Gemstones are popular accents in costume and fine jewelry. People believe in their ability to heal and inspire. Here are the ...

And those things maybe are just as important almost as the cutting edge ... Having quarried rough slabs of jade, the stone-workers and miners would then have had to labour to get the material ...

The mineral is often confused with jade. Translucent and transparent Grandidierite stones are considered gem quality, although only one in 1,000 qualify. The stone is difficult to cut and is often ...

"The golden rule is to water your jade plant once every two to three weeks, allowing the soil to dry out completely between waterings." While this timeline is not necessarily set in stone ... "First, ...

An even closer look reveals that parts of the hills are made of cut stone, and some have tunnels ... Royal visages made of green jade, more valuable than gold to the ancient Maya, evoked the ...

Si Thu Phyo was scavenging for leftover gemstones when he felt the earth shake loose around him. The 21-year-old was hard at work in one of the world's largest jade mines, in Kachin State in ...

One of the hottest trends in the luxury watch space right now is the use of exotic stone dials, but now an affordable ...

Asprey chair John Rigas’s introduction to jade was during a trip to Yangon in Myanmar in 2014, during which he became enchanted by the so-called Stone of ... the four Cs (cut, clarity, carat ...

Neolithic tribes raised mysterious stone pillars at holy sites above it ... and exploring the Omo-Turkana watershed. “If you cut that cord, the lake will die.” Avery lives in Kenya and ...

Assistant professor Jade Benjamin-Chung and a team of researchers created a sustainable, low-carbon alternative to concrete ...

Puuc blends ornate stone mosaics and cornices with vaulted ... façade frieze consisting of no fewer than 20,000 individually cut stones. The explorer Jacques Soustelle called Bonampak "a ...

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