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    This document discusses how the internal features of gemstones, known as inclusions, can provide clues about their geological origins and histories. Specific inclusions can indicate the mineral locality where a gemstone formed. Understanding inclusions also helps identify enhancements and distinguish natural gems from synthetic ones. The document explores various inclusion types found in different gemstones like quartz, peridot, sapphire, fire opal, demantoid garnet, and provides photos examples. It notes inclusions can offer evidence of heat treatment or reveal clues about a gemstone's formation environment and journey from the mine.

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    This document discusses how the internal features of gemstones, known as inclusions, can provide clues about their geological origins and histories. Specific inclusions can indicate the mineral locality where a gemstone formed. Understanding inclusions also helps identify enhancements and distinguish natural gems from synthetic ones. The document explores various inclusion types found in different gemstones like quartz, peridot, sapphire, fire opal, demantoid garnet, and provides photos examples. It notes inclusions can offer evidence of heat treatment or reveal clues about a gemstone's formation environment and journey from the mine.

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    This document discusses how the internal features of gemstones, known as inclusions, can provide clues about their geological origins and histories. Specific inclusions can indicate the mineral locality where a gemstone formed. Understanding inclusions also helps identify enhancements and distinguish natural gems from synthetic ones. The document explores various inclusion types found in different gemstones like quartz, peridot, sapphire, fire opal, demantoid garnet, and provides photos examples. It notes inclusions can offer evidence of heat treatment or reveal clues about a gemstone's formation environment and journey from the mine.

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    This document discusses how the internal features of gemstones, known as inclusions, can provide clues about their geological origins and histories. Specific inclusions can indicate the mineral locality where a gemstone formed. Understanding inclusions also helps identify enhancements and distinguish natural gems from synthetic ones. The document explores various inclusion types found in different gemstones like quartz, peridot, sapphire, fire opal, demantoid garnet, and provides photos examples. It notes inclusions can offer evidence of heat treatment or reveal clues about a gemstone's formation environment and journey from the mine.

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    The Internal World Of Gemstones ( Inclusions )

    We can use the internal characteristics of gemstones to extrapolate the conditions in which they were formed, including temperature and pressure, and how that relates to the geological and geographical region they may have been associated with. The original locality of a particular gemstone can be traced back to the source by diagnostic features like a specific solid crystal inclusion or the presence of a 3-phase inclusion, just to name a couple. The internal world of gemstones reveals mineralogical clues to trace a gems origin and what has happened to it on its way from the mine to the jeweler. Enhancements and treatments are even more of a factor today since the average gem collector has the infinite resources of the Internet to research and explore the secrets of the gem trade. Understanding internal characteristics can help identify the presence of heat treatment and distinguish a natural from a synthetic.

    Quartz A Two-Phase Inclusion

    Peridot Lily Pad Inclusion


    Discoid cleavage in the classic lily pad shape. These formations usually have a tiny negative crystal near the center. This particular peridot is from Arizona

    Quartz Tourmaline Needle


    Single black tourmaline needle in quartz. Precision cutting positioned the needle at the culet and extending perpendicular to the table so the tourmaline is reflected in a kaleidoscope-like effect.

    Sapphire
    Inclusion
    Another view of a negative crystal that seems to have grown in a corkscrew-like pattern in a sapphire

    Fire Opal
    Inclusions
    An unusual tube growth formation with larger terminating crystals in this Mexican fire opal

    Demantoid Garnet
    Horsetail Inclusion

    The aurora-like inclusions above are actually interwoven bands of horsetails

    An inclusion mimics a firework spray

    Unidentified crystal at the center of the horsetail nebula

    Classic radiating horsetail inclusion with distinct core

    Unidentified halo inclusions of varying sizes along chrysotile needles. Halos similar to these are found in varying sizes within many demantoids

    Kashmir Sapphire
    Silk Inclusions
    Silk. Needly, cloudlike inclusions, known as silk, are visible under magnification, proof of the absence of heat treatment

    Quartz
    Euhedral quartz crystals in a Japan-law twin-like formation, suggest syngenetic formation with the beryl host. Also notice the two-phase inclusions

    Confetti of single-crystal inclusions, most likely quartz and feldspar, with some small two-phase inclusions. This material also produced some bubbles trapped within negative crystals

    Andradite Garnet
    Inclusions in garnet. Iridescent pattern seen in an andradite garnet from Hermosillo, Mexico. The pattern results from a superficial chemical disintegration of the outermost layers of the crystal

    Ruby
    Flashy: Blue and orange flash effect seen along structural fractures, a key identifying feature of glass-filled rubies.

    Tourmaline
    Needlework. A 3.22-carat Mozambique paraiba tourmaline

    Big rosy red in bloom

    This Books is still Under Construction All Rights Reserved Made By FawZan just for Reference materials for Gem Inclusions and their names Date of Composition of this book 19th October 2011 Thanks for Viewing Enjoy

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