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You will most definitely have to give up your real name for this, I'm guessing we've both been out to place for so long we no longer have to abide by any NDA in those contracts. But you'd need to prepare for the well paid lawyers to have a pop.

Tanzanite isn't pulled from the ground blue, it's brown until heated. Very clever tactics to sell it as if it came out the ground that colour. The cut also comes into play.

https://www.balticessentials.com/blogs/news/learn-to-spot-fake-amber Some interesting information on there. I believe Gemporias amber is real but the inclusions are "made". They're very round and flat, almost like the end of a hot knife than actual leaves. Gemporia has had some beautiful amber...

Sad thing with customers gifts is many times they were regifted to staff or just left to gather dust in the green room. Saw it once on a studio tour.

The "middlemen" were actually sellers on the website Alibaba. You can search that site and find all the same carvings. The trade fair videos are mostly just the talent going round pretending to buy massive amounts of stones when I'm reality they wait until the end of the show and buy the...

The start figure has long been used as a marker for what you "could" pay if you went to a brick and mortar store. Although it's a little exaggerated sometimes. Specially the jade, if you rabbit hole Sally hua you can find a website selling the same carvings for $3 a pop.