Every step of the way, from raw, freshly-mined quartz crystal to mil-spec engineered crystal units, these minerals are sorted, inspected, verified, cross-checked, and so on. Before any cutting ...

Almost all of the quartz needed for these components was harvested from natural crystals, mostly from Brazil and the quarries in Arkansas, from which raw slabs were painstakingly cut, polished ...

The Gem Faire returned to the Scottish Rite Masonic Center in Sacramento on Friday for its 35th year, bringing more than 75 of the country’s foremost jewelers, crystal dealers and beaders ...