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On Wednesday Dave Troth introduced a yellow sapphire showcase with an account of the high price of these gems at an auction house in Geneva he had recently visited, as they are no longer being mined. He went on to auction a mixture of old stock from the Gemporia vault. The highest price was for...

I’ve also really noticed windowing everywhere on Gemporia items over the last year - even ‘luxury’ Loriques. Aquamarines, zircons and step cuts are particularly prone. Presenters always used to claim the company ‘cut for beauty, not carat weight’, but cutting windowed gems is not just from using...

I’m very disconcerted by the TrustPilot review about the test results on the jade bangle. While being suitably sceptical about Gemporia’s on-air hype, and angered for new viewers that these days the presenters never seem to mention treatments such as coating and filling of gems, I still buy from...

Wow! Jess’s “wow” quota has reached new levels this weekend with the Gems TV unveiling of peridot from the new Jilin mine in China, billed on the programme title as having been “discovered” by Gemporia. Weren’t they just invited on a marketing jolly? Jake likened it this morning to the discovery...

Earlier in the year, when Dave was hard-selling natural type A jadeite, I remember part of his pitch was, when this ran out (when will that be?!), Gemporia would need to buy types B (impregnated) and C (dyed), but he would never be on screen selling it - not up to his standards after all the...

I absolutely agree with you all about the current monotony of Gemporia’s broadcasting and the lack of jewellery tempting me to buy. Instead of the faceted, transparent, unenhanced (not coated) gems I have tuned in for for 10 years, the channel is now dominated by carved, often dyed (though this...

Khotan ‘mutton fat’ jade, which Gemporia has been selling repeatedly and especially over the past week or so, comes from China’s Xin-Jiang province, notorious for the mass internment by the Chinese of its native Uighur population. But what’s a bit of “re-education” among friends when the sales...