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Article: GIA to Issue Synthetic Reports Next Year.(Gemological Institute of America)(Brief article)
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- Jewelers Circular Keystone
- Article date:
- December 1, 2006
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By Rob Bates
The Gemological Institute of America will begin issuing synthetic diamond reports in January--after reversing course on the thorny nomenclature issues that stirred controversy when the reports were first announced.
GIA chairman Ralph Destino first talked of GIA's plans to grade synthetics at the World Diamond Congress in Tel Aviv, Israel, this summer. But manufacturers of the lab-grown stones complained about the sample reports' repeated use of the word synthetic , which GIA planned to inscribe on the stone's girdles.
In the new reports, the word synthetic is still used, but GIA will also use other phrases approved by the Federal ...