Australia's longest running pearl farm has enjoyed a rare moment this week — opening up a pearl shell to discover two natural pearls. "The industry thinking is that one in every 10,000 shells might ...

Oysters are the main producers of pearls, but clams and mussels can also create them. Pearls form when oysters secrete layers of nacre around irritants. There are natural and cultured pearls, with ...

GEMS, precious stones and metals are mostly mined from Earth. To bring out their beauty, they are cut, cleaned and polished in various ways and a number of times until they attain the perfect shine.

Following is a transcription of the video. Narrator: Pearls have been a symbol of elegance and class for centuries. The Maharajas of India and European queens adorned themselves with pearls, a symbol ...

While conducting excavations on the north Kimberly coast of Western Australia, archaeologists from the University of Wollongong inadvertently stumbled upon an incredibly ancient natural marine pearl — ...