Archive for November, 2009

The Panama Diamond Exchange could turn the country into the Dubai

The World Federation of Diamond Bourses (WFDB, for its acronym in English) presented today in Panama the first bag that will work in Latin America for trade in precious stones, which, according to that organization, a business could generate between five and 10 billion dollars a year and turn the country into the next Dubai.
The [...]

November 25, 2009  Tags: , , ,  Posted in: Educations   No Comments

The diamonds are in heaven and can explain life on Earth

The diamonds are abundant in the cosmic vacuum and its analysis could help unravel the mysteries about the origin of life on Earth, said NASA scientists today, adding that they use to study the Spitzer Space Telescope.
Scientists at the Ames Research Center NASA employ ultrasensitive and infrared eyes of Spitzer to delve further [...]

November 25, 2009  Tags: , , , ,  Posted in: Educations   No Comments

Panama will open the first diamond bourse in Latin America in 2010

Panama open the first diamond bourse in Latin America in 2010 with the purpose of distributing these gemstones in the markets of the region, informed the Minister of Commerce and Industry of Panama, Roberto Henriquez.
“The big international diamond business, with shares of Italy, Israel, USA and Belgium, decided that Panama was the ideal location for [...]

November 25, 2009  Tags: , , ,  Posted in: Educations   No Comments

Apartir diamonds create three Mexican tequila

Javier Morales, a graduate student at the University of Nuevo Leon and Victor Castaoo and scientists Apotiga Luis Miguel, both of UNAM, were awarded the Ig Nobel prize in chemistry for his research on creating diamonds from tequila.
The Mexicans were thin films of diamond based on a formulation of tequila. The technique [...]

November 25, 2009    Posted in: Educations   No Comments

The precious stone tanzanite, rarer than diamonds

HTML clipboardTanzanite, a precious stone that was formed d 5 million years, but was not discovered in 1967, a thousand times rarer than diamond, jewelry is used worldwide, and is coveted by jewelers sobretodote New York and London up points can not imagine.It’s located just at the foot of Mount Kilimanjaro on [...]

November 25, 2009  Tags: , , , , , ,  Posted in: Educations   No Comments

Presented in London the world’s most expensive bottle diamonds

A bottle valued at two million dollars (about 1, 4 million) and made with diamonds, gold and pearls, was presented today in London as the most expensive in the world.
The black raspberry liqueur Chambord, a native of France and with global prestige has been poured into a bottle created by jeweler Donald Edge, adding that [...]

November 25, 2009  Tags:   Posted in: Uncategorized   No Comments

TROY OUNCE

A weight unit for precious metals predominately used in England and the U.S.В  Twenty pennyweights (dwt) equals one troy ounce, and twelve troy ounces [...]

November 19, 2009  Tags: , ,  Posted in: Glossary   No Comments

ULTRASONIC CLEANER

A machine commonly used by jewelers to clean jewelry effectively.В  The ultrasonic vibrations free most types of dirt, grime, and oils from the items. Some [...]

November 19, 2009  Tags: , , ,  Posted in: Glossary   No Comments