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GIA announces GemPassbook, India alumni service

9/8/2009 3:09:43 PM

Carlsbad, Calif.--The Gemological Institute of America (GIA) recently announced a number of new initiatives, including a GIA GemPassbook and a Business Excellence Series for its GIA India alumni.

The GIA's new "GIA GemPassbook" is now available for the advance purchase of two of the institute's colored-stone identification services: the GIA Identification Report and the GIA Origin Report.

Each GemPassbook contains 50 pre-paid GIA GemPasses redeemable for identification or country-of-origin services. Identification GemPasses will be priced at $50 each, while Origin GemPasses passes will carry a $100 fee. Each GIA GemPass is valid for one service per stone, regardless of gemstone size.

GemPassbooks can be purchased and redeemed at GIA Laboratories in New York, Carlsbad or Bangkok, Thailand.

"We hope our new GemPassbooks will make GIA identification services more affordable and accessible to the colored-stone industry," GIA Laboratory and Research Senior Vice President Tom Moses said in a media release. "GIA GemPasses are also transferable, meaning our clients can extend these savings to their customers."

GIA Identification Reports provide a detailed assessment of any type of gem material and include identifying characteristics such as color, transparency, shape, cut, dimensions, weight and a color photo of the gem. A report also states whether or not the material is natural or synthetic, and whether or not it has been treated to enhance its appearance.

A GIA Origin Report, available only for ruby, sapphire, emerald and tourmaline, includes all the details of a GIA Identification Report, plus an opinion on country of origin.

For more information, contact Shwe-war Yee at (212) 221-5858 ext. 3145 or syee@gia.edu, or visit the GIA's Web site, GIA.edu.

GIA India has launched a "Business Excellence Series" for its alumni.

The new series will host discussions and seminars focused on providing opportunities to the alumni to network and communicate. This will help create an environment where GIA India Alumni can learn and share their experiences so they can take their careers and businesses to the next level and encourage even greater growth in the industry.

There are more than 2,000 GIA graduates in India--with more than 50 percent in Mumbai--the majority of which are from the gem and jewelry industry, according to Manoj Singhania, director of GIA India Education.

"The Mumbai alumni chapter is very active, and over the past year, it has launched several initiatives to make the Mumbai alumni network even more vibrant and meaningful," Singhania said in a media release. "We are also making concentrated efforts to energize other GIA Alumni chapters in India, such as those in Chennai, Hyderabad, Kochi, Delhi and Jaipur."

For more information, visit GIA India's Web site, GIAIndia.in.

In other GIA news, GIA Korea has announced that Graduate Gemologist Guerina Yoo has been selected as one of the top four finalists in the Hoge Raad voor Diamant (HRD) Awards.

Yoo's piece, along with those of the other finalists and winner of the contest, will be part of the HRD Awards Collection 2009 exhibit, which will be on view at the Antwerp Diamond Museum starting in September, then displayed in eight other countries throughout 2010.

The HRD Awards contest is organized by the Antwerp World Diamond Centre as a forum for young jewelry designers to encourage creativity and design excellence in contemporary diamond jewelry. The winner and finalists were announced in June; they were selected from 1,089 designs prepared by 654 artists from 40 countries. All the jewelry pieces submitted to the competition had to portray a fairytale theme, and the winners were chosen for the artist's excellence, innovation, enthusiasm and craftsmanship.

Yoo created a hairpiece based upon the Korean fairy tale "The Woodsman and the Fairy." Korean brides' hair accessories are usually made of yellow gold, but Yoo chose dark bamboo to depict a sad girl forced to marry. The veil attached to the bamboo stick symbolizes a robe of feathers, set with 506 brilliant-cut diamonds, with a total weight of 15.62 carats.

"We are extremely proud of Yoo for receiving this recognition," Seung Hae-Moon, GIA Education managing director of South Pacific Asia, said in a media release. "For her creative piece to be selected from more than a thousand other designs from all over the world is a testament to how the institute's students help set the standard of excellence on a global level."

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