Clear as Mud.(finding a way to hae fully disclsed precious stones or keep them untreated at its natural best)

Jewelers Circular Keystone,  May, 2007  

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By Ben Janowski

Everywhere we turn in politics and business we hear that marvelous word transparency. Everybody acclaims it, demands it, promises it, and sells it. Wonderful, I think, just wonderful. We are in a world where everyone and everything is aboveboard, and human rights and the environment are protected. And all precious stones are natural and untreated or else have fully disclosed treatments.

That should only be the case, and it should only be that simple. Consider the following excerpts from various reports by the Gemological Institute of America.

In one ...

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