A gem dealer's journal

A Gem Dealer’s Journal: Gem designing in Australia with Laura Phillis

March 06, 2020 • A gem dealer's journal • Asia Lounges • Australia • blog • color • creations • gem • Gem Cutting • gems • gemstome • Gemstone • gold • hand made jewellery • interview • jewellery • jewelry • Lapidary • Laura Phillis • Natural Gems • origin • Photography • rough • sapphire • Simon Dussart • Tatum Gems • the making of a gem • Tucson

Hey Loungers,

As you may have noticed, we have had a fair few gem cutters coming through our columns recently. Today, we interview the newly appointed president of the South Australian division of the G.A.A. (Gemmological Association of Australia), Madame the President Laura Phillis!

Laura is a famed lapidary artist, whom is more widely known by her company name on Instagram: Tatum Gems, who’s made a name for herself for coming up with brand new gem designs as well as for being a gemmological teacher in her native Australia.

We had the opportunity of meeting her recently during the 2020 edition of the Tucson show where she agreed to answer to our questions.

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A Gem Dealer's Journal: First video interview with Marie Bellard, Laura Phillis and Justin K Prim during Tucson 2020

March 02, 2020 • A Gem dealers journal • Amaterra • Asia Lounges • blog • gem • Gem Cutting • gems • gemstome • Gemstone • interview • jewellery • jewelry • Justin K Prim • Lapidary • Laura Phillis • Magus Gems • Marie Bellard • Natural Gems • rough • Simon Dussart • Tatum Gems

Hey Loungers, In this interview, done during Tucson 2020, we will be having a three way discussion about western style gem cutting, the differences between hobby cutters and professional ones as well as to discussing about the main differences that one may encounter as they are looking at competition cutters VS commercial cutters. In this interview you will find Laura Phillis from Tatum Gems Australia, Marie Alice Bellard from Amaterra Gems USA and lastly, our pal Justin K Prim from Magus Gems Bangkok and your favourite question slinger of course: Myself! Hope you'll like it and see you soon in...

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A Gem Dealer’s Journal: The path to gem cutting with Victoria Raynaud:

January 22, 2020 • A Gem dealers journal • Asia Lounges • blog • color • DANAT • garnet • gem • Gem Cutting • gemological laboratory • gems • gemstome • Gemstone • GIA • interview • jewelry • Justin K Prim • Lapidary • Natural Gems • origin • Photography • photomicrography • rough • Simon Dussart • the making of a gem • treatment • Victoria Raynaud • Vincent Pardieu

Hey Loungers, This week we welcome as our guest Ms. Victoria Raynaud, the young French gemologist who has quite the track record albeit her age and is one of the last people to have learned the traditional Swiss cutting technique! She has worked diligently under our pal Vincent Pardieu both at GIA Bangkok and at DANAT Bahrain and is now setting her own activity as a gem cutting expert in Bangkok, Thailand! But whom better than herself could tell us more about herself? Victoria the floor is yours! Victoria learning to cut on a traditional Burmese faceting handpiece during...

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A Gem Dealer’s Journal: Outta the Blue: Robert Gessner’s interview

January 05, 2020 • A gem dealer's journal • Asia Lounges • blog • burma • color • color type • creations • garnet • gem • Gemfields • gems • gemstome • Gemstone • Gessner Gems • interview • jewellery • jewelry • Kagem • Mozambique • Natural Gems • origin • Robert Gessner • rough • ruby • sapphire • Simon Dussart • South Africa • Spinel • tanzania • Tanzanite One

"More interesting to the readers will be the mining licenses: once a private or public organisation is looking into a new or existing mining license, exploration would have delineated the potential resource (note: I do not say reserve – because reserve means the gems are guaranteed, which is not the case in the coloured gemstone mining industry). The mining department works with the geology department to calculate the desired scale of operations and decide on the best mining method to access and extract the gemstone ore (resource). The size of the resource, coupled to the chosen mining method generates a life-of-mine. Obviously, I am summarising a very complex process." - Says Gessner in his interview with AsiaLounges' A Gem Dealer's Journal

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A Gem Dealer’s Journal: Interviewing Nature’s Alchemist: Paula Crevoshay

December 15, 2019 • A gem dealer's journal • Asia Lounges • blog • color • creations • Crevoshay • gem • gems • gemstome • Gemstone • gold • hand made jewellery • interview • jewellery • jewelry • Natural Gems • Nature's Alchemist • one of a kind • Paula Crevoshay • Simon Dussart • treatment

Hey Loungers, Today we receive a very special guest in our columns, today, we are graced with Nature’s most famous alchemist: the talented Paula Crevoshay! Paula has been dedicated the greatest part of the last three decades mesmerising the jewellery world with her unique creations and her seemingly endless energy. Inspired by nature, often copied but never equalled, Paula is without a doubt one of the most iconic high jewellery designer in the United States if not in the world. It is always a pleasure to meet her or to review her various public appearance in conferences. Be it at...

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