Instructor: Jill Banfield

This site provides an integrated body of information about gems and gemstones. Materials cover general topics central to gemology, mineralogy, and geology; with lectures and visual materials covering diamonds and diamond simulants, rubies, sapphires, varieties of beryl (e.g., emerald), and other precious and semi-precious stones (18 lectures, links to sites providing supporting information, hundreds of images and diagrams). Materials may be accessed freely.

No images or diagrams may be used or reproduced for commercial purposes. This as a condition of access to this site. When you visit our site you are agreeing to respect our intellectual ownership of the visual materials accessed at this site.

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