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...The 900-page tome is organised like a museum with distinct areas of interest....
...that today’s major mineral players include Salim Eddé, whose collection opened Beirut’s Mineral Museum (MIM) in 2013, and Guy Laliberté, founder of Cirque du Soleil....
...FG cookbookla.com The Courtyard Dairy, Yorkshire A stone barn in the Yorkshire Dales is the perfect setting for this renowned cheese shop, café and museum....
...The best book I’ve read in the past year is Bulgari: The Perfume of Gems, a wonderful coffee-table book about the story behind the house’s jewels and fragrances....
...This year, steered by a tour operator called The Explorations Company, I succeeded: it’s called One Forty Eight and it’s a gem....
...obsessive passion for gems and minerals that infuses the event....
...More than two centuries old, according to its owners, it sits amid architectural gems in the old Islamic heart of the city....
..., precious vessels, gems and intaglios....
...Growing up, he spent a lot of time at the Met and the Natural History Museum, looking at the metals and minerals galleries....
...Birds feature prominently among the exhibits although, as with the minerals, the museum has avoided showy specimens, such as birds of paradise, in favour of avian history....
...Place minerals containing carbon approximately 150 km below the surface of the earth. Apply high temperature and intense pressure; wait for between 1bn and 3bn years....
...Some people may be trying to buy an engagement ring—after all, Forty-seventh Street is the nation’s premier market for gems....
...There is only one way to find out for sure, apart from selling the jewel as a museum specimen. Someone will have to cut it up....
...coins, minerals, scientific instruments, ethnographic items (including an Egyptian mummy) and much more....
...(One is on view at the Yorkshire Museum’s Constantine the Great exhibition, until October 29.) Displaying the gems is important to this collector....
...They were using Montana sapphires, turquoise and fire opals from Mexico, tourmaline from Maine, pearls from America’s rivers....
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