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ACCELERATED JEWELLERY ASSOCIATE – GEMMOLOGY SPECIALIST (PRELIMINARY LEVEL)
Duration: 90 hours of instruction over 16 weeks (roughly 4 months at one full day a week)
Hours: 9:30 am – 4:30 pm Mondays
Fee: $3900 + $64 textbook + $360 small instrument kit
Deposit with registration: $500
Registration forms: visit forms page
Admission Requirements: Ontario Secondary School Diploma (OSSD) or equivalent (read more)
Passing Grade: 67%
Credential Awarded: Private Career Jewellery Associate-Gemmology Specialist certificate for successful completion.
Course Content:
- The nature of gems
- Fundamental scientific concepts applicable to gem studies
- Crystallography & crystalline substance
- Physical properties of gems, including hardness, specific gravity, cleavage & fracture
- Optics and optical properties of gems, including the nature of light, colour, polarization of light, dichroism, refraction, birefringence, luster, dispersion, spectra
- How to use small gemmological instruments (loupe, dichroscope, Chelsea filter)
- Introduction to synthetic and imitation gemstones
- Gem cutting and cut styles (including diamond)
- Introduction to gem species (including non-mineral gems) – nature & properties
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