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Jewelry Professional
Member since 13th June 2008
Occupation: Jewelry Professional Mithun Rao, a jewelry professional, holds degree in gemology and jewelry design from Mumbai and has spent 10 years in the industry (incuding running his own jewelry shop). With an obsession for gems and precious stones, he also shares a passion for music, painting and wishes to explore new places, and understand new cultures. He owns and manages the gemstones and diamonds site www.gehnabazaar.com
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08th September 2008
There is a large difference between the overall affect that an antique cut diamond has as compared to the brilliance of modern cut diamonds. While antique cut diamonds exude a certain subtle panache, the modern cuts provide a brilliance that is unparallel...
03rd September 2008
Diamond simulants are basically gems that look like the diamond but in reality are neither natural diamonds nor those that are produced synthetically. The popularity and appeal of the diamond are responsible for the numerous diamond simulants that are flo...
02nd September 2008
In the olden days the colored diamonds were named differently from how they are named now. The diamonds got their name from the specific location from where they were mined. This resulted in fair amount of confusion since there were multiple locations fro...
01st September 2008
The popularity and appeal of diamonds led to a situation where people wanted to create diamond look-alikes in the laboratory. Many experiments were done to perfect a laboratory process that could create diamonds that were close to the real thing. It was o...
27th August 2008
Diamond simulants are gemstones (natural or synthetic) that resembles a diamond and is mostly confused for a natural diamond. Diamond simulant is different from synthetic diamond where synthetic diamonds are man made and has almost the same chemical and p...
24th August 2008
Believe it or not in the olden days diamonds were considered too precious to cut. It was believed that cutting and polishing a diamond rough would rob of its great supernatural powers. The diamond was considered as a prestigious gemstone and only kings a...
17th August 2008
Everyone knows that diamonds is the hardest gemstone and women all over the world go crazy to own a diamond jewelry. This beautiful gemstone is renowned for its lustrous beauty, but very few people know of its ability to be used in other fields like elect...
14th August 2008
Diamonds that one sees in the jewelry does not come in that form from nature itself. It has to go through a very labourous and tedious process of planning, cutting and polishing before it reaches the ultimate consumers. These places where a diamond takes ...
20th July 2008
Usually natural gemstone buying is never seen as an investment. However, if one invests wisely, gemstones buying can be very profitable and remunerative too. The popular belief that a diamond is forever and it fetches up to 75% of the resale value and col...
18th July 2008
Jewellery industry is one of the India's top export earner, amounting to more than 16 billion US dollars, in the fiscal year 2006-07. This coupled with the zero import duty on diamonds entering into India has further enhanced the country to be claimant as...
17th July 2008
Many people who trade in diamonds do not realize that the manner in which you handle your diamonds and diamond jewelry can actually impact the jewelry business. But there is a very simple and basic reason why this is true.
Diamonds whether studded in j...
15th July 2008
Not many people know that the man behind the famous De Beers diamonds is Cecil John Rhodes, someone who started his association with diamonds with the simple business opportunity that involved selling water to the thirsty diggers at the mines. Cecil made ...
10th July 2008
Many jewelers do not realise the importance of packaging their jewelry the right and beautiful way.
An old adage states: "It's what inside that counts". In today's age, it is not always true - especially in the jewelry industry.
Imagine a beautiful...
07th July 2008
We have all felt at times that advertising is extremely important for any business to grow. Though scales may vary depending upon whether you are a multinational company, a large company or a small outlet, each and every business needs it to ensure that a...
27th June 2008
In 1952, the president of GIA Richard T.Liddicoat proposed to develop the GIA clarity grading system. With great effort and dedication, along with the support of Lester Bensen and Joe Phillips he took the big step. He was also assisted by Robert Crownings...
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