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Remember the 30 minute Earring Challenge? Well this is yet another chance to be published! Jewelry Design Challenge: 30-Minute Necklaces Publisher: Lark Books Editor: Marthe Le Van Proposal Deadline: August 3, 2009 Are you a skilled and imaginative jewelry designer who is up for a challenge? Great! Your mission is to design a necklace or […]

Enter here:http://www.jewelryartistmagazine.com/contest/gemmysentry.cfm 2010 Deadline: August 1, 2009 DIVISIONS:Faceted Ge ms • Cabochon Gems • Specially Cut Gems • Gem Objects • Artists on the Horizon Faceted GemsStones must be flat faceted; concave or convex faceted stones should be entered in the Specially Cut division. Cabochon GemsStones must be any natural gem material cut in a cabochon shape, and must be suitable for jewelry use. Specially Cut […]

The following story appeared in Creamer Media’s “Mining Weekly” as “Another 15 dead illegal miners found at Free State mine“  by Marian Webb   JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – The illegal miners death toll at South African gold producer Harmony Gold’s Eland shaft has now reached 76, after more bodies were found on Thursday morning. Spokesperson Marian van der […]

Photo: Richard Drucker, of Gemworld International from the JCK Newsletter This weekend is the JCK Show in Las Vegas and for those of us who couldn’t be there… JCK publishes a daily newsletter so for my Link post – this weekend we sill check out some of the really great seminars at the JCK Show: […]