I am grateful to this excellent work coming from Tiffany Scholar Sally Dickinson DeLeon and Saleem H. Ali, Ph.D along with several research collaborators at the University of Vermont. The site provides information for educators, researchers, governments, miners and companies. Also on the site are case studies done on the gemstone sector in various countries.

With the Tucson Gem and Mineral Show just around the corner many dealers will be looking to purchase rubies. In this, my third post on this subject, I discuss the implications and the politics of Jewelers of America’s boycott of Burmese rubies

In this, the second of three posts on the subject of Burmese rubies, I publish a letter to the New York Times on The Burma Ruby Trade by Edward Boehm, Vice President of the International Colored Gemstone Association (ICA), http://www.gemstone.org/ Boehm explains why a blanket boycott of Burmese rubies is the wrong move. Special thanks