Visit to Tanzania and Kenya marks 17 years of rigorous scientific studyCarlsbad, Jan. 30, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- CARLSBAD, Calif. – January 30, 2025 – GIA field gemologists recently completed their ...

These samples are rarely found outside of Kimberley, South Africa ... Generally, Tanzanite (or Zoisite) is found in a reddish brown that is heat-treated to turn the stone sapphire blue, amethyst ...

The GIA team collected tsavorite, spinel and sapphire rough, verifying and recording the precise origin of each sample ...

During the expedition, the GIA team went deep underground with tsavorite and tanzanite ... stone identification and origin report services. GIA scientists and gemologists have also made collection and ...

Instead, it addressed South Africa, freezing aid to the country among other measures over its government’s alleged “egregious actions.” “We will not be bullied,” South Africa’s ...

US President Donald Trump signed an executive order Friday aimed at freezing assistance to South Africa over a controversial law that allows the government to seize farmland from ethnic minorities ...

WASHINGTON − President Donald Trump on Friday signed an executive order vowing to stop “aid and assistance” to South Africa over “human rights violations” including a land reform act ...

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa spoke to Elon Musk “on issues of misinformation and distortions about South Africa,” the presidency announced on Tuesday. “In the process, the ...

The U.S. president said on Sunday, without citing evidence, that "South Africa is confiscating land" and "certain classes of people" were being treated "very badly", adding that he would cut off ...

JOHANNESBURG, Feb 3 (Reuters) - South Africa's foreign ministry said on Monday that its expropriation act was not exceptional, after U.S. President Donald Trump said he would cut off funding to ...