The Manicured Miner
The Manicured Miner
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A Visit to the Oceanview Mine
The Gem Geeks and I visit the Oceanview Mine in Pala, California!
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Видео

Let's Go Mining
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It's National Collect Rocks Day! Here are some tips and suggestions on what you'll need to go out and find some cool specimens of your own! Happy hunting everyone!
Anthill Garnet 101
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Here’s everything you need to know about Anthill Garnet!
Unboxing my JTV Order
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I purchased something from JTV. Watch this video to find out what it is and why I love it!
Mining for Gems with Gigi: Jackson's Crossroads Amethyst Mine
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Join Gigi as she and the Gem Squad visit Jackson's Crossroads Amethyst Mine in Tignall, Georgia! Learn how amethyst forms, see specimens, and meet some of the miners, owners, and fantastic people of Jackson's Crossroads.
How to Tell if a Ruby is Fake: Detective Gigi and the Case of the $2 Ruby
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A friend of mine recently purchased a “genuine 17.70 carat natural Burmese ruby” for $2 on an auction website. 🤣 Here is how a gemologist uses gemstone identification tools and tests to figure out the true identity of a gemstone! Here is a link to the spectroscope I am using: www.jtv.com/product/lightweight-gemvue-diffraction-spectroscope/GVT10 And here is a link to a very helpful book on how t...
Ammonite
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I recently had the pleasure of appearing on "By the Book: The Legacy of Jerry Sisk", where I spoke about the history, formation, and properties of ammonite and ammolite!
A little info on Ruby!
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Here's a clip from my recent appearance on "By the Book: The Legacy of Jerry Sisk" with JTV host Dawn Tesh. Let's talk about rubies, how they form, where they're found, and what makes them valuable!
Crabtree Emerald Mine, North Carolina
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Crabtree Emerald Mine, North Carolina
Diamond Hill Mine, South Carolina
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Diamond Hill Mine, South Carolina
Panning for Gold in Georgia
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Panning for Gold in Georgia
Consolidated Gold Mine Visit
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Consolidated Gold Mine Visit
Final video from Tucson - AGTA recap
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Final video from Tucson - AGTA recap
Final Thoughts Tucson Day 2
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Final Thoughts Tucson Day 2
Pueblo Show
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Pueblo Show
Fire Opal @ 22nd St Show
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Fire Opal @ 22nd St Show

Комментарии

  • @MohammadaliHusseini-hm2qv
    @MohammadaliHusseini-hm2qv 4 дня назад

    Send me this ruby ​​you have in your hand.

  • @_Redu
    @_Redu 6 дней назад

    Thanks for the great info really but are you nuts prof GG? So you say it is infact a chemically proper 17.7 carats super clean Ruby with no inclusions... yet it's not the ice on the mountain but the ice made in the fridge... SO WHAT? It's $2 for Gods sake... Now somebody has to make a proper justification for $750K vs $2. I have to tell.. this jewelry business is over... You can now have Farrah Diba's tiaras for max $500 and they will be just OK. Thank you very much.

  • @abuhamza1970
    @abuhamza1970 15 дней назад

    Hi Gigi, thanks for the brilliant video. QQ which are the labs/certificates that you can trust without having to have a PhD in Gemology? Thanks from the UK

  • @kdmil2002
    @kdmil2002 Месяц назад

    I thought you were going to prove that this was glass or cubic zirconia. When you said it was really a ruby, I wanted to know that name of that lab so bad. I have been looking at synthetic rubies and one company was charging $1,675 for two carats. Now that I see that color and carat weight on that stone you are testing, I realize that the $1675 price might be a total scam. The problem I am running into is that no jeweler seems to have lose stones to be able to really compare to see what the price points should really be on lab grown rubies.

  • @correctcyabonga1302
    @correctcyabonga1302 Месяц назад

    And I have lot kind of colureful stones here can you pls send me a link where to talk to you abt how to tell there kind

  • @zackfosters8326
    @zackfosters8326 3 месяца назад

    I have rough rubies. Big ones

  • @dylanlaurence3931
    @dylanlaurence3931 3 месяца назад

    This was the best rundown on rubies I’ve seen, AND you probably just saved me about $200 on buying a gemstone analyzer - THANK YOU!!

  • @ΣωτηρησΜιχος-μ5τ
    @ΣωτηρησΜιχος-μ5τ 4 месяца назад

    😊THANK you , you are great

  • @dragosnanu5085
    @dragosnanu5085 4 месяца назад

    Schmucks are paying a million dollars for the look of a 2 dollar stone.

  • @NapsNgo-tj3jf
    @NapsNgo-tj3jf 4 месяца назад

    Where can we talk

  • @NapsNgo-tj3jf
    @NapsNgo-tj3jf 4 месяца назад

    Where can we talk

  • @theefucck510
    @theefucck510 5 месяцев назад

    Her eyes are crazy

  • @Julietaazarconagmaildotcomyaho
    @Julietaazarconagmaildotcomyaho 6 месяцев назад

    I know the little dirty secrets of gemologist because I'm a gemologist, too.

  • @lemondedespiecesdemonnaie9441
    @lemondedespiecesdemonnaie9441 6 месяцев назад

    You are more beautiful than precious stones

  • @hezebelbeing
    @hezebelbeing 6 месяцев назад

    I inherited a Ruby ring that goes way back in my family, I am told late 1800s/19th Century, England. It is emerald cut and 12mm maybe btw 6 - 7carats? All the other pieces were real, amazing pearls bought in Morocco in the 1950s, diamonds. I get a nauseous just thinking about it. The odd thing about this piece is that it is set in what looks like simple, platinum, open back so that the light goes through and on the sides 9carat gold (which I'm told rings true of the era) the band of a slightly higher carat yellow gold and it is now worn so thin, due to age that the band snapped in the very back. When I used to wear it, every single time, someone would stop me. I had a man offer me money ON THE STREET, he was Iranian and just looked through a loop while it was on my hand. I don't want to leave it anywhere...am considering now that it would be safe to ship it to G.I.A. after watching many videos. Every local place...wants to keep it, take it and even the beautiful and reputable jewellers? No, I cannot. Is G.I.A. my best bet. I just need to know, as it's colour is amazing, it is completely flat on top, cut sides and back, good weight but I am no expert, I just know who owend it so ;). It is old, I don't think they had the science then...ZERO scratches and I even hit it very hard once quite by accident and no inclusions with the naked eye.

  • @ChrisSteve-mr6uh
    @ChrisSteve-mr6uh 7 месяцев назад

    Dam. She is amazingly beautiful

  • @TomG-f4r
    @TomG-f4r 7 месяцев назад

    How do you teach a mini- soda ruby to speak Burmese?...asking for a" 2:21 friend"

  • @brightphoebesays
    @brightphoebesays 8 месяцев назад

    I have a largish, lab grown, vintage (60's), ruby ring I bought for $500. Canadian, that I love. 😊My new colleagues were impressed. I then bought a ruby colour lipstick to go with it. ; )

  • @matthewdavis9437
    @matthewdavis9437 8 месяцев назад

    Link to 2 dollar synthetic ruby? 😂

  • @MusicintheBible
    @MusicintheBible 8 месяцев назад

    👏🏻👏🏻🐟

  • @tauqeerkhan9395
    @tauqeerkhan9395 8 месяцев назад

    Hi

  • @pippadawg7037
    @pippadawg7037 8 месяцев назад

    A former "attorney?" That odd terminology. Shouldn't you have said, "former lawyer.?" Attorney implies relationship with another person. Jim is a lawyer. Jim is her attorney. Anyone can be an attorney. You don't need to pass the bar or even go to law school to be an attorney. An attorney is just a representative for another person whereas a lawyer studied the law and practiced law. How could you not know that or care? Lawyers are supposed to understand the importance of using the right words and using language effectively. I guess law school is getting easier and people in general are getting sloppier.

    • @themanicuredminer7712
      @themanicuredminer7712 8 месяцев назад

      The American Bar Association does not differentiate between “lawyer” and “attorney”: www.dictionary.com/e/lawyer-vs-attorney/

    • @themanicuredminer7712
      @themanicuredminer7712 8 месяцев назад

      But since I am no longer a practicing lawyer, I usually go with “attorney”!

  • @JamesBrown-hs6vg
    @JamesBrown-hs6vg 9 месяцев назад

    Is it rotten granite or decomposed granite?

  • @BenjiNathaniel
    @BenjiNathaniel 10 месяцев назад

    Actually Opal is the queen of gemstones. Ruby is the king

  • @jeffreynapisa122
    @jeffreynapisa122 10 месяцев назад

    I seen the episode of pawn stars where they gave the owner 10k....you know if they gave the owner 10k they probably knew it was worth 100k or more.....that disgusted me to k ow they took advantage of her.

  • @shercon2522
    @shercon2522 10 месяцев назад

    This is AGI lab in New Delhi in India. Beware of them

  • @vidyaranirao6432
    @vidyaranirao6432 10 месяцев назад

    It is cheaper to buy in India. Secondly you did not say whether it's synthetic or lab crated ruby or natural ruby. End you stressed on you lab and it's authenticity.

  • @FegorMalysev
    @FegorMalysev 11 месяцев назад

    Очень красивая девушка ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤😂😂😂😂😂❤❤

  • @U.S.A.
    @U.S.A. 11 месяцев назад

    I just can't understand these sellers, for $2 I don't care if it's artificial, I think for $2 a real artificial ruby is worth it, they don't have to bullshit about that it's natural. I've got a 30x20mm artificial ruby, I wanted to check out how much it would worth if it would be natural, first I didn't find any advertisement, but then google showed me the world's biggest natural gem-quality ruby and it is 21x19mm (it was mined in 2022, so it's a new record), so my ruby is bigger than the word's biggest natural gem-quality ruby which means that I can check whether or it's natural with just a ruler.

  • @roadway2peace
    @roadway2peace Год назад

    at you site it mentioned, Red Mahaleo Ruby. what is it? Real or Lab created?

    • @kdmil2002
      @kdmil2002 Месяц назад

      Red Mahaleo Ruby is a brown ruby that has been color treated to make it more red. By what I understand, brown rubies are not really rare like the red ones, so that is why you can get a treated brown ruby for so little money. I have not seen Mahaleo rubies that really have much transparency or brilliance. They seem to quite opaque and the red is more maroon and dark. They can still look nice, in a gold setting, but do not expect much flash from the stone.

  • @PreciousStoneHunters
    @PreciousStoneHunters Год назад

    Actually base on our researched Gemologist has none sense gemological analyst proceedure,,they let people confuse about gemstones...do you know why gemologist afraid for scratch test? Instead they're using manifulated technological advancement to deceive people..because gemologist and gemstone Industry are sabotage business,,creating myth price of Laboratory made gemstones..we knew all the the secrets of certified gemstones,,those aren't real.

  • @ddcmr9
    @ddcmr9 Год назад

    I see two gems in this video you have beautiful eyes, Green and desirable.

  • @pdxeddie1111
    @pdxeddie1111 Год назад

    well what are you going to lose if you paid two bucks? think I paid four five bucks for one of those naturally grown lab rubies too before I realized how rare they were I just concluded it was likely lab grown or glass for whatever gems you get from India

  • @danielcedenoortiz552
    @danielcedenoortiz552 Год назад

    Please i need to send you a photo of my stone

  • @ZadenZane
    @ZadenZane Год назад

    I bought 5 *emeralds" from the same website, they arrived last week. 3 were emerald cut and translucent, the other 2 were round cut and darker. They averaged about 16 carats each. To my untrained eye they did look like middling quality emeralds and curiosity was eating me alive just to see what I got. Just under 3 weeks after ordering, a lumpy little package arrived. I could barely breathe for excitement. The stones were precisely as pictured. The one stone I particularly wanted was aqua coloured and very mottley with loads of inclusions so I picked this one out and held it to the light and just as the gem people say (for a fake stone) the colour followed the cracks, so what you saw was a white translucent stone with finest emerald green in all the cracks. So I'm guessing it's dyed quartz. The cutting is uneven on all the stones. They do feel like actual stone of some kind and not glass; the stone itself is rough and uneven. These "gems" would be great for jewellery making just for practice so I'm really glad I bought them, also to have examples of what to look for in fakes. To me they're worth the $3 each I paid. Yes, $15 for a pack of 5. Your friend got a bargain!

  • @NisarAhmad-tc3ji
    @NisarAhmad-tc3ji Год назад

    👌nice 👍piece

  • @AliRaza-bu8hb
    @AliRaza-bu8hb Год назад

    Please send me your phone number please....

  • @michaelmallal9101
    @michaelmallal9101 Год назад

    Lovely pearl necklace.

  • @janbounds911
    @janbounds911 Год назад

    Most people aren't aware that most of the rubies and sapphires in jewelry stores are actually lab-grown anymore, and have been for decades, because natural ones, esp rubies, are so prohibitively expensive.

  • @josheaves9753
    @josheaves9753 Год назад

    Can i have that please 🙏

  • @charlessavoie2367
    @charlessavoie2367 Год назад

    The stones finish behind her in looks.

  • @sawjone720
    @sawjone720 Год назад

    Hi can I have your number because I got burmese natural ruby.

  • @Ali-mu9ou
    @Ali-mu9ou Год назад

    hi

  • @robertaftrimmer4949
    @robertaftrimmer4949 Год назад

    Very nicely done - thank you!

  • @miguelrosales1559
    @miguelrosales1559 Год назад

    I have alot from India 😢 I think all fake 2😢

  • @2FindOut
    @2FindOut Год назад

    I dont understand. Even if it were just glass the printed pvc card and cutting and processed ruby is still worth way more than 2$ plus shipping. ?? How much is it worth

  • @greg3237
    @greg3237 Год назад

    Gigi, Would you be willing to take a look at a few pieces i have ? Its a mix of opals, saphires, emeralds, and rubies

  • @dert3rmin4tor23
    @dert3rmin4tor23 Год назад

    This entire "real" gemstone thing is so funny to me, a chemist. The lab ruby is a true ruby. There is no doubt in it. Also a lab grown ruby is even tronger than a slow grown ruby in the nature. The most perfect rubys are the one that are mad in a lab.

    • @snowjae9380
      @snowjae9380 Год назад

      It is also funny to me, as I work in STEM. Lab grown also have less imperfections.

  • @sweetrosehoney1184
    @sweetrosehoney1184 Год назад

    I don't know mine is real or fake I buy from China she said natural ruby.almost 100usd.

  • @nickelstacking2023
    @nickelstacking2023 Год назад

    Are you still on JTV ? Do you have an Art channel?