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Traditional Pearl Diving Competition in Qatar 
The first-ever Traditional Pearl Diving Competition is set to boost Qatar’s tourism sector with a line-up of spectacular events which would appeal to all ...

Should Keshi Pearls be Considered Natural Pearls? 
Should Keshi pearls be considered natural pearls?

The Swiss Gemmological Insititute SSEF has received large quantities of saltwater pearls for certification ...

Palawan Princess - 5 Pound Pearl - Up for Auction 
Rare and Immense Natural Non-Nacreous Pearl—“The Palawan Princess”

Bonhams Natural History Auction

Sunday, 1PM, December 6, 2009 in Los Angeles
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Bahrain Pearl News 
Bahrain Pearl News

Pearl Collections & Exhibitions 
pearl collections and exhibitions

SSEF and Bahrain Agree on Pearl Research  Not rated yet
SSEF and Bahrain Agree on Pearl Research.

Officials of the Swiss Gemmological Institute SSEF, Basel, Switzerland, and the Directorate of Precious Metals ...

New Zealand's Marshall Island Harvests Pearls  Not rated yet
New Zealand's Marshall Island Harvests Pearls

The first pearl harvest in the Marshall Islands in five years has sparked renewed interest among leaders ...

Precious Rare Pearl  Not rated yet
Precious rare pearl found while eating mussels.

A woman eating mussels she had collected for her dinner was stunned after she nearly swallowed a rare ...

Australian Prime Minister Wears Pearls!  Not rated yet
Australian Prime Minister Wears Pearls!

WHAT do you give a woman who has just become the nation's first female prime minister?

In Julia Gillard's ...

Pearls Catalog by Hubert Bari & David Lam  Not rated yet
Far from an ordinary catalogue, "Pearls" seeks to educate its reader on not only the beauty of the pearls and jewelry featured in the exhibition, but also ...

Mikimoto Educates Children about Pearls  Not rated yet
Mikimoto Educates Children about Pearls

It was a long way from the high-class jewelry showrooms of Paris, London or Tokyo's Ginza, but on Thursday at ...

History of Majorica pearls from Mallorca  Not rated yet
History of Majorica pearls from Mallorca...


The success of the Manacor pearl from Mallorca dates back to 1897 in Barcelona, where a German named Friedrich ...

Edgy Pearl Designs  Not rated yet
Edgy pearl designs

Slide show of non-traditional pearl designs for the nonconformists among us.

Tired of classic pearl designs? Have clients who ...

Jackie O.'s Faux Pearls up for Auction  Not rated yet
Jackie O.'s Faux Pearls up for Auction





First Lady Jackie Kennedy, Walking Through Crowd in Udaipur During a Visit to India

Photographic ...

Cleopatra's pearl   Not rated yet
Cleopatra's pearl

Cleopatra, fabled final Queen of Egypt, packed a pretty mean pearl cocktail, according to legend.

To win a bet, the story goes,...

Persian Gulf Pearls  Not rated yet
Persian Gulf pearls world's finest

In the past, some of the world’s finest natural pearls came from the Gulf region. As early as the third millennium ...

Pearl Diving in Kuwait  Not rated yet
Pearl Diving in Kuwait

The 22-year-old festival is an attempt to keep alive the traditions of pearl diving, an industry once central to the Gulf’s economy ...

Bahrain Pearl Search  Not rated yet
Bahrain Pearl Search

It was tiny, not much larger than a grain of sugar, or as one of my companions put it somewhat prosaically, rather like a piece ...

Melo Pearl Lecture in Bangkok  Not rated yet
Melo Pearl Lecture in Bangkok

The Gemological Institute of America (GIA) Thailand will host a pearl lecture, “Melo Reflections,” by Nicholas Sturman,...

Gorgeous Girls & Pearls Safari  Not rated yet
Gorgeous Girls & Pearls Safari Broome, Australia

Gourmet Safaris and Pinctada Cable Beach are to host a second Gorgeous Girls & Pearls Safari to coincide ...

Broome, Australia, Built on Buttons  Not rated yet
Broome, Australia, Built on Buttons

Pearls mean a lot in Broome. It's fair to say the town wouldn't exist if it wasn't for those creamy nuggets, which ...

Ama Pearl Divers  Not rated yet
Ama Pearl Divers of Japan

THE elderly women sit in a semicircle by a smouldering fire, warming up after diving for shellfish delicacies in the cool ...

Chanel Lion with Pearl   Not rated yet
Chanel Lion with Pearl

A monumental lion, teeth bared and one front paw resting proprietorially on a giant pearl, held centre stage, its golden coat ...

Pearl Diver Math Game  Not rated yet
Free Pearl Diver Math Game

Throw on your diving helmet, and head into the depths of the sea! Dive amidst shipwrecks and sunken ruins for the valuable ...

Pearls auction in Bora Bora  Not rated yet
Pearls auction in Bora Bora

The French Polynesia minister in charge of pearls Temauri Foster announced last week that a major pearls' auction should ...

Natural Pearl Earring  Not rated yet
Natural pearl earring found in Jerusalem.

A 2,000 year old gold earring inlaid with pearls and precious stones was discovered in excavations that the ...

Bahrain Pearl Testing  Not rated yet
Bahrain Pearl Testing

Bahrain is spearheading international efforts to find ways to detect a new type of cultured pearls that cannot be distinguished ...

Paris Gallery to Buy Qatar Diving Competition Pearls  Not rated yet
Paris Gallery to Buy Qatar Diving Competition Pearls

The Paris Gallery yesterday announced it would purchase the pearls collected at the 2010 GCC Traditional ...

Identifying Pearls and Nuclei by Optical Coherence Tomography  Not rated yet
Identifying Pearls and Nuclei by Optical Coherence Tomography

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) has been utilized to evaluate pearls including their ...

Bahrain Pearls Expo  Not rated yet
Bahrain Pearls Expo

The Bahrain Pearls Expo today opened at the Education Ministry auditorium in Isa Town. Shaikha Lulwa bint Khalifa bin Salman Al ...

Mikimoto to Display Marilyn Monroe Pearls  Not rated yet
Mikimoto to Display Marilyn Monroe Pearls

The Marilyn Monroe pearl necklace will be displayed in its original oval, leather, velvet-line box as part ...

Beadless Pearls  Not rated yet
Understanding beadless pearls...


Many retail buyers have been exploring unusual pearl products such as petal, wing, soufflé, and baroque pearls. But ...

Pearl Diving Contest  Not rated yet
Pearl diving contest finished in Qatar

The 2010 Traditional Pearl Diving Competition came to a successful conclusion yesterday as the best performing ...

Pearl Fishers Review  Not rated yet
Pearl Fishers Review

If it did not include one of the most popular of all operatic lollipops – the tenor-and-baritone duet Au Fond du Temple Saint – surely ...

Mikimoto Eyes China Market  Not rated yet
Mikimoto has also seen strong demand from Chinese shoppers in Japan. Sales to Chinese customers at its main store in Tokyo's posh Ginza district tripled ...

Michelle in Pearls  Not rated yet
Michelle Obama attended the 2010 Women's Summit in Reno, Nevada on Tuesday wearing a coral colored sundress paired with a pearl necklace. She told the ...

Cultured 'Keshi' Pearls Threaten Natural Pearl Market  Not rated yet
Cultured 'Keshi' Pearls Threaten Natural Pearl Market

The Keshi type of pearl threatens the natural pearl trade in Bahrain and the world, and these ...

How to wear pearls  Not rated yet
How to wear pearls

This classic opaque gem has intrigued and captivated for centuries, from the 2000-year-old pearl necklace belonging to a Persian ...

Perfect Pearl Necklace  Not rated yet
Perfect pearl necklace...

It has taken five years of searching through $100 million worth of pearls - 25 harvests from five pearl farms - to arrive ...

Pearl Gathering in Scotland is Banned   Not rated yet
Pearl gathering in Scotland is banned.

WILDLIFE experts fear internationally important sites for threatened freshwater pearl mussels may have been wrecked ...

Pearl - the Movie  Not rated yet
Pearl-the Movie - The Warren Theatre in Moore had the red carpet out Tuesday as cast and crew from the Oklahoma-made movie "Pearl" attended the Oklahoma ...

Pearls Found in Mexican Tomb  Not rated yet
Pearls found in Mexican tomb. The principal figure was richly adorned with jade beads, a loincloth with pearls , jade pendants of different shapes on ...

Indonesian Pearls Plentiful  Not rated yet
Indonesian pearls plentiful...The Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Fadel Muhammad stated that Indonesia has become the number one market worldwide ...

Michelle Obama in Pearls  Not rated yet
Michelle Obama in pearls addresses the USA military wives.

Michelle Obama speaks during the 'When Parents Deploy: Understanding the Experiences of Military ...

World's Rarest Pearls  Not rated yet
World's rarest pearls

The International Pearl Revival committee and the Gemological Institute of America, GIA presented H.H.Sheikha Fatima Bint Mubarak,...

Pearl of Great Price  Not rated yet
Pearl of Great Price

"Those who dive in the sea of affliction bring up rare pearls."
Charles Spurgeon

I was thinking about this quote the other ...

Pearls of Time Watches by Louis Golay  Not rated yet
Pearls of time watches by Louis Golay...

Pearls trapped under a cage of white gold and diamonds. This is the main concept in the Louis Golay Pearls ...

Tennis with Pearls Anyone?  Not rated yet
Tennis with pearls anyone?

By TOM BONE Bluefield Daily Telegraph

the Bluefield High School girls, maybe their pearls had something to do with it....

Pearl Essence Finalists Honored  Not rated yet
Pearl Essence Finalists Honored

The Dubai Pearl Exchange, a subsidiary of the Dubai Multi Commodities Centre (DMCC), will honor the 11 students selected ...

Pearls Before Swine Stays Fresh  Not rated yet
Pearls Before Swine Stays Fresh


For Stephan Pastis, blasting U2 on his iPod and dancing by himself are essential components of his workday.

The ...

Bride's Dress with 999 Pearls  Not rated yet
Bride's dress with 999 pearls...

As befits Malaysia’s first, officially certified supermodel, Chia, 29, wore a simple yet striking gown at her wedding ...

Cartier's Love Affair with Persian Gulf Pearls  Not rated yet
Cartier's Love Affair with Persian Gulf Pearls

A photo exhibition celebrating the GCC's pearl trade and its contribution to exquisite pieces of jewellery ...

2010 Pearl Blue Book  Not rated yet
2010 Pearl Blue Book

Jewelers and manufacturers that sell cultured pearls have a new set of guidelines in regards to nomenclature, grading standards ...

Natural Pearls & Antique Jewelry in Las Vegas  Not rated yet
Natural pearls and antique jewelry in Las Vegas...

Magnificent antique jewelry and gems will be showcased by more than 300 nationally and internationally ...

Gemstone Nucleation Legalized in French Polynesia  Not rated yet
Gemstone Nucleation Legalized in French Polynesia.

Changes to cultivation regulations by the French Polynesian government allow Galatea: Jewelry by ...

Stanford Who's Who welcomes Blair P. Catanach   Not rated yet
Stanford Who's Who welcomes Blair P. Catanach to the ranks of premier professionals as a result of his incredible work in the Jewelry Industry. As Managing ...

Black Pearl Restaurant on Denver Hot List  Not rated yet
Black Pearl Restaurant on Denver Hot List

This is a first: As dining critic at The Denver Post, a post I've held since 2005, I've yet to review a restaurant ...

Sarah Palin in Pearls  Not rated yet
Sarah Palin in pearls...hey, I thought the look was great, others obviously didn't, but then have you noticed that some don't like anything this lady does?...

Artificial Nacre   Not rated yet
Artificial nacre can now be massed produced.


Nacre, or mother of pearl, is one of the toughest and most beautiful natural materials on Earth. Now ...

Pearl Brooches on Shoes  Not rated yet
Pearl brooches on shoes

You may have some beautiful baubles and brooches in your own jewelry stash. Pull them out and assess whether you wear them or ...

Natural Pearl Values Increase  Not rated yet
Natural pearl values increase...

This increase was driven by substantial growth in the natural pearls segment, where volumes increased by 50 percent ...

845 Carat Pinctada Maxima Pearl  Not rated yet
845 Carat Pinctada Maxima Pearl

Found in a pinctada maxima oyster on the seabed north-west of Zadetgyi Island, the world’s largest donated nacreous ...

100 Carat Conch Pearl  Not rated yet
100 Carat Conch Pearl from Burma

When local fishermen trawling off the southern Burmese coast reeled in their net, they found a gigantic conch trapped ...

Pearl Necklaces Benefit Water for Life  Not rated yet
Pearl Necklaces Benefit Water for Life


The often not-so-nimble fingers of the adolescent boys and girls adeptly fed the elastic string through the ...

Ceremonial Pearl Necklace for Sale at Sotheby's  Not rated yet
Emperor Yongsheng's Ceremonial Pearl Necklace for Sale at Sotheby's

A ceremonial court pearl necklace from the Qing dynasty is displayed in front of ...

Royal Pearls Recovered  Not rated yet
Royal pearls recovered


When Prince William bought Kate Middleton a pair of pearl earrings for her 28th birthday, he carefully tracked down the finest ...

Pearl Power at Tucson's Gem Show  Not rated yet
Pearl Power at Tucson's Gem Show

In pearls, it’s all about interesting shapes, unusual combinations and rich natural colors, with Chinese freshwater ...

Pearl Drill  Not rated yet
Pearl Drill


* Precision drilling of all types of pearls, amber, copper, silver, gold, coral and other gemstones.
* Akoya pearls, Freshwater ...

Sea Pearls Collection  Not rated yet
Signature creations as Gilmore's Sea Pearls Collection place two Sydney chefs with the best in the world.

Chef Peter Gilmore was driving past the Australian ...

US Cultured Pearl Market Report  Not rated yet
US Cultured Pearl Market Report


GIA announces the release of a US report on Natural and Cultured Pearls markets. The US market for cultured pearls ...

Silk & Pearl Powder  Not rated yet
Silk & Pearl Powder

Right around New Years my Mom asked me if I would have her a powder for her face. She’s a stroke survivor and is finally to the ...

Pearl Blue Book Revisions  Not rated yet
Pearl Blue Book Revisions...

The Pearl Commission of CIBJO, The World Jewellery Confederation, has released its special report ahead of the 2010 CIBJO ...

Qatar's Pearl Exhibiton Highlights  Not rated yet
Qatar's Pearl Exhibition Highlights....


An important section of the exhibition is dedicated to Arabian Gulf pearls, with the public presentation of ...

Black Pearl Business  Not rated yet
A story of black pearl business...


He spent a lot of money having these pearls collected, processed into jewelry, and shipped to markets all around ...

Lady Gaga Covers Face with Pearls  Not rated yet
Lady Gaga Covers Face with Pearls

Gaga was also covered in white powder and in hundreds of white pearls. She also wore a white wig and strings of pearls ...

Pearls Catalog by Hubert Bari & David Lam  Not rated yet
Pearls Catalog released...

DOHA: Qatar Museums Authority has released a special catalogue titled “Pearls” to complement the ongoing temporary exhibition ...

Where Do Pearls Come From?  Not rated yet
'Where do pearls come from?' is a question whose answer many people would like to know. Though there are many rare gems, the pearl is the only gem that ...

You're Never Fully Dressed Without Your Pearls!  Not rated yet
I've been drawn to pearls for as long as I can remember. My Birthday is in June. My Birthstone is the pearl. Simple, stylish and elegant. They can be small ...

Girls to Pearls FREE BOOK DOWNLOAD  Not rated yet
"Girls to Pearls" A Young Woman’s Guide to Living Life Freely, Loving God Naturally, and Surviving Puberty Successfully


by J A C Q U E L I N E S ...

Rare Natural Pearl Display in Abu Dhabi  Not rated yet
The exceptionally rare pearl will be the major attraction of the Natural Pearl Display, which is being held from 25th January 2010. The Display, which ...

How to Take Care of Your Pearls  Not rated yet
Pearls have been a favorite for women around the world for a distinctive, yet subtle approach to understated elegance. Most of the jewelry sold are called ...

My Love Affair with Pearls  Not rated yet
Fortunately, in the last decade a huge South Sea pearl industry has sprung up in the Philippines. Traders from Mindanao sell huge quantities of South Sea ...

International Pearl Design Contest  Not rated yet
International Pearl Design Contest sponsored by Cultured Pearl Association of America.

Entries due by September 1, 2010.

Enter the CPAA competition ...

Gem Shows for February 2010  Not rated yet
The following are gem shows/jewelry shows for February, 2010, thanks to the "Jeweler To Jeweler Network".


07.02.2010 - 09.02.2010
2010 Antwerp Diamond ...

Oxidized Silver and Pearl Designs  Not rated yet
Oxidized silver and pearl designs...check out this Denmark blogger who states:

"There's nothing like a cold, Arctic night with stars, a pale white moon ...

Don't throw your pearls to the pigs!  Not rated yet
Don't throw your pearls to the pigs!

Certainly in God's eyes (and mine) Sarah's children are pearls, treasures that are worthy of God's best but in ...

Pearl Resturant Florida Haiti Assistance  Not rated yet
The PEARL Restaurant, in coalition with Gifford Youth Activity Center, U.S. Food Service, Republic National Distributing, Beyond Borders, and Missionary ...

Tatted Pearl Necklaces  Not rated yet
Alright, let's see. I started the day the same way I had ended the last, cutting apart a pearl necklace. The pink pearls were a pain in the neck to dismantle ...

Pearl Carpet of Baroda at Qatar Exhibit  Not rated yet
The second temporary exhibition ? Pearls ? at the Museum of Islamic Art (MIA), opening to public on January 30, will showcase some of the rarest pearls ...

Dramatic Pearls  Not rated yet





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I have always loved pearls. Today's modern approach can be as dramatic as you wish. Go oversized-although ...

People & Pearls  Not rated yet
People without pearls is well...like pearls without people. Famous & ordinary folks all like pearls.

Pearls Before Swine Issue  Not rated yet
How do you handle "Pearls before swine issue?"

So I deal with the "pearls before swine" issue in the same way I deal with it in open air preaching. In ...

Pearl and Diamond Jewelry Discovered  Not rated yet
Pearl and diamond jewelry discovered in shipwreck by Dominican Republic.





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The objects found include silver coins, jewels, gold ...

Pearl Tower in Shanghai Turns 15!  Not rated yet
A flamboyant statement of Shanghai’s aspirations to reclaim its position as Asia’s preeminent city, it’s a building which is difficult to be ambivalent ...

Pearl photos  Not rated yet
Pearl photos.

Artificial Pearls  Not rated yet
Articles on artificial pearls.

Quahog Pearls Amongst the Rarest of Gemstones  Not rated yet
Quahog pearls are amongst the rarest of gemstones but in fact, they are technically not pearls – they can still be very beautiful nevertheless, and they ...

Pearl expert visits Karats in Vail Village  Not rated yet
VAIL, Colorado — Koji Kawamoto the pearl man is coming to Vail. For the past 20 years, Kawamoto has studied and sold pearls. The sea-born treasures are ...

Places Named Pearl  Not rated yet
Places named pearl

Cultured Pearls with Gemstone Centers  Not rated yet
cultured pearls with gemstone centers

Eyris Pearls used in Catherine Best Designs  Not rated yet
Award winning European jewellery designer, Catherine Best, is putting Eyris Pearls into the super luxury end of the jewellery market. The Necklace “Star ...

Pearl Cake  Not rated yet
"I've only done two or three cakes around here that were covered with scrolls or something," Fowler said. "The most different cake I've done was covered ...

Ground Pearls in Turfgrass  Not rated yet
Ground pearls (Hemiptera: Margarodidae) are scale insects that suck fluids from the roots of bermudagrass, bahiagrass, carpetgrass, St. Augustinegrass,...

Cultured Conch Pearls  Not rated yet
cultured conch pearls

Pearl Promotions  Not rated yet
pearl promotions

Pearl Education 
Pearl Education

Lookforbeauty.com is a leading Online Store Selling Unique Pearl Jewelry  Not rated yet
Lookforbeauty.com came into existence in 2005, and since then has been enjoying their climb to prominence in the online jewelry game. Rapid growth has ...

China is promising to be biggest consumer of jewelry  Not rated yet
It was revealed from Jewelry Shanghai 2009 on May 13 that, by 2020, China's jewelry industry can expect annual sales of 300 billion yuan and exports worth ...

Estée Lauder Lauches Re-Nutriv Ultimate White Lifting Creme  Not rated yet
Crushed South Sea pearls – known to be the finest quality pearls produced from the world’s largest and rarest pearl oyster, pinctada maxima, found in the ...

Pearl News from India  Not rated yet
Pearl news from India.

Pearl articles  Not rated yet
pearl articles

Pearls Sold at Auctions 
Auctions are becoming an increasingly popular way to buy and sell pearls, both natural and cultured...see past & present postings here.

Tiffany Abandons Iridesse Pearl-Jewelry Chain   Not rated yet
Tiffany & Co., the world’s second- largest luxury-jewelry retailer, has decided to shutter its five-year-old chain of Iridesse pearl-jewelry shops after ...

Pearl Farm News 
Pearl Farm News

Sex, Death and Oysters: A Half-Shell Lover's World Tour   Not rated yet
Robb Walsh, the two-time James Beard Award-winning dining critic of the Houston Press, loves oysters. He even eats them for breakfast in a scrambled-egg ...

Australian Pearl News  Not rated yet
Australian Pearl news

Gem grader GIA cuts jobs at Carlsbad headquarters  Not rated yet
The Gemological Institute of America, the nation's top rater of diamonds, has cut 117 jobs at its Carlsbad headquarters, citing the global recession that ...

Pearls in the Arts  Not rated yet
Pearls in the Arts

Molluscs and Biofuel Technology  Not rated yet
The National Institutes of Health has awarded $4 million to a group of Philippine and American scientists led by Oregon Health and Science University to ...

US Senate Bans Import of Burmese Gems   Not rated yet
NEW YORK — Exactly one week after the United States House of Representatives passed the Block Burmese Jade Act, the Senate on Tuesday unanimously approved ...

US Congress Approves Legislation to Bar Myanmar Gems  Not rated yet
WASHINGTON (AFP) — The US Congress on Tuesday sent legislation to President George W. Bush seeking to block import of gems from Myanmar, in a move to deprive ...

Unusual Pearls  Not rated yet
unusual pearls

Margarita Pearls  Not rated yet
Margarita pearls found in a sunken ship are being preserved

Mikimoto Pearl News  Not rated yet
Mikimoto continues to maintain high quality pearl business...read Mikimoto news here.

Dubai Pearl News 
Dubai is pushing its way to the top of the pearl world..read the news here.

Natural Pearl News 
natural pearl news

Halstead Bead Business Development Grant   Not rated yet
Halstead Bead, Inc. is calling for entries to its third annual Business Development Grant competition for new designers entering the bridge jewelry trade....

Pearls Before Swine  Not rated yet
Pearls Before Swine