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 Post subject: Morion company status?
PostPosted: Wed Nov 28, 2018 10:29 am 
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Anyone have information about the current business status of the Morion company? The website appears to be broken at the moment.


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PostPosted: Fri Nov 30, 2018 11:33 pm 
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That is the web server being toast. If they were done, you would get no response. It is Friday, so I expect no restore of service until Monday.

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Morion seems to go in and out of accessibility.

Has anyone tried *
https://www.gemsngems.com/
https://rusgems.com/

http://www.creativegems.com/PublicDocs/ ... alog-c.pdf

*These links should not be viewed as recommendations, only suggestions.


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Barbra Voltaire wrote:
Morion seems to go in and out of accessibility.

Has anyone tried
https://www.gemsngems.com/
https://rusgems.com/

Creative Gems has an online catalog from 2016:
http://www.creativegems.com/PublicDocs/ ... alog-c.pdf

RusGems is awesome. I've switched to using them a lot, along with Dr Bulatov whenever I see him in Tucson, and Djeva Co. Creative Gems...both Grady and Phyllis passed away :(


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I will delete the creative gems option


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Barbra Voltaire wrote:
I will delete the creative gems option

Creative Gems is still in business. I think other members of the family are managing it now.


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Oh, I'll put it back in.
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Faceting 101 by Arya wrote:
RusGems is awesome.

I use them too for some stuff. I use US Gems for synthetics, as well as a company in China for sapphire (per kilo).

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AlBalmer wrote:
Barbra Voltaire wrote:
I will delete the creative gems option

Creative Gems is still in business. I think other members of the family are managing it now.


Confirmed, material received from Creative within the last two weeks. Does anyone know if Rusgems exhibits at Tucson? Are they wholesale only or also at general public shows there?


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ehomme wrote:
Does anyone know if Rusgems exhibits at Tucson? Are they wholesale only or also at general public shows there?

They have a booth at JOGS every year. They also keep all kinds of special goodies behind the desk too, like synthetic vanadium chrysoberyl, Czochralski blue sapphire and hydrothermal blue sapphire, synthetic cobalt forsterite ("tanzanion"), and a very radioactive red-pink spinel.


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I used this company and bought a kilo of pink sapphire. It was pretty easy and inexpensive.

https://starsgem.en.made-in-china.com/p ... log-1.html

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gsellis wrote:
I used this company and bought a kilo of pink sapphire. It was pretty easy and inexpensive.



https://starsgem.en.made-in-china.com/p ... log-1.html[/quote]


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I'll second the recommendation for RusGems. I went to their booth at JOGS this year and picked up a couple boules of lab padparadscha sapphire. And am currently buying some hydrothermal emerald from them.

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