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| Tuesday, 9-Nov-2010 07:37 |
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Pearl Jewelry - The Story of Pearl Hunters
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As long as pearl jewelry have been known to people, they have been a highly sought commodity for their beauty. It's only in recent times however that the industry has taken the hunt for the perfect pearl to a whole different level. Today, the shiny orbs that we see on in display in jewelry stores have actually almost always been grown in farms.
That's a far cry from the dangerous extraction and collection methods used before the invention of modern technology. In the past, not more than 100 years ago, the only way to retrieve pearls was by diving in lakes, floods and the ocean to pick them up, one at the time. The unfortunate divers who'se job it was to do this, were often poor and lured by the relative large sums they could get. The diver would sometimes have to dive as deep as 100 feet on one single breath of air. In order to preserve air and to stay submerged the longest, the divers would hold on to heavy stones on the way down.
Naturally, this dangerous activity was reserved for the desperate or the powerless - in many cases slaves or extremely poor peasents. Today, this method is all but obsolete in most places of the world. The cheaper cultured pearls have become popular and are many times the only pearls available to the consumer.
There are however still a few isolated areas that practice this old art of pearl diving. Some of the finest natural pearl speciments come from the gulf of Bahrain. Here, divers still risk their health to retrieve what are considered the top of the crop in the world. In fact, Bahrain wants no part of the sale of cultured pearls, banned from trade. Bahrain is one of the few places on earth that does an active job in trying to preserve the natural habitat and waters from pollution.
It's an interesting story and one that continues to fascinate buyers around the world. Somehow, the beauty of the pearl grows when it's been retrieved from the depth of the ocean.
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| Tuesday, 9-Nov-2010 06:27 |
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Buying Pearl Jewelry Without Being Ripped Off
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Buying pearl jewelry can be fun, exciting and confusing. Whether you're considering a gift of pearl jewelry for someone special or as a treat for yourself, take some time to learn the terms used in the industry. Here's some information to help you get the best quality pearl jewelry for your money, whether you're shopping in a traditional brick and mortar store or online.
Pearls
Natural or real pearls are made by oysters and other mollusks. Cultured pearls also are grown by mollusks, but with human intervention; that is, an irritant introduced into the shells causes a pearl to grow. Imitation pearls are man-made with glass, plastic, or organic materials.
Because natural pearls are very rare, most pearls used in jewelry are either cultured or imitation pearls. Cultured pearls, because they are made by oysters or mollusks, usually are more expensive than imitation pears. A cultured pearl's value is largely based on its size, usually stated in millimeters, and the quality of its nacre coating, which give it luster. Jewelers should tell your if the pearls are cultured or imitation. Some black, bronze, gold, purple, blue and orange pearls, whether natural or cultured, occur that way in nature; some, however, are dyed through various processes. Jewelers should tell you whether the colored pearls are naturally colored, dyed or irradiated.
Clams, oysters, mussels and many other mollusks with limy shells are known to produce pearls. But very few kinds yield gem pearls of jeweler's quality. The pearl is an abnormal growth of mother-of-pearl, or nacre, imbedded in the soft bodies of these shellfish. It is built up, layer upon layer, in the same way as nacre is added to the lining of the growing shell and always has the same color and luster. For example, over the country, hundreds of good-sized pearls are found each year in the oysters we eat. Unfortunately these have no commercial value regardless of whether they have been cooked or not because they are dull opaque white or purple like the shell of the parent oyster. In recent times almost all pearls of gem quality come from the oriental pearl oyster which has a bright shimmering translucent nacre.
A pearl starts growing when some irritating foreign substance such as a sand grain, bit of mud, parasite or other object becomes lodged i
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| Tuesday, 17-Nov-2009 01:24 |
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The United Nations estimates that roughly 20 to 50 million tons of e-waste are generated worldwide each year, comprising more than five per cent of all municipal solid waste. Mobile phones game machines contain inorganic materials, metals and plastic that can be recycled as part of the sustainable e-waste management. “The battery is removed from the handset and metals like gold, titanium and copper can be reused once they are treated. “The plastic can be reused to make traffic cones and park benches. It is important for people to realise that up to 80 per cent of the device can be recycled,” said Ranta-aho. A UAE resident has more than two mobile phones on average but freshwater pearl jewelry use only one. Recycling just one unused phone of all people can save nearly 80,000 tonnes of raw materials. EnviroFone, a mobile phone and e-waste collection campaign by cultured pearl jewelry etisalat, collected 40,000 mobile phones and 23 tonnes of other electronic wastes in the UAE in the beginning of this year. In 2008, 200,000 mobile phones and 52 tonnes of e-waste were collected.
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| Tuesday, 17-Nov-2009 01:23 |
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mobile phones on average
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The United Nations estimates that roughly 20 to 50 million tons of e-waste are generated worldwide each year, comprising more than pearl jewelry five per cent of all municipal solid waste. Mobile phones contain inorganic materials, metals and plastic that pearl earrings can be recycled as part of the sustainable e-waste management. “The battery is removed from the handset and metals like gold, titanium and copper can be reused once they are treated. “The plastic can be reused to make traffic cones and park benches. It is important for people to realise that wheat pearl up to 80 per cent of the device can be recycled,” said Ranta-aho. A UAE resident has more than two mobile phones on pearl jewelry wholesale average but use only one. Recycling just one unused phone of all people can save nearly 80,000 tonnes of raw materials. EnviroFone, a mobile phone and e-waste collection campaign pearl earrings by etisalat, collected 40,000 mobile phones and 23 tonnes of other electronic wastes in the UAE in the wholesale pearl earrings beginning of this year. In 2008, 200,000 mobile phones and 52 tonnes of e-waste were collected.
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| Tuesday, 17-Nov-2009 01:20 |
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women MPs because they
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Kuwait’s constitutional court on Wednesday rejected a petition brought by four voters to declare invalid the election of two pearl jewelry women MPs because they refuse game machines to wear the hijab headscarf. The pearl necklace decision of the court, whose rulings are final, was announced to reporters by the chairman of the court, Yussef Ghanam Al Rashid. Two of the freshwater pearl jewelry four women who became Kuwait’s first female MPs in May refuse to wear the hijab, which has also been spurned by the pearl jewelry wholesale only woman appointed as a minister in the Kuwaiti government following the May election. The voters said the two MPs had flouted a clause in an cultured pearl jewelry election law stipulating that women voters and candidates must comply with Islamic Sharia regulations, including wearing the hijab.
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| Tuesday, 17-Nov-2009 01:18 |
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Khaled Al Adwah a winner after finding
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Explaining its decision in a written verdict, the court said the election law fails to specify the type of regulations christmas gift women must adhere to or whether that pearl jewelry included wearing the hijab. It also pointed out that the Kuwaiti constitution, which is higher than any law, guarantees personal freedom and freedom of faith and does not discriminate between people over their religion or sex. The emirate’s fatwa department, which issues religious edicts, ruled in early October that Muslim women must wear the hijab in line with Islamic sharia law. Islamist MPs are demanding the authorities enforce the fatwa, but wheat pearl their liberal colleagues say it is non-binding, insisting the rule of law and the constitution should be the only points of reference. Kuwait does not enforce any dress code on women among the general public, because of the constitutional guarantee of christmas gifts personal freedom. The constitutional court also scrapped the election of MP Badi Al Dossari and declared former candidate pearl earrings Khaled Al Adwah a winner after finding mathematical errors in calculations of the number of votes they got in the Ma y christmas jewelry elections. After re-calculating the votes, the court said it found that Adwah had secured more votes than Dossari. The verdict does not change the composition of the house, as both men are tribal representatives.
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