Introduction: In much of the jewelry sector, gemstones are strictly commodity. Yet historically, people have viewed gemstones as having talismanic and healing power. This article on Aquamarine is one of a series on every birthstone, written by Marc Choyt, author of this blog.

Lead in jewelry was a big issue last year which was originally brought to the public by the Center for Environmental Heath (read our interview on this blog). This press release shows continued desire of leading interests in the jewelry sector to come to uniform standards. As an interesting side note,

This article coming out of a new website from Tiffany Scholar, Sally Dickinson DeLeon as part of a project run by Saleem H. Ali, Ph.D. out of the University of Vermont gives an in depth portrait of the mining sector in Burma. It lends evidence to earlier posts that suggest what needs to be boycotted