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Legendary Gems

Legendary Gems

ISBN: 9780719804014

Author: Eric Bruton

Publisher: NAG Press

Format: Paperback

Price: AUD $17.95
RRP: AUD $22.95

Gems still exert a powerful influence on the modern world, enlightened though it is said to be: once poverty stricken, Botswana has recently found sudden wealth under the desert sands, where diamonds have been hiding for a hundred million years.
In the Congo, Zaire, and Angola, civil war in our times has been inspired partly by mineral riches. And the rivalry of East and West over the African continent is concerned almost entirely with natural resources.This absorbing and often astonishing history of legendary gems is told with style and wit by expert gemmologist Eric Bruton.
Amid legends and intrigue are hard facts about gems classification, valuation and engraving. Prospecting and mining details, plus the inside (and sometimes sordid) stories of how enormous stones were cut and dispersed in great secrecy, make this book a must read for the gemmologist and jeweller.

Book Title: Legendary Gems
Author: Eric Bruton
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780719804014
About the Author: Eric Bruton was also the author of the highly successful Diamonds, as well as many other books. He was for many years editor of The Gemmologist, the first journal in the world devoted to the study of gemstones. He had also been the editor of Industrial Diamond Review, and the founder of the trade newspaper Retail Jeweller. He held the Diploma Fellowship of the Gemmological Society of Great Britain, and was involved in the international gem trade. Much of the background for Legendary Gems was gleaned first hand by the author in the gem mines of India, Africa, Asia and South America. Eric Bruton died in 2000.
Publisher: NAG Press
Title Release: January 2009

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