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Victor Tuzlulov illustrates the fascinating world of speciality cuts in gemstones.
GIT 2016 –
Under the Full
Moon of
GEMUnity
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Gem Talk
The world was treated to a special super moon on November 14, the
closest full moon to Earth since 1948. This luminous moon, appearing
14% larger and 30% brighter than normal, inspired the theme of the
fifth biennial GIT conference, held on November 14 and 15 in the Thai
beach resort town of Pattaya, on Thailand’s eastern gulf coast. CYNTHIA
UNNINAYAR reports on the proceedings.
voking the importance of the Full Moon and the Unity this, where international experts meet and discuss a wide range
of the global gems and jewellery industry, the Gem and of topics, are vitally important to the advancement of the sector.
Jewelry Institute of Thailand (GIT) 2016 conference From the identification of treatments and origin of gemstones
kicked off before an enthusiastic crowd of some 500 to the determination of synthetics, both for coloured stones and
participants and guests. The morning began with a diamonds, research is vital for consumers and consumer trust.
welcome message by Siripol Yodmuangcharoen, chairman of Also presented at GIT 2016, to round out the sector, were
the executive board of the GIT, who talked about the institute’s discussions by jewellery designers from around the world, as well
support of the Thai gem and jewellery industry, which is the third as technological advances used in gem faceting and jewellery
largest in terms of exports from the Southeast Asian nation. manufacture.
His talk was followed by Dr. Pornsawat Wathanakul,
director of GIT. She discussed the importance of such global Keynote addresses
meetings, whose goal is to improve regional and international Speaking about the world of custom and exotic gem cuts, Russian
understanding and cooperation among scientists and major expert gem cutter, Victor Tuzlulov, kicked off the morning’s
stakeholders, as well as to explore new methods and procedures keynote talks with his presentation entitled The Fourth “C”:
in the gemmological field. She also briefly discussed the pre- Today and Tomorrow.
conference excursion to Mogok as well as the post-conference
excursions to Chanthaburi, the world’s capital of coloured stones
and Trat, home of the celebrated Siamese ruby.
The importance of scientific research
Research of the kind presented at the GIT 2016 conference forms
the bedrock of the gem and jewellery industry. Meetings such as
Jayshree Panjikar of Panjikar Gem Research & Tech Institute, Pune,
India (left) presents Meenu Brijesh Vyas of Gem Testing Laboratory,
Jaipur, India, the award for the winning poster, which described
Green Spinel from Afghanistan. The winning poster.
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Giuliani, director of research at the Institute of Research for
Development (IRD) in France.
Rounding out the keynote addresses, Rupak Sen, sales &
marketing director for Asia and the Middle East, Gemfields PLC,
spoke about Coloured Gemstones - A Journey through Past,
Present and Future.
Research and topics
In addition to oral presentations that were divided into two
parallel sessions, posters from around the world displayed a
wide variety of subjects. The many informative and interesting
topics—both oral presentations and posters—were grouped
into several categories and were presented by an impressive list
of international experts from Europe, the Americas, Asia, Africa,
the Pacific region and Greenland.
Editor and trends expert, Cynthia Unninayar,
presents The Dozen Dominant Design Directions
for Fine Jewelry in 2017.
Next, US-based Jewelry Showcase editor and
trends specialist, Cynthia Unninayar, discussed
The Dozen Dominant Design Directions for
Fine Jewelry in 2017. Her presentation featured
the major design categories of fine jewellery for
2017 and their evolution.
An informative discussion of Gem
Corundum Deposits with Regard to their (From left) Pornsawat Wathanakul, Henry Ho and Didier Girard announce a global Ruby
Geological Origin was presented by Gaston Symposium to take place in the fall of 2017.
The many poster presentations attract much interest from attendees.
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Li Geng, School of Gems, China University of Myungji Ye, jewellery designer, Yemyungji brand, Seoul, Korea, talks about her designs
Geosciences, Beijing, discusses the Cultivation and inspired by Dynamic Art, Dynamic Nature (Mineral – From the Birth of the Universe to
Market of Chinese Freshwater Cultured Pearls. the Origin of Life).
Innovation, identification and characterisation
Although there was some overlap of categories, the largest, with
32 presentations, encompassed Innovation, Identification and
Characterisation in the gem world. Some of the presentation
topics included the Origin Determination of Demantoid
Garnet, Geographic Origin Determination of Blue Sapphire,
Micro-Radiographic Structures of Natural Non-Nacreous Pearls
Reportedly from Tridacna (clam) Species, and the Misty Two-
Phase and Multi-Phase Inclusions in Aquamarine from Shigar
Valley, Pakistan.
In terms of treatments and synthetics, topics covered included
Blue Lead-Glass Filled Sapphires and Strontium Aluminate as an
Imitation for Phosphorizing Apatite.
Among the diamond-focused presentations were
Characterization of Color in Natural Color Diamonds, and Hybrid (From left) Pornsawat Wathanakul congratulates Barbara Wheat and
Diamonds: Natural Diamonds Overgrown with CVD Synthetic. Ioannis Alexandris on their winning bid (for charity) of a decorated
krathong to be set afloat for the Loy Krathong festival during the GIT
2016 gala dinner on November 14, under the Full Moon.
GIT’s master colour list
Aside from the questions of authenticity and treatment, the bringing a semblance of standardisation to the popular names,
most important decision a consumer makes depends largely on thus enhancing consumer confidence in the gem and jewellery
a gemstone’s colour. When it comes to rubies and sapphires, the market. (www.git.or.th)
three most popular colour trade names are Pigeon’s Blood Red,
Royal Blue and Cornflower Blue. Today, these terms are widely— International Ruby Symposium
and loosely—used by many gem labs, but there is no international Near the close of GIT 2016, a joint announcement by Pornsawat
harmonisation when it comes to the exact colour or range, whether Wathanakul, Didier Girard, and Henry Ho (chairman of the Asian
the stone is heated or unheated. As a result, confusion arises. Institute of Gemological Sciences) proclaimed the creation of an
To solve this problem, the GIT began conducting extensive International Ruby Symposium to take place in the fall of 2017,
research on colour communication in 1999 with the objective of with a mini-symposium being held at the Bangkok Gems &
establishing an industry standard for these colour terms. Following Jewelry Fair in February 2017.
this 15-year study, the GIT has created three standardised master For more information on the speakers at GIT 2016, and their
sets of ruby and blue sapphire to describe the famous colours. The extended abstracts, see the proceedings at git.or.th/git2016/download/
sets are available to any lab that wants to use them, in the hope of GIT2016.pdf. n
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