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GIA will offer special laboratory services, gem and jewelry seminars, classes and more during the annual Tucson gem shows. The Institute’s show offerings will be at the Tucson Convention Center during the American Gem Trade Association (AGTA) GemFair™, Feb. 4-9, and the Tucson Gem and Mineral Show, Feb. 13-16.

Two free seminars will explore recent gemological discoveries and research, and the Museum of London’s extraordinary Cheapside Hoard exhibit. The Institute will also offer two lab classes – colored stone grading and pearl grading – and two fee-based seminars – identifying synthetic diamonds and identifying diamond treatments.

The GIA Alumni Association will sponsor its annual dinner, auction and dance event, “Party at the GIA Gem Mine,” on Feb...
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Responding to continued demand from its retail audience for lab training, the Atlanta Jewelry Show will once again offer two GIA Lab classes in conjunction with the August 3-5, 2013 Atlanta Jewelry Show.  

Providing a mix of lecture and hands-on training in an action-oriented environment, the GIA Colored Stone Grading Labs will run from Wednesday, July 31 to Friday, August 2 and Saturday, August 3 to Monday, August 5, 2013 at the Cobb Galleria Centre. "We first offered the GIA Lab Classes during the  August 2011 Atlanta Jewelry Show and the response was so favorable that we've been offering them ever since," explains Carol Young, executive director, SJTA, producers and...
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