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Now Showing: How LVMH Became A $500 Billion Powerhouse; Patek Philippe’s Cubitus ‘Scandal’ Explained; and a Remarkable Private Watch Collection
Now Showing: How LVMH Became A $500 Billion Powerhouse; Patek Philippe’s Cubitus ‘Scandal’ Explained; and a Remarkable Private Watch Collection Posted November 08, 2024 | Take a few moments to enjoy Jeweller's Friday Flicks video selection, including updates on current affairs and insights into the jewellery trade.
Gemmologists who changed the game: Campbell Bridges
Born in England, Bridges was introduced to geology from an early age through his father, Dr RJ Bridges, a chief geologist for The Central Mining and Investment Corporation in South Africa. His childhood in South Africa and his father's work exposed Bridges to various gemstones, which he collected. Bridges was educated at Hilton College before completing his Bachelor of Science in geology at the University of Witwatersrand.
Now Showing: Cutting a huge 700-carat gemstone; Two watchmakers show how to make a perfect watch; and creating diamond and gold handcuffs
Now Showing: Cutting a huge 700-carat gemstone; Two watchmakers show how to make a perfect watch; and creating diamond and gold handcuffs Posted October 11, 2024 | Take a few moments to enjoy Jeweller's Friday Flicks video selection including updates on current affairs and insights into the jewellery trade. This week, check out two watchmakers crafting a perfect watch, a lapidiarist cutting a 700-carat gemstone, and watch a jeweller adorn a gold handcuff in diamonds.
Now Showing: Inside Sri Lanka’s deadly underground mines; 100-carat rough opal fresh out of the mine gets cut; and $800,000 worth of gold in five days
Now Showing: Inside Sri Lanka’s deadly underground mines; 100-carat rough opal fresh out of the mine gets cut; and $800,000 worth of gold in five days Posted October 04, 2024 | Take a few moments to enjoy Jeweller's Friday Flicks video selection including updates on current affairs and insights into the jewellery trade. This week, let's let's check what's inside Sri Lanka’s deadly underground mines, 100-carat rough opal fresh out of the mine gets cut, and $800,000 worth of gold in five days.
Gemmologists who changed the game: Thomas Hodge-Smith
Born in 1894 in England, his family immigrated to Australia when he was two years old. His father, Reverend Michael Smith, was stationed at various locations across the country, before settling at Double Bay. Hodge-Smith completed his education at Scot's College, the Sydney Technical High School, the Sydney Technical College and the University of Sydney. After school, he passed an exam to work in the Public Service and was offered a cadetship in the Geological Survey of New South Wales.
Now Showing: Visiting the world’s largest gemstone and jewellery exhibition; inside Turkey’s illegal replica industry; and how to set up dual-band polishing lap with scoring
Now Showing: Visiting the world’s largest gemstone and jewellery exhibition; inside Turkey’s illegal replica industry; and how to set up dual-band polishing lap with scoring Posted September 27, 2024 | Take a few moments to enjoy Jeweller's Friday Flicks video selection including updates on current affairs and insights into the jewellery trade.
The charm about opal
The history of the Australian gold rush in the 1850s is well-known and appreciated. It all began in 1851 with the first gold discovery near Bathurst in NSW. This pivotal event set the stage for the Australian population to quadruple from 430,000 to 1.7 million by 1871. When they heard about the discovery of gold, people traversed the globe and took a considerable risk, travelling halfway around the world in search of their fortune. The largest non-European group of miners were Chinese.
Gemmologists who changed the game: Andrew Cody
Cody had an unrivalled passion for Australian opals and dedicated most of his life to promoting and celebrating this unique gemstone. His love for collecting gemstones and minerals started from an early age, and a school excursion to Coober Pedy accelerated his love for opals. In 1964, his interests turned to cutting opal, and he went on to complete studies in Valuations at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology.
Now Showing: Join the Mooka boys unearth concrete opal; 185-year old Victorian ring; and how rare gemstones are found 300-foot-deep mines?
Now Showing - 6 September 2024 Now Showing: Join the Mooka boys unearth concrete opal; 185-year old Victorian ring; and how rare gemstones are found 300-foot-deep mines? Posted September 06, 2024 | Take a few moments to enjoy Jeweller's Friday Flicks video selection including updates on current affairs and insights into the jewellery trade.
Gemmologists who changed the game: Bill Hicks
Hicks was a gemmologist who, after completing his studies with the Gemmological Association of Australia (GAA), dedicated over a decade of his life to the development of The Australian Gemmologist. His professional background in the publishing industry, as a part of the third-generation publishing firm Hicks Smith & Son, made him an incredible asset to the editorial team. He was officially appointed editor of the publication in August of 1981 by the Melbourne-based editorial committee.
Gemmologists who changed the game: Corinne Sutherland
Sutherland graduated from the University of Melbourne with a science degree. She then began working in research and development for food used to aid troops serving overseas in World War II. She moved to England for a few years before returning to Australia to raise her family and work alongside her husband, Dr Geoffrey Sutherland, at the Eye and Ear Hospital in Melbourne.
Gemmologists who changed the game: Grahame Brown
Completing the GAA Diploma of Gemmology in 1974, he passed the course with a high distinction and was awarded the Australia Prize for the highest marks in the country. The following year, he achieved another high distinction when completing his studies with the Gemmological Association of Great Britain. Brown became a lecturer at the Queensland Division of the GAA in 1975 and served as the Federal Chairman of the GAA from 1979 to 1981, becoming president of the GAA in 1983.
Gemmologists who changed the game: Sylvia Whincup
Born in 1921, Whincup was a pioneering female figure in earth sciences and gemmology in Australia. She graduated from Melbourne University in 1942 with a Bachelor of Science degree in geology and chemistry and completed her Master of Science in 1943. She was married to Charles Reginald Whincup, a Royal Australian Air Force flight officer who died while serving in the Second World War. Whincup gave birth to their son, Peter Reginald Whincup, in 1944, the same year she published her master’s thesis.
No. 11 Women's Ice Hockey Ties Curry, 2-2
CANTON, Mass. — The No. 11 nationally ranked Endicott women's ice hockey team tied Curry College by a score of 2-2 on Saturday afternoon at Canton Ice House in the final game of Commonwealth Coast Conference (CCC) regular season play. After trailing 2-0 in the third period, Endicott responded with two goals five minutes apart to send the game to overtine.
Morris' OT Game-Winner Lifts No. 11 Women's Ice Hockey Over UNE, 2-1
BEVERLY, Mass. — The No. 11 nationally ranked Endicott women's ice hockey team knocked off the University of New England in overtime, 2-1, in Friday night Commonwealth Coast Conference (CCC) action from Raymond J. Bourque Ice Arena. After a scoreless first period, the Nor'Easters netted the first goal of the night at the 6:03 mark of the second. At the 13:27 mark, Endicott's Teaghan Hall (West Springfield, Mass.) responded as she snuck one past the UNE goaltender to knot the score at one apiece.
No. 12 Women’s Ice Hockey Blanks Curry, 3-0
BEVERLY, Mass. – The No. 12 Endicott women's ice hockey team defeated Curry, 3-0, in conference action on Saturday evening at Raymond J. Bourque Arena. After a scoreless first period, Payton Hansen (Spring City, Pa.) put the Gulls on the scoreboard just 1:28 in the second frame when she fired a bouncing puck toward the net from the neutral zone that snuck in past Curry's netminder.
No. 14 Women’s Ice Hockey Bests Salve Regina, 5-1
BEVERLY, Mass. — The No. 14 Endicott women's ice hockey team defeated Salve Regina, 5-1, in conference action on Saturday evening at Raymond J. Bourque Arena. Teaghan Hall (West Springfield, Mass.), Lily Anderson (St. Paul, Minn.), Emmerson Hayes (Los Angeles, Calif.), Rivers Morris (Braintree, Mass.), and Quin Healy (Melrose, Mass.) all scored in the victory.
No. 14 Women’s Ice Hockey Takes Down Salve Regina, 4-0
MIDDLETOWN, R.I. — The Endicott No. 14 nationally ranked women's ice hockey team defeated Salve Regina, 4-0, in Commonwealth Coast Conference (CCC) action on Friday evening at Cabot-Harman Ice Center. Four different student-athletes lit the lamp in the victory including Samantha Fantasia (Billerica, Mass.), Teaghan Hall (West Springfield, Mass.), Quin Healy (Melrose, Mass.), and Mackenzie Graham (Billerica, Mass.).
No. 15 Women's Ice Hockey Ties Williams, 3-3
BEVERLY, Mass. – The No. 15 women's ice hockey team tied Williams, 3-3, in non-conference action on Sunday afternoon at Raymond J. Bourque Arena. Rivers Morris (Braintree, Mass.) got the scoring started just over a minute in the first period as she cashed in a rebound following a Teaghan Hall (West Springfield, Mass.) shot. The Gulls keep the 1-0 lead going into the second period as Lily Anderson (St. Paul, Minn.) found the back of the net to double Endicott's lead at 10:43.
Garnet: lights the way
Deep red is generally the colour that comes to mind when thinking of garnets, but the family actually encompasses gems of nearly every colour, bar blue. Some garnet varieties change colour in different lights and some exhibit stars. The blood-red coloured garnet is known as Pyrope garnet, whose colour is due to chromium. Its best examples come from Bohemia and South Africa, where they are found as accessory minerals in diamond mines.
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