Courses
- Rough and polished diamond course
- Diamond deposits, mining process;
- Morphology of rough diamonds;
- Sorting and rough diamond pricing;
- Diamond properties;
- Diamond grading system – clarity, color, cut, and carat weight;
- Laboratory-grown diamonds, treatments, and simulants;
- Diamond reports.
- Colored stones course
- Basic terms in Gemology science, crystalline and amorphous solid;
- Symmetry, physical and chemical properties of crystals;
- Gemological equipment;
- Grading factors affecting gemstone quality and value;
- Corundum (ruby and sapphire), beryl (emerald, aquamarine, heliodor), spinel, garnets, topaz, tourmaline, zircon, peridot, quartz, iolite, and opal identification and grading;
- Inclusions in natural and synthetic colored stones;
- Treatments, synthetics, and simulants;
- Reports.