So watch your mailbox for this year's Christmas Party invitation. Come and enjoy our hospitality and do your holiday shopping at the same time. Fine quality tanzanite is in short supply and high demand this season. If you're interested in tanzanite for gift giving, visit us soon. We have a nice selection of quality pieces that can be put on lay-away.
Dangerous Rubies Enter the U.S. Look out for radioactive rubies.
They appear normal, but you shouldn't touch them. The little beauties may be dangerous to your health. The rubies reportedly come from the same nuclear reactor in Indonesia that produced the radioactive cat's-eye chrysoberyl we reported on in a previous issue. The stones are speculated to have been irradiated in an effort to change their color to pink-orange which is one of the most prized hues or corundum. No one knows how many treated stones have entered the United States since the alert, and there is no way to distinguish them from others without testing for radiation with a Geiger counter.