This website is home for "Travel addicted gemologist" Vincent Pardieu (B.Sc., GGA, G.G.) and his regular traveling companions like David Bright (A.G.), Jean Baptiste Senoble (A.G.), Richard W. Hughes (A.G.), and Guillaume Soubiraa.
We are gemologists (gemmologists) sharing a passion for gemology (gemmology), gem people and traveling.
With our field trips to gemstone mines and gem markets around the world, we hope to make you share our passion for internet, photography, gems and our admiration for the gem people bringing gemstones from the ground to jewelry.
We expect to share with you our passion for beauty: From the gems external beauty to the intimate beauty of gemstone inclusions, from gem lore to the mines, the people and the lansdcapes gems origin from.

We also invite you to join us on some gemological forums we are active in as they are convenient tools to get rapid answers to your questions.
Apr. 2008: J.B. Senoble and V. Pardieu visit to the new Winza ruby and sapphire deposit in Central Tanzania.
Dec. 2007: Kham Vannaxay, C. Dunaigre and V. Pardieu visit to Mergui cultured south sea pearl farms in Burma (Myanmar).
Oct. 2007: R.W. Hughes, G. Soubiraa, M. Rogers, W. and M. Chitty, P. Brunot and V. Pardieu expedition to Kenya and Tanzania (Part 1, Part 2)
Jun. to Aug. 2006: V. Pardieu and G. Soubiraa ruby, spinel and emerald field trip to Central Asia: Pakistan, Afghanistan, Tajikistan and China.
Apr to Sep 2005: V. Pardieu and J.B. Senoble expeditions to Thailand, Burma, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Sri Lanka, Madagascar, Kenya and Tanzania.
 
Pakistan: From Peshawar to Kashmir.
Afghanistan: Land of beautiful gems and people.
Tajikistan: Gems from the Pamirs.
China: Emeralds on the silk road.

Colombia: The green fever Experience

Myanmar (Burma): Traveling to the gem Heaven.

Cambodia : Adventures in Pailin.
Laos: Gem Cruise on the Mekhong.
Vietnam: A field trip we will not forget!
Sri Lanka (Ceylon): Visit to the gem Island.
Madagascar: Exploration of the new gem giant.
  Kenya: A gemstone safari.
  Tanzania: The East African gem safari.
 
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AIGS student group visit a miner on a Volcano near Pailin Crystal and silk in Mogok sapphire
Field Trip Photo Gallery
Inclusion Photo Gallery

Some questions to ask about:
gems, gemology, fieldtrips,
minerals, jade or jewelry?
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Discover fieldgemology newsletter:
Number 01: Sept 2006

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Read also Online:
Madagascar trilogy
(Colored Stone Magazine):
Part 1: Jan/Feb 2006 issue
Part 2: Mar/Apr 2006 issue
Part 3: Jul/Aug 2006 issue

ICA InColor articles:

Spinel, (V.P with R.W.Hughes).
"Spinel, the resurection of a Classic"
"Winza, Tanzania (J.B. Senoble)
"An expedition to Tanzania's new ruby deposit in Winza"
Tajikistan (V.Pardieu)
"Gems from the roof of the world"

AIGS Lab Pdf (2005):
Lead glass filled rubies

Special THANKS for their support for our field expeditions since 2005:



Some books about gemology we can recommend:

Recommended institutes where we studied gemology in Thailand :

Recommended Advanced Gemological Courses:



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Important Note: Vincent Pardieu is an employee of GIA (Gemological Institute of America) Laboratory Bangkok since Dec 2008. Any views expressed on this website - and in particular any views expressed by Vincent Pardieu - are the authors' opinions and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of GIA or GIA Laboratory Bangkok. GIA takes no responsibility and assumes no liability for any content on this website nor is GIA liable for any mistakes or omissions you may encounter. GIA is in particular not screening, editing or monitoring the content on this website and has no possibility to remove, screen or edit any content.