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Inclusions can tell a natural diamond’s story. What can we learn from this snail-shaped one? 🐌

This 4.00 ct near-colorless diamond contains a purple-red pyrope garnet crystal and a green diopside crystal suspended together to make what looks like a snail. Inclusions like these can help verify what environment a diamond formed in. In this case, the diamond likely formed in an ultramafic peridotite environment. While different types of inclusions often occur independently within diamond, it is quite rare to find more than one occurring simultaneously, let alone in contact with each other.

This photomicrograph was taken at a field of view 1.99 mm.

Photo courtesy of Christopher Vendrell

Learn more about this unique inclusion here: https://bit.ly/3VUzRWq

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Happy international women's day👭💃

The Tucson Fine Mineral Gallery would like to express a huge thank you to everyone who was involved in our recent Fundraising Weekend in aid of Breast Cancer Charity.

We are delighted to announce that an incredible total of $60,401 was raised for the Arizona Oncology Foundation, who specialize in the aftercare of ladies fighting breast cancer.

Special thanks, first and foremost, must go to our President, Debbie Boyer, and Bryan Swoboda of BlueCap Productions, who both worked tirelessly to ensure this event was a success.

We’d also like to express our gratitude to Heritage Auctions for acting as auctioneers for our charity auction, and all the dealers and exhibitors who made donations. These were as follows: Ksenia Levterova, Crystal Classics, Wulfenita, UK Mining Ventures, Rudolph Minerals, Focal Crystal, Stew Niebert, Wilensky Exquisite Minerals, The Collector’s Edge, Most High Minerals (Jarret Ross), Arkfeld Minerals, Investments from Earth Fine Mineral Specimens, Pinnacle5 Minerals, Rocko Minerals, MCP, Stonetrust, Fine Minerals International, Little Big Stone, Loye & Lemon, Nick Stolowitz Fine Minerals, Ertashar Pacific Minerals, Saga Minerals, Munsteiner, Viridis Gems, Patrick Dreher, Digforgems (Jeff Swanger).

Furthermore, special thanks must also go to our guest speakers for Ladies Day, Gail Spann and Diana Atieno.

And finally, can we also say a big thank you to everyone who purchased an item at our auction and who purchased a cloud in hope/memory of someone for our pink mineral wings, as well as the kind donations made during the gala evening and to all the lovely ladies who attended the Ladies Day event on Sunday.

Thank you for supporting this very worthy cause.

Round of applause! Revealing YOUR favorite jewel of 2023 on this account: ⁠ Tiger Continuum ring in 18-karat rose gold with champagne diamonds 🤩👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

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