Description
This workshop is focused on the use of various spectroscopy techniques and their main applications in the identification of Gemstones, their treatments, and synthetic counterparts. Unfortunately several of the major issues coming from the latest improvements in Synthetic and treatments cannot be faced by standard instrumentation and require nowadays to every gemologist an update in knowledge and equipment. Vibrational Raman and FTIR, UV-Vis-NIR, photoluminescence, and fluorescence spectroscopy applications to gemology will be described in detail along with their work protocol in the modern gem laboratory. This workshop will provide an overview of the most used techniques and the related gemological applications including hands-on practice about the most critical cases. by using the full array of MAGILabs instrumentation.
Alberto Scarani is a Graduate Gemologist (IGI Antwerp), appraiser of the Chamber of Commerce, and Registered Expert of the Tribunal of Rome. With Mikko Åström founded in 2012 the M&A Gemological Instruments, now Magilabs, a company specialized in manufacturing advanced gemological instruments and developed Raman,/PL, UV-Vis-NIR, FTIR, and Fluorescence spectrometers specifically designed for gemology.
