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  Science supports pearl to be the first nature-positive gem   With fewer than three weeks to go to the opening of the 2025 CIBJO Congress in Paris, France, on October 27, 2025, the eighth of the pre-congress Special Reports has been released . Prepared by the CIBJO Pearl Commission, headed by Kenneth Scarratt, the report concentrates largely on how scientific research is being used to promote the confidence of both consumers and the trade in pearl products and the pearl industry, including the promotion of the pearl as the first nature-positive gem.    The pearl industry is “today supported by an expanding body of scientific expertise, which seeks to assist in and ensure that it is not only one of the most responsible jewellery sectors, but also is among its most operationally transparent,” writes Scarratt in the opening to the extensive report.    A number of key pearl industry experts contributed to the preparation of the report, including Pe...

  CIBJO Congress 2025 releases Seventh Special Report    With fewer than four weeks to go to the opening of the 2025 CIBJO Congress in Paris, France, on October 27, 2025, the seventh of the pre-congress Special Reports has been released. Prepared by the CIBJO Gemmological Commission, headed by Hanco Zwaan, the report considers the possibility of CIBJO producing a list of gem laboratories that have committed to applying the standards, principles and nomenclature listed in the CIBJO Blue Books.    “There have in recent years been concerns expressed about gemstone reports issued by different labs for the same stones, with different and sometime contradictory findings,” writes Dr. Zwaan. “This has brought into question the qualifications of the laboratories issuing the reports, taking into consideration that, worldwide, there is very little official oversight as to what are the requirements for an organisation to claim to be a gem testing laboratory.” A key...