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Tamara de Rezende

Tamara de Rezende is a Customer Success Manager at Loupe, working with jewelry retailers in the US and internationally.

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Precious gemstones

Although there are many types of gemstones, almost everyone will recognise the names of the four precious stones: ruby, sapphire, emerald, and diamond.

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Beautiful blue sapphire earrings

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Sapphire: a royal gemstone

Sapphire is one of the four precious gemstones, alongside ruby, emerald, and diamond. A variety of the mineral corundum, it has long been prized for...

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emerald stone setting

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Emerald: the may birthstone

Emerald is one of the four precious stones, alongside ruby, sapphire, and diamond. It is known for its beautiful green color, found in different...

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loose jasper stone

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Jasper

Jasper is an opaque variety of quartz with a grainy, granular structure. It is composed primarily of silica and silicon dioxide and has traces of...

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freshwater pearl brooch

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Pearls - The queen of gems

Known as the Queen of Gems, pearls have been coveted for centuries across many civilizations, and have a particularly unusual creation process. A...

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different colors of fancy color diamonds

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The rarest of the rare: fancy color diamonds

Diamonds as most people think of them usually range from colorless to light yellow, and are graded using the jewelry industry’s D to Z color scale....

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Handcrafting beautiful amber jewelry

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Amber

Amber is probably best known for the artifacts that can be found preserved within it. Millions of years ago, when amber oozed from plants, the...

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Growing synthetic gemstones

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Created gemstones

A created gemstone is one that is made in a laboratory, but which shares virtually all chemical, visual, and physical characteristics of its natural...

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Stones with different hardness

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Understanding Mohs Hardness Scale

The Mohs Hardness Scale is a set of ten reference minerals (numbered 1 through 10, where one is the softest and ten is the hardest) that are used to...

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