FAQs Archives - Geo Gems Mineral Club https://geogemsmineralclub.com/tag/faqs/ Shop Minerals Specimens | Learn Minerals, Gems Sun, 18 May 2025 19:53:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 https://geogemsmineralclub.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/cropped-GGMC-LOGO-copy-32x32.jpg FAQs Archives - Geo Gems Mineral Club https://geogemsmineralclub.com/tag/faqs/ 32 32 152507873 Identification of Gems Minerals through Calcite Dichroscope https://geogemsmineralclub.com/2025/05/18/identification-of-gems-minerals-through-calcite-dichroscope/ https://geogemsmineralclub.com/2025/05/18/identification-of-gems-minerals-through-calcite-dichroscope/#respond Sun, 18 May 2025 19:53:41 +0000 https://geogemsmineralclub.com/?p=676 Observing Gems Mineral colours through Calcite Dichroscope. A dichroscope is a handheld tool for identifying or looking into the different colors or shades of a pleochroic piece of gems minerals. It helps any gemologist or gem cutter in judging gemstone before cutting or identifying gem.   Calcite Dichroscope Calcite Dichroscope is used to observe dichroic gems and trichroic […]

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]]> https://geogemsmineralclub.com/2025/05/18/identification-of-gems-minerals-through-calcite-dichroscope/feed/ 0 676 How to Photograph Gemstones and Minerals? https://geogemsmineralclub.com/2022/06/04/how-to-photograph-gemstones-and-minerals/ https://geogemsmineralclub.com/2022/06/04/how-to-photograph-gemstones-and-minerals/#respond Sat, 04 Jun 2022 19:16:54 +0000 https://geogemsmineralclub.com/?p=650 Photography of gems and mineral is an art. Especially polished gemstones have highly reflective surfaces that can reflect light back into the camera lens overexposing the facet and frequently burn into adjacent facets as well. Gemstones also have internal brilliance that acts in much the same way as the surface reflections.  They always need specific light and background to […]

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]]> https://geogemsmineralclub.com/2022/06/04/how-to-photograph-gemstones-and-minerals/feed/ 0 650 How Gems Minerals Get Their Specific Colours? https://geogemsmineralclub.com/2022/06/04/how-gems-minerals-get-their-specific-colours/ https://geogemsmineralclub.com/2022/06/04/how-gems-minerals-get-their-specific-colours/#respond Sat, 04 Jun 2022 18:13:59 +0000 https://geogemsmineralclub.com/?p=627 Gemstones give very beautiful colour variety which attracts to the eyes of buyers. If people like the particular gemstones, it is because of their colour. Specific colour is known as gem colour. So, how the gemstones get their specific colour and how they turn into that particular colour? Here are some points discussed under below:- […]

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]]> https://geogemsmineralclub.com/2022/06/04/how-gems-minerals-get-their-specific-colours/feed/ 0 627 What is Lust Called in Gemstones? https://geogemsmineralclub.com/2017/08/28/what-is-luster-called-in-gemstones/ https://geogemsmineralclub.com/2017/08/28/what-is-luster-called-in-gemstones/#respond Mon, 28 Aug 2017 19:24:13 +0000 https://geogemsmineralclub.com/?p=653 Luster is referred to the light reflected from the surface of gems. In some gemstones, there is internal light reflections also such as facet stones with transparency. However internal reflection of light is not called luster. It is called brilliance. Luster is the way a mineral either shines or does not shine. Gems and minerals can […]

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