristic could get would give them an indication that you have a disclaimer of some sort to to grade in a setting, and that is why is of whether they would like to sell it to protect you and your customers. it acceptable to be at least two colour you or not before removing it from grades out when graded in a piece of the setting. JEREMY ROTHON jewellery. Two colour grades can make a Accredited Senior Gemologist huge difference to the price though, and The weight formulas that we use to the amount you are willing to pay. estimate the weight of round brilliant cut diamonds are pretty accurate. Fancy cuts aren’t always as accurate. DIAMONDS AND GEMSTONES EDITION

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28 FE ATURED ARTICLE SO NOW Author Roy T. Bennett has Chat with your creditors, encourage WHAT? this to say: transparency and communication, and make a plan. Offer your clients the very 2020 is, thankfully, behind us. Your hardest times often lead best service that will make them feel like The holiday season is over, and to the greatest moments of a VIP as soon as they enter your store. As we’ve taken the decorations your life. Keep going. Tough soon as your doors open, maximise every down. Our collective New Year’s situations build strong people single opportunity to create a magical hangovers have abated. in the end. space to encourage them to talk, ask questions, browse, and buy. So many people are looking at the ravages You can give up, or you can of this tremendously difficult time and get up. Do those courses that will give you the wondering where to go from here. TERS knowledge and insight you need to close has stopped, debt holidays are over, and Now is the time to take action and focus as many sales as possible and display your debit orders are bouncing all over the clearly on what we do best. Take practical in-depth knowledge to your valuable place. Established businesses have closed steps to fix what’s broken and grow customers. their doors after years of pouring blood, yourself, your business, and your team. sweat, and tears into their endeavour. Write down all your natural talents and We’re here to help in any way we can. consider how you can use them to their Together, we’ll get through this. Many of us are battling to stay afloat and full potential. Do the same with your wonder if we’ll be among those who have team – brainstorm ideas on how to build JEREMY ROTHON to call it a day as well. a better business. Accredited Senior Gemologist YOUR INSURANCE IS OUR BUSINESS ASSOCIATED INSURANCE BROKERS (AIB) Contact: Shaun Summers Address: 33 Scott Street, Waverley, Johannesburg, 2090 E-mail: [email protected] / [email protected] Phone: +27 (0)11 883-2400 | Fax: +27 (0)11 783-3664 Website www.aib.za.com AIB is the trading name of i capital Risk Services (Pty) Ltd Reg. No 2004/022911/07 AIB is a registered Financial Services Provider FSP 19819 © LINKED BY JEWELLERS’ NETWORK

29 FE ATURED ARTICLE IN THE LAB - BURNT SYN MOISSANITE We see too many burnt and It was only after the forth time under the JEREMY ROTHON damaged gemstones in the lab torch that it showed surface damage. You Accredited Senior Gemologist due to negligence. can judge the temperature for yourself. After the burn we boiled the stone in We had three tanzanites come in, in sulphuric acid to clean it. one month that had been damaged by ultra sound cleaning. Tanzanite should NEVER be put in an ultra sound. The one client said he had been putting tanzanite jewellery in an ultra sound for years and nothing happened. A very expensive lesson learnt on this occasion. We wanted to know how much heat a Top: These picture are of the synthetic moissanite surface after it was burnt. synthetic moissanite could take before The effect is very similar to a burnt diamond. the surface showed any damage. It turned yellow and looked cloudy and then went back to its original white colour. ai16165466047_184.6mmx129.45mmv2.pdf 1 24/03/2021 08:43:25 ONE-STOP INTERNATIONAL JEWELLERY C MARKETPLACE M Y CM MY CY CMY K hkdgp.hktdc.com/ex/103 hkjewelleryshow.hktdc.com/ex/103 25-29 July 2021 • Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre DIAMONDS AND GEMSTONES EDITION

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