When Philippe Belley came to the University of British Columbia to study how gemstones form, he didn’t think he would need to learn how to protect himself from polar bears. But when some of those ...

Scientists from the University of Waterloo studying how rubies are formed discovered the residue of a microorganism inside a 2.5 billion-year-old gemstone. The team found a ruby that contained ...

What are the easiest gemstones to find in rocks and creeks? Let’s find out here. Gemstones form under conditions of high pressure and temperatures as minerals within the rocks, or form as independent ...