This article discusses how the gemstone jade mediates guanxi (‘personal relationships’), and trade in China. Outlining some affective, spiritual, moral somatic meanings efficacies of jade, especially as a gift, first materialities, cultural history ontology influence human interactions with, through, contemporary Secondly, presents more economically instrumental investments in, exchanges of, wh...

The article discusses nonstandard gemstone names – the of precious stones that do not belong to official international mineralogical terminology. In Russian linguistics, this lexical group remains understudied. paper reflects on ideographic specifics names. It deals with crystals used in Middle Urals dialectal speech as well language stonecutters, hunters, and amateur minerologists. This territ...

This article describes the geology and industrial mineral potential of corundum, pyrophyllite and andaluite at the Empress deposit in the Taseko Lakes area (Figure 1). The Empress is a copper-goldmolybdenum porphyry deposit located 225 kilometres north of Vancouver and 50 kilometres northwest of Goldbridge and the Bralorne mining camp. Fine-grained corundum, in association with andalusite-pyrop...

For many centuries, emeralds have bejeweled the rich and famous all over the world. Emeralds have also made many millionaires overnight, sometimes by chance, as in some of the cases reported in this study. On the other hand, even though emeraldmining has brought some economic benefits,many of these have remained at the top of the production chain. In many cases mining activities have caused a n...

OBJECTIVE To assess the feasibility of visualizing hand and foot tendon anatomy and disorders by Gemstone Spectral Imaging (GSI) high-definition CT (HDCT). MATERIALS AND METHODS Thirty-five patients who suffered from hand or foot pain were scanned with GSI mode HDCT and MRI. Spectrum analysis was used to select the monochromatic images that provide the optimal contrast-to-noise ratio (CNR) fo...

Two historic-period metal artifacts were provided by the New Mexico Historic Sites to Los Alamos National Laboratory for non-destructive analysis. The a crossbow quarrel (or bolthead) and reliquary pendant recovered from Kuaua Pueblo (also known as Coronado Site) in Bernalillo, NM. is heavily patinated that had been flattened due compressive forces. consisted of casing previously surrounded two...

This article considers a short text that was widely circulated in the mid- Roman Empire, both four-line and six-line version, usually on gemstones. The is poem of sorts, but quite distinctive type. Part it can be scanned according to rules classical (quantitative) metre, more striking consistent rhythmic (stressed) pattern. Stressed poetry not otherwise attested so early; this may point substra...

Abstract Recently found historical jewellery (Czech Republic) was subjected to detailed analyses determine the gem inlays and gold framework in which they are embedded. Such find fits into European archaeological artefacts containing similar stones from around fifth century CE. The gemstones were analysed with optical microscopy Raman micro-spectroscopy their mineralogical characteristics out t...